Asus ROG Ally Preorders Are Live Now

Here is a review that compares the device to the Steam Deck. Seems like they weren't successful at a seamless console-like experience, technical knowledge is required, buttons feel cheap and stick, disc shaped d-pad, only 2 back buttons, sometimes the controller buttons stop responding and software needs to be reset, games aren't optimized for this like they are for the Steam Deck, convenient UI that controls advanced hardware features is missing, battery life is "horrible", add-on GPU is not recommended. Performance mode for ROG Ally only works when power adapter is plugged in, not available untethered. But out of all the Windows handhelds apparently this one is the best.

How does this cost nearly 1.5x as a PS5?

So does this offer Epic Games, Steam, etc?

I think it's a good idea, but it will have major issues just like, or even more so than Gaming Laptops. Because of it's small size. No thanks, i'd take a steam deck, i mean 8.6 teraflops in something this size? Uhh NO. That's more than the card in my Desktop.

Asus is a trash company.

ROG ALLY supporting GamePass right out of the box it's a huge deal maker.

It's practically a superior Xbox handheld over the SteamDeck.

I am not going to trash this new device as I have yet seen what it can do and I do have the Steam Deck and can talk about that. Yes, the battery life is not the greatest, but it can play most games in my library and I did not expect it to play every game and achieve greatness that can be achieved by playing on a PC as it cannot have all the bells and whistles but at least it is close. I am interested in this as well but rather wait and see how well it can do Steam on it for if does not go well, I am not paying twice for the same programs as my Steam library is very large. However, if I was to buy this, I can use both.

That battery life is so bad.

If they can get this thing out at $499, I think it has real chance to grow the portable PC gaming market. But seriously doubt it'll come at that price. Probably more like $700 would be my guess. Even so, that would be a significant drop in price for a device that seems like it's trying to represent a more high end version of the portable PC gaming device vs something like the Aya Neo which came in a $1k plus. So depending on it's price, it'll reveal where the market is really at with devices like this.

Valve really got the price/performance right, plus the custom OS+interface, Deck Verified program, and developers actually targeting the device for performance and compatibility.

The competition just won't be able to measure up to that complete package.

People keep calling these, 'competition for Steam Deck', but it's Nintendo's 3rd party software sales which are going to be the most affected now that these handheld PC's exist. Nintendo handhelds are basically going to be relegated to only being used for Nintendo exclusive IP's, and even then, you can emulate most of those on these devices as well.

We're going to get to a point where one day if you want a game like Animal Crossing, Metroid, Pokémon, Mario Kart, etc, you won't neccessarily even need to buy a Nintendo handheld, because there will be multiplatform alternatives, which you can play on devices like these. And when that happens, I honestly think it will be time for Nintendo to start thinking about going 3rd party.