The best handheld you say?! Looooool! Tell that to the ROG Ally!
And I prefer the Legion Go for the larger screen and detachable controllers, including one usable as a mouse for FPS (Asus Rog's variable refresh rate is better than my Legion Go's). I prefer both, assuming they're running Windows and not Steam OS, over the Steam Deck.
I appreciate and respect that the Steam Deck helped usher in this portable gaming category, but I resent Steam OS as the cheap pirate-like, barely legal, attack on Microsoft that defines it for me. As a Microsoft fan-site, covering this device with Steam OS with praise is OK (like praising the Samsung Galaxy Fold while MS was still selling the Duo would have been OK), but it should at least include some commentary in the context of what it means to Microsoft and Windows, just like Windows Central would typically do with a big new Apple or Google innovation.
Steam OS is a competitive threat to Microsoft's Windows OS for the gaming community. Maybe Richard Devine thinks Steam OS is better for gaming. Fine (and plenty of good arguments for what it gets right that MS and Windows and the MS Store get wrong). But as a Microsoft and Windows site, please cover it in the proper context, like including what MS needs to do to stay ahead or how it will affect MS market share, or do a point counterpart debate with another Windows Central writer who disagrees. The Steam Deck not a new Xbox or Alienware laptop that runs MS software. The fact that a user can add Windows doesn't alter that is a competing platform intended, even according to the words of Valve's CEO, to attack and compete with Microsoft.
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