With the discharge of the Steam Deck OLED final 12 months, Valve retains its place as the pinnacle honcho of recent handheld PC know-how. Nonetheless, the market is beginning to develop into crowded with alternate options, and another tech agency is throwing its hat into the ring.

As noticed by The Verge, it appears to be like as if multinational IT company MSI will probably be releasing its personal Steam Deck competitor. That’s based on leaked pictures, at the least. In latest social media posts (initially reported by Videocardz), the corporate uploaded a teaser clip, exhibiting one thing is actually inbound from the laptop computer producer.

There’s additionally a message saying {that a} “entire new breed of MSI dragon is coming,” in addition to directions for us to “get a grip and keep tuned.” That final positively hints at a handheld. In any case, particulars will probably be revealed at CES 2024 – judging by the hashtags – which begins subsequent week.

Deck the halls with – hmm, bit late for that pun

It appears to be like as if this system – mentioned to be known as “Claw” – will run with an Intel Meteor Lake processor. Whether or not that is correct or not can’t be mentioned at this stage, however the truth that Intel commented underneath MSI’s Twitter tease hints that the tech big is concerned.

We’ve already seen the discharge of the Lenovo Legion GO, which got here out final November, plus, the ASUS ROG Ally earlier than that. Each of those have evidently been desirous to muscle in on the transportable gaming market. Oh, additionally there’s Sony’s Mission Q, which got here out just lately, however that’s extra in-line with console gaming than with PC.

No matter MSI has up its sleeve, it’s clearly value dropping hints about simply earlier than CES. And this latest leak appears to solely cement the rumor. We’ll know extra about it someday subsequent week, but it surely’s virtually sure that that Valve may have one other rival to deal with.