MSI Claw announced with Intel Core Ultra CPU and Arc graphics

The MSI Claw has been officially announced at CES 2024 and it's entirely powered by Intel. No pricing or release date has been revealed yet.

[shadowhaxor]

I've been following this for a while, and I'm looking forward to seeing how this does in a world of AMD-powered handheld gaming PCs.

[franwex]

Same. I’ll be observing too. My guess is that most games would be optimized for AMD. But let’s see what happens. More options is always better.

[cammers1995]

Meh I'll stick to my steam deck. All these copycats popped up. Ew

[ocelot07]

As much as I love the steam deck. GPD where doing handheld pc consoles for a few years and where fairly good.

Valve simply made handheld pc gaming cool on name online.

[Inverno]

Well they also made it affordable, cause those GPD handhelds were in the thousands when I first saw em years back. I'd also argue that Linux, and steam os is a better alternative to having windows. The ease of a console like experience with the option of a more traditional PC os with a lot of user made apps is pretty great.

[ocelot07]

@inverno

I 100% agree with you. I love how far Linux has came in the last few years when it comes to gaming. I really hope we get to the point where all future games have a Linux version. I would gladly ditch windows at that point.

[Eonjay]

Competition though...

[SegaSaturn669]

I love my steamdeck but there are times when I need to hop onto windows.

I beat banner saga 1 and the moving the data is a bit more complicated via SD.

So I installed BS1+2 on Windows PC, then the savedata auto transferred to deck.

I'd love a device that could boot steamos and win

[ocelot07]

You can dualboot windows and steam os on steam deck you can even do that on a desktop/laptop.

[SPEAKxTHExTRUTH]

I’ll stick with my ROG it does everything I need and more.

[shadowhaxor]

I just wished that the ROG Ally had a bigger screen. Also, how is someone going to downvote someone, simply because they said they were happy with their purchase?

Madness.

[SPEAKxTHExTRUTH]

It’s N4G you can be downvoted just for saying good morning.

[jjb1981]

Gabe is laughing all the way to the bank.

[Good-Smurf]

All Intel PC still have a lot to prove.
And It would be funny that if it finally hit its stride with Handheld gaming PC instead on Desktop.
MSI obvioisly have to priced this right or it could fail as it doesn't have AMD safe cushion to fall back to.
Buying into All Intel hardware is a still big ask and high risk investment to many people.

[shadowhaxor]

This. Intel is the newcomer to the scene, and this new SoC has many eyes on it .Hardware-wise, it does have a leg up on the current AMD SoCs we see in most handhelds. XeSS is definitely better than AMD's FSR tech.

It's going to be interesting.

As for the Steam Deck, it's most definitely a win the Valve needed, seeing how it fell flat on its face when it tried to pitch SteamOS so many years ago. Does anyone remember the Steam Machines? Eh... what a time.