Acer’s Nitro Blaze Link is a handheld for streaming PC games, not a portable PC pretending to do it all.
Acer announced the Nitro Blaze Link ahead of Computex, with a planned Q4 2026 launch. The company describes it as a “streaming-first handheld and companion device,” which is marketing-speak for: your PC does the heavy lifting. The device has a 7-inch 1920 x 1200 display, Wi-Fi 6, 1GB of LPDDR4 RAM, and 8GB of eMMC storage. Those specs are far below what you would expect from a handheld meant to run modern games locally, and that appears to be the point.
The useful distinction is that Acer is not chasing the Steam Deck here. It is closer to a PlayStation Portal for a gaming PC: a screen, controls, and wireless connection wrapped into one device. That can work if the stream is stable and the price makes sense, but the specs also make the product harder to judge without knowing the full software experience.
There is precedent, and not all of it is flattering. Logitech tried a similar idea with the Android-based G Cloud, which launched at $350 with 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage. It was a hard sell then, because dedicated streaming handhelds live or die on convenience, latency, and price — not the spec sheet they mostly avoid having.