TL;DR
- Acer has announced its new Nitro Blaze Link gaming device.
- The low-power device is designed to stream PC games locally over Wi-Fi.
- Pricing and availability details are unknown, but the device’s lightweight features will ideally mean it will be affordable.
Acer’s announced a new gaming handheld that could save you paying an arm and a leg the newly expensive Steam Deck — if you have a gaming PC you don’t have, anyway. The new Acer Nitro Blaze Link is a “stream one” device with a form factor similar to other modern gaming hardware, but designed to work with a PC to stream gameplay locally over Wi-Fi.
One pound Nitro Blaze Link It comes with a 7″, 1200p touchscreen and Wi-Fi 6. Acer says the new handset is aimed at “gamers who demand performance and value,” though we don’t yet know how much it will cost.
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From a powerful mainframe to a lighter handheld, streaming a game locally isn’t a new idea. As described, Nitro Blaze Link is very similar to Sony’s PlayStation Portal, which similarly streams gameplay from a local PlayStation 5 over Wi-Fi. Like this device, the Blaze Link doesn’t seem to do much on its own: see CNET, The handset runs a version of Linux and comes with only one gigabyte of RAM, so it’s hard to imagine running any games on the handset itself.
We don’t know exactly when the Nitro Blaze Link will be available; Acer plans to release it in the fourth quarter of the year. It’s also yet to be priced, but given that it’s a relatively low-powered device without a lot of storage, it should ideally survive the worst of the tech inflation we’ve seen lately.
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