The Gaming Report takes a look at Razer's BlackWidow Chroma mechancial gaming keyboard.
Bundled with a 90-day Xbox Game Pass Ultimate trial, the ASUS ROG Ally is powered by a custom AMD Ryzen Z1 APU and runs on Windows 11. Screenshots of the handheld from all angles have also been released.
Uninstall it and add Steam OS. That being said you get significantly more compatibility with Windows.
On topic, this handheld PC is amazing in all aspects, but that price is going to be bare minimum $1000 - $1500, so while performance-wise it crushes Steam Deck in every way, and when docked with a good power source and effectively be a 1080p gaming PC, I'll stick to my $400 Steam Deck on the go and my consoles or actual Gaming PC.
Still amazing tech.
Agreed on all counts. Steam OS on this wouldn't necessarily be a slam dunk, depending on drivers...
Steam has managed to create such a good console-like experience with Steam Deck, while still letting you tweak low level settings like TDP. I can't imagine ASUS getting to that same level of elegance and usability. But it would be easier to access non-steam games
I can't see it being that high. It's gonna flop if so. Most reports have it quite a way under that. I'd guess 700 for the lower and 900 for the higher model.
If it cost that much then thats a hell no for most people. Hell people dont want the Ps vr2 because the price. Price is everything imo, be better to build a pc or have a mini pc at same level and then use steam link or other remote play on a phone or other cheap cloud gaming handheld or whatever.
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If It’s less even better, but they’re likely going to take a large loss on it, especially considering the competitors have lower spaced handheld PCs already in the $700 - $1000 price range using the 680m.
They said it'll be below 1000 actually. Bestbuy selling it too, and I doubt they'd sell something that niche at that price.
Not sure why they haven't announced the price yet though. Guessing they're really trying hard to hit a low price point? I cant see this being lesser than $1000 and compete with the Deck.
Reports are that it might hit around the $900 mark. The May 11 event will be where the pricing and full spec sheet is revealed
Seriously I only see this thing just to put MAME in there , same idea for the Swutch and SteamDeck lol.
This will stomp the SD in emulation though. The lowest SKU is a 6c/12t.
PS3 and Switch emulation which are not quite that good on the SD, should run flawlessly on the Ally.
Ironically enough, where the SD will probably compete is PC games. Because the lowest SKU for the Ally also features a fairly "limited" GPU with only 4 RDNA 3 CU against the SD's 8 RDN2 CU.
The Asus ROG Ally handheld gaming PC announced on April 1 is a genuine product with a powerful custom AMD APU that can run AAA PC titles on the go.
Replies(2)I was confused why neither of the two YouTubers mentioned cost. But it's probably like you said it even more. The steam deck is a great handheld as it does the job for a good gamble of a price. Would I pay 1000+ for the same thing? Probably not, I'd wait it out.
And this is the reason why the Steam Deck is dominating the portable pc's in sales.
That would be pretty insane if they do. But I would be skeptical. As they wouldn't make much profit on software sales unless they use their own store. The steam deck doesn't make Valve money on the hardware, so I do not see Asus selling it for a low price. But there is hope.
The link you sent me the youtuber says "you can't match the $400 bucks the steam deck sells for." Then he goes on to suggest he feels $600 would be ideal.
But asus' words are "very competitive" but what with? Against the steam deck or against other gaming laptops/hand held that are $800+?
At the moment it's too g to be a bait and switch. Get the hype in and drop a $899 price tag.
400 dollars, yeah no chance with what they're offering. Even Valve said the pricing on the Deck was "painful" implying they may not even be breaking even on the Deck but relying on Steam game sales.
The Nintendo Switch OLED - The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom edition carries the Hylian Crest and other imagery from the game. It will be followed a similarly-themed Pro Controller and Carrying Case on May 28.
Replies(1)Man, this looks cool.
The Pro Controller also looks really sweet, shame it's such a badly made controller.
Hmmmm, I bought a Splatoon variant of the Pro controller and its been fantastic. Comfortable to use and amazing battery life, I don't feel like I've heard much negativity about the pro controllers, unlike the joycons.
I don't doubt that you didn't notice the issues with the controller. The vast majority of people don't even know what makes a good controller. But I can tell you that the Switch Pro has many issues, the main ones being the surprisingly bad sticks, that not only have terrible accuracy, range and circularity but are also cheaply made and prone to degradation. And the badly designed d-pad with its tendency to fail diagonals and the worse implementation Nintendo ever made short of the joy-cons "d-pad".
Ahh, I guess you know best Vits, I have only been using controllers since 1982 when I had my Atari 2600 so I don't have as much experience or expertise as you.
I will say that I haven't used the Dpad much but the 100+ hours I used the controller for in my recent replay of Zelda BotW was absolutely great and the controller performed perfectly.
I wish Nintendo would release official joycons like this: https://www.etsy.com/listin...
I just got mine back and they are amazing I love the d-pad, never liked the 4 button's on the left joycon.
I really like the look of the docking station, but I am less keen on the joycons. Overall though, a really nice looking variant.
I wish it was a tad cheaper.
bloody expensive but gorgeous
I looked at one of these when I was upgrading from a rubber dome Razer Anansi to a mechanical. The Blackwidow is nice, but I ended up getting the Corsair K70 RGB with Cherry Brown keys.
The lighting isn't as bright or vivid as the Razer - but in every other way it is far better in my opinion.
I'd not recommend a Blackwidow for mechanical ahead of Ducky or Corsair.