Hello everyone it's SpawnPoint and today we're taking a look at the Logitech G Cloud it's a
handheld gaming console that allows you to play Xbox PlayStation and PC games away from
your setup or get it unboxed and set it up and then go through these specs and how it
performs across the different streaming services I know a few of you wanted to know how it works
with the PlayStation 5 so I will cover that as well now you might be wondering why you'd need
one of these and what the real pros and cons are well I will try and answer those today
but any questions you might have drop those in the comments and I will get back to you
right let's get this opened up and see what's inside the Box Okay so we've got the console
itself and wow this is a lot bigger than I was expecting but it feels really nice and the screen
looks like a great size too which I'm excited to see how the games look and play on it then
we have this little black box which contains a plug and a USBC cable and that's obviously
to charge it and we have some manuals which we all know we're not really going to read
so here it is and first impressions I like the clean white design this looks nice I'm actually
quite like the yellow accents on the buttons and the thumbsticks it's kind of minimal but
still gives us that nod to gaming and you know what looking at this now is probably one of the
nicest looking handhelds that we've seen in terms of the overall design but as for the ergonomics
and feel it feels great in the hands it's pretty well balanced and isn't too heavy or too light I
mean too heavy and it's a pain to hold for those long gaming sessions and too light just makes it
feel cheap looking around there's some subtle Logitech G branding throughout including the
button on the front and the logo on the rear but nothing in your face which is a nice touch when
it comes to setting it up it should only take you two or three minutes to get up and running once
you've connected to your Wi-Fi you just need to go through the on-screen prompts things like signing
into your Google account and accepting the terms and as this is powered by Android you can either
run it in tablets or handheld mode in my opinion though you want to use the handheld mode for the
best experience overall it does come with a handful of apps pre-installed like Xbox cloud
gaming GeForce now and steam link but you can of course download more apps as you need them now one
of the first things I noticed was how nice this seven inch display looked it's bigger than any
phone screen that I've used and for mobile gaming it feels like the perfect size it's got an IPS LCD
which supports full HD and on a screen this size 1080p is more than enough but it is limited to 60
hertz colors are vibrant and the brightness maxes out at 450 nits for indoor use and outdoor on a
cloudy day this is absolutely fine but like with almost every mobile device you're not going to be
able to comfortably use this in direct sunlight that's down to those Reflections but to be honest
I would rather have a glossy screen like this over a matte screen any day and even though we
have physical buttons and controls to use this it's also a touch screen so you can still swipe
around the menus and dashboard using the screen and it also means it will work with those mobile
games that support it as for the controls we have an asymmetrical thumbstick layout which feel like
a great size and are nice and grippy we have the a b X and Y buttons which are firm to press we also
have the d-pad on the left side and two option buttons near the top of the screen most of these
buttons feel like they're in a good position decisions for gaming and nothing feels too far
away when holding it naturally it doesn't feel like you need to stretch to press these buttons
the yellow G button near the bottom acts as the Xbox and the PlayStation button when using those
apps while the home button on the right side that returns you to the gcloud dashboard across the top
there are a set of bumper buttons and triggers marked AirLand R1 and 2. these have very little
travel and are easy enough to press plus they have a very slight grippy texture to it but they
are plastic rather than rubber next to that is a volume button for controlling your audio and a
power switch to either turn it on or off or put it into rest mode now it does come with 64 gigabytes
of storage but there's a Micro SD card slot if you want to expand on that later then across the
bottom we have a 3.5 mil headphone jack and a USBC port for charging so over the last couple of weeks
I have been using this for all of my cloud-based and remote play gaming and from my experience so
far this does fill a specific need so the purpose of the gcloud isn't to replace your PS5 Xbox or PC
is to allow you to play your games away from your TV or your desk for me there are times I either
can't or really don't want to sit at my setup but still fancy jumping on a game sure I could use my
phone with an adapter but the battery life screen size and ergonomics are just better on this this
feels like a pickup and Play device take the Xbox for example game PASS gives you access to a huge
library of games and you can play all of those on here as well so we actually get two different Xbox
apps the first one is Xbox cloud gaming which is essentially Game Pass and the other is Xbox
which is a remote play app this allows you to log in and play games directly from your Xbox instead
and this is useful if you want to play games that are not on Game Pass both options work really
well unsure of how nice the screen looks and how smoothly it plays of course this is all dependent
on your internet connection which you will need in order to connect to these services but playing
games like Forza showed me how there's little to no lag and the controls feel perfect when
driving around then there's PlayStation gaming at the moment PlayStation doesn't offer a streaming
service like Xbox where you can play games from the cloud to any device but what it does
have is PS remote this allows you to play games directly from your PlayStation 4 or PlayStation
5 to a compatible device now although there's the official PS remote app that connects and
works absolutely fine unfortunately you can only control unusual games and PS5 via the touchscreen
the physical buttons are not recognized at all now fortunately there is a workaround for this and
that's by downloading another app called psplay it is a third-party app but once you're logged in
you get full control over the console via the physical buttons on the device and I can say
now this is by far the best remote play experience I've had so far on the PS5 being able to jump into
a game like Star Wars while I'm away from my TV is just awesome it plays smoothly and has little
to no lag and the quality looks great it means if I really wanted to I could play some of the
gaming on my TV then pick up the gcloud and play somewhere else in the house but as mentioned the
PlayStation doesn't offer a Cloud Server so you will be connecting directly to your console and
that means it does need to be powered on to use it but you also don't need to be at home or on the
same Wi-Fi you can remote access it from anywhere as long as you have an internet connection so
another huge service worth mentioning is GeForce now this is nvidia's cloud gaming service that
allows you to stream and play PC games you already own this means you can play games without needing
to ever download them in fact you don't even need to have a PC to play them this doesn't use Remote
Play or rely on a console being left on this lets you stream the game straight to the gcloud
so I jumped on a few different games including cyberpunk and Apex Legends and was impressed by
the instant response on this and like with all of these games there are no updates or waiting for
downloads it's a case of signing in and hitting play this is also the best way to see the Fuller
1080p quality the same goes for shadow which is a full cloud-based PC streaming service essentially
you can run a virtual PC and stream all of your games straight to the device via the shadow app
and the same as before the only limitation is how reliable your internet connection is
so we know how it works with streaming and cloud gaming but what about local gaming well as this
runs on Android you still get access to the Google Play Store that means any mobile games you'd like
to download and play will still work like any other mobile or tablet I downloaded a couple
of games to test out and as you'd expect they played really well it also means I can use this
offline if I wanted to use it with a normal Play Store games but there is one limitation which you
might not realize until you start to play some of those Android games and that's the lack of
remapping support so some games like Call of Duty mobile don't recognize the controller and will
only work via the touchscreen controls now that's not a huge issue except because the controller is
so wide it's actually quite difficult to reach the screen while playing it means if you were
planning on using it with Call of Duty mobile it might not work the way that you intended so draw
in the setup process you can choose between tablet and handheld mode which you can also jump between
via the settings now as this is running Android it means you can essentially use it like any other
Android device with access to the Play Store and the settings and menus for media handheld mode is
overall the cleaner and better choice but it's great that you can swap between the two I know
some others have been using it in tablet mode then adding their own themes so it can be fully
customized that way as for the specs it comes with a Snapdragon 720g processor and 64 gigabytes of
internal storage that might not sound like a lot but as this is a cloud streaming device you won't
be downloading many games to the actual device as mentioned before you can expand this within
micro SD card slot if you needed to it has Wi-Fi 2.4 and 5 gigahertz as well as Bluetooth 5.1 so
along with the inbuilt speakers and a 3.5 mil headphone jack you can use a pair of bluetooth
headphones with it as well as for the battery is rated at over 12 hours of use and for my testing
so far that's pretty spot on in fact I have seen more than 12 hours over the last couple of days
and when I've not been using it I have seen more than a week in standby so the big question is is
it worth buying well the pros aren't it's got a decent screen size great controls it feels nice
and it works with all of the gaming Services you'd want or need to use and that's both cloud and
local gaming this is something I can imagine taking with me on holiday where I know I can
remote play on my PlayStation 5 or jump onto game pass the only real negative for me is the price
for a device which is aimed purely at streaming games I feel is a little expensive it's currently
priced at 330 pounds although there's a limited time offer where you get six months of Xbox game
pass ultimate included that's worth about 65 pounds this would then bring the price down to
around 265 pounds which doesn't seem so bad and not far of what I think it's worth I'd say that's
a lot of console for the money and will fill the gap of gaming away from your setup but what do you
think is this something that you would pick up for your mobile gaming sessions or is there something
else you would choose instead now drop a mobile gaming in the comments and I'll give you a thumbs
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