Logitech and Tencent to Release Cloud Gaming Handheld Console This Year

Logitech and the Chinese Tencent are teaming up to make their own handheld console. The gaming hardware is specifically intended for cloud gaming, but details or specifications are not yet known.

Logitech G, the company’s gaming arm, writes on Twitter that it will collaborate on hardware with the Chinese Tencent Gaming. Tencent is known for, among other things, battle royale game PUBG. The company has opened a mailing list for those interested, but it doesn’t provide any information about the console for the time being.

In a press release Neither Logitech G nor Tencent mention any technical specifications of the handheld. The companies do say that it is ‘a cloud gaming handheld’ that should be on the market later this year. The handheld is “a combination of Logitech’s expertise in hardware and Tencent’s expertise in software services.” The handheld will support various cloud gaming services. The companies cite Xbox Cloud Gaming and Nvidia’s GeForce Now as examples. The press release implies that no games can be installed locally on the device, but that they are only streamed via the cloud.