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The Ayaneo Next II pushes past 3 pounds, 13 inches wide, and costs up to $4,300.
Well, he is technically holding that thing in his hands... Credit: Ayaneo
In 2023, we marveled at the sheer mass of Lenovo’s Legion Go, a 1.88-pound, 11.8-inch-wide monstrosity of a Windows gaming handheld. In 2026, though, Ayaneo unveiled details of its Next II handheld, which puts Lenovo’s big boy to shame while also offering heftier specs and a higher price than most other Windows gaming handhelds.
Let’s focus on the bulk first. The Ayaneo Next II weighs in at a truly wrist-straining 3.14 pounds, making it more than twice as heavy in the hands as the Steam Deck OLED (not to mention 2022’s original Ayaneo Next, which weighed a much more reasonable 1.58 pounds). The absolute unit also measures 13.45 inches wide and 10.3 inches tall, according to Ayaneo’s spec sheet, giving it a footprint approximately 60 percent larger than the Switch 2 (with Joy-Cons attached).
Ayaneo packs some seriously powerful portable PC performance into all that bulk, though. The high-end version of the system sports a Ryzen AI Max+ 395 chipset with 16 Zen5 cores alongside a Radeon 8060S with 40 RDNA3.5 compute units. That should give this massive portable performance comparable to a desktop with an RTX 4060 or a gaming laptop like last year’s high-end ROG Flow Z13.
The Next II sports a massive screen and some adult-sized controls. Credit: Ayaneo
Ayaneo isn’t the first hardware maker to package the Max+ 395 chipset into a Windows gaming handheld; the OneXPlayer OneXfly Apex and GPD Win5 feature essentially the same chipset, the latter with an external battery pack. But the Next II neatly outclasses the (smaller and lighter) competition with a high-end 9.06-inch OLED screen, capable of 2400×1504 resolution, up to 165 Hz refresh rates, and 1,155 nits of brightness.
On the inside, the Next 2 also sports a gargantuan 116 Wh battery, which outclasses other handhelds (and even most laptops) so much that it actually blows past the 100 Wh limit for batteries you can take on an airplane, requiring special documentation to fly. Hopefully, that battery will also help with powering the two “turbo centrifugal fans” and dual vapor chamber “cooling fins” that are designed to make sure the system doesn’t get nuclear hot in your hands
All that power and bulk comes at a price, of course. On the low end, you can downgrade to a slightly weaker Max 385 chipset with 32GB of RAM and 1TB of storage for a high-but-somewhat-reasonable $1,999 (or $1,799 for early bird pre-orders). At the high end, though, a Max+ 395 system with 128GB of RAM and 2TB will set you back $4,299 ($3,499 early bird).
That makes the Ayaneo Next II a product aimed at gaming whales who care more about having the most powerful gaming device than they do about a comfortable form factor or a reasonable price point. For handheld PC gamers who scoff at the size, power, and relative affordability of the Steam Deck, though, the Ayaneo Next II is available for pre-order through Indiegogo ahead of planned shipments to the US this summer.
Well, he is technically holding that thing in his hands... Credit: Ayaneo
In 2023, we marveled at the sheer mass of Lenovo’s Legion Go, a 1.88-pound, 11.8-inch-wide monstrosity of a Windows gaming handheld. In 2026, though, Ayaneo unveiled details of its Next II handheld, which puts Lenovo’s big boy to shame while also offering heftier specs and a higher price than most other Windows gaming handhelds.
Let’s focus on the bulk first. The Ayaneo Next II weighs in at a truly wrist-straining 3.14 pounds, making it more than twice as heavy in the hands as the Steam Deck OLED (not to mention 2022’s original Ayaneo Next, which weighed a much more reasonable 1.58 pounds). The absolute unit also measures 13.45 inches wide and 10.3 inches tall, according to Ayaneo’s spec sheet, giving it a footprint approximately 60 percent larger than the Switch 2 (with Joy-Cons attached).
Ayaneo packs some seriously powerful portable PC performance into all that bulk, though. The high-end version of the system sports a Ryzen AI Max+ 395 chipset with 16 Zen5 cores alongside a Radeon 8060S with 40 RDNA3.5 compute units. That should give this massive portable performance comparable to a desktop with an RTX 4060 or a gaming laptop like last year’s high-end ROG Flow Z13.
The Next II sports a massive screen and some adult-sized controls. Credit: Ayaneo
Ayaneo isn’t the first hardware maker to package the Max+ 395 chipset into a Windows gaming handheld; the OneXPlayer OneXfly Apex and GPD Win5 feature essentially the same chipset, the latter with an external battery pack. But the Next II neatly outclasses the (smaller and lighter) competition with a high-end 9.06-inch OLED screen, capable of 2400×1504 resolution, up to 165 Hz refresh rates, and 1,155 nits of brightness.
On the inside, the Next 2 also sports a gargantuan 116 Wh battery, which outclasses other handhelds (and even most laptops) so much that it actually blows past the 100 Wh limit for batteries you can take on an airplane, requiring special documentation to fly. Hopefully, that battery will also help with powering the two “turbo centrifugal fans” and dual vapor chamber “cooling fins” that are designed to make sure the system doesn’t get nuclear hot in your hands
All that power and bulk comes at a price, of course. On the low end, you can downgrade to a slightly weaker Max 385 chipset with 32GB of RAM and 1TB of storage for a high-but-somewhat-reasonable $1,999 (or $1,799 for early bird pre-orders). At the high end, though, a Max+ 395 system with 128GB of RAM and 2TB will set you back $4,299 ($3,499 early bird).
That makes the Ayaneo Next II a product aimed at gaming whales who care more about having the most powerful gaming device than they do about a comfortable form factor or a reasonable price point. For handheld PC gamers who scoff at the size, power, and relative affordability of the Steam Deck, though, the Ayaneo Next II is available for pre-order through Indiegogo ahead of planned shipments to the US this summer.
