ASUS ROG Xbox Ally handhelds announced
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- 09 Jun 2025
Anonymous, 09 Jun 2025What are you on about? This is just cloud gaming, not nativ... moreIt's a Windows handheld PCs. You can natively run Windows games and applications on it. You can run Microsoft Excel on it.
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- Anonymous
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- 09 Jun 2025
justasmile, 09 Jun 2025This is called Xbox for a reason, I mean full windows OSIt's a full Windows OS with Xbox user interface and probably some services disabled. Microsoft states that the OS is Windows 11 Home.
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- Anonymous
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- 09 Jun 2025
rizki1, 09 Jun 2025This is how PS Portal should be, Sony could team up with Ac... moreI don't see why Sony should release a Windows handheld PC. Microsoft is a third-party publisher with its own consoles, so it supports Sony, Nintendo, and PC. As for the price, the Asus ROG Xbox Ally will probably be about $1,000 or higher.
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- 09 Jun 2025
Anonymous, 09 Jun 2025It's a Windows handheld PC. Also, it definitely won�... moreThis is called Xbox for a reason, I mean full windows OS
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- 09 Jun 2025
Akio, 09 Jun 2025They should've used strix point CPUs z2 ai extreme is literally just a strix point cpu with different name
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- 09 Jun 2025
Anonymous, 09 Jun 2025What are you on about? This is just cloud gaming, not nativ... moreCooler attached to mobile phone working differently to direct blower to the heatpipes and blow it via exhaust chamber.
To my understanding the cloud is optional, meanwhile we can run natively, but with some limitations (resolution, graph quality, fake frames,...).
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- Anonymous
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- 09 Jun 2025
Fire Smeller, 09 Jun 2025100 % I would rather get a last year flagship laptop period.If I don't understand a product, then I just assume it's not for me.
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- 09 Jun 2025
Leanzazzy, 09 Jun 2025I don't understand who the market demographic for this... moreThere is a doctor in one of my gaming community. He travels every weekend to his hometown and it takes 6+ hours or so. He plays with a steam deck plugged to a 65w powerbank. It's not a problem since he's sitting on the bus all the time.
This is no different from using Switch or smartphones while plugged in with a power ank inside the bag.
Same with laptops that are NOT USED FOR GAMING using only their battery. So what if it needs to plug in when the laptop buyer doesn't want to lug around a desktop lol,
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- 09 Jun 2025
Leanzazzy, 09 Jun 2025I don't understand who the market demographic for this... more100 %
I would rather get a last year flagship laptop period.
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- Anonymous
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- 09 Jun 2025
Leanzazzy, 09 Jun 2025I don't understand who the market demographic for this... moreSome people wanna play games on bed for only 1-2h a day
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- Anonymous
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- 09 Jun 2025
Anonymous, 09 Jun 2025What are you on about? This is just cloud gaming, not nativ... moreNo? What are you talking about? Ofc its native. Yes, the mid range graphical games may only run on 480p upscaled 30fps only for 1.5h. but it is native gaming
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- Akio
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- 09 Jun 2025
They should've used strix point CPUs
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- Anonymous
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- 09 Jun 2025
MasEnha, 09 Jun 2025Games on phones relatively limited. People wants more AA or... moreWhat are you on about? This is just cloud gaming, not native gaming. And complaining about temps of mobile phones when you could just slap on coolers on them.
These things are just unnecessary hardware when they're incapable of native gaming.
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- 09 Jun 2025
Leanzazzy, 09 Jun 2025I don't understand who the market demographic for this... moreNew elites deliver better performance than windows handhelds even after winlators. It was tested, you can check.
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- 09 Jun 2025
Ahahah they know how snapdragon 8 elite mobile version beats all of them even after the crippling emulator. Which cuts maybe %30 performance to winlator but still manages to outperform windows based handhelds.
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- rizki1
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- 09 Jun 2025
This is how PS Portal should be, Sony could team up with Acer, Lenovo, MSI or others to make a handheld to compete with this ROG.
Since this is Asus I'm guessing it will cost $999 for Ally X.
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- Anonymous
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- 09 Jun 2025
OfficialTRider, 09 Jun 2025The OS is Windows Xbox edition. This is not even a full bl... moreSource?
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- OfficialTRider
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- 09 Jun 2025
The OS is Windows Xbox edition.
This is not even a full blown windows. They've literally chopped of windows so that it uses 2GB RAM at idle instead of the usual 4GB.
And their goal is to trim the idle RAM usage to 1.5GB before release. That's trimming a lot of Windows processes which will increase boot time and gaming performance and battery life significantly.
This one can't even run normal Windows while in handheld mode.
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- Anonymous
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- 09 Jun 2025
Hemedans, 09 Jun 2025What Nintendo data you talked about? Over 80% of Nintendo u... moreFound an article: https://www.pcmag.com/news/nintendo-reveals-switch-players-favor-handheld-mode
Primary TV mode is about 18%, primary tabletop/handheld mode is about 30%, and hybrid is about 50%.
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- 09 Jun 2025
Leanzazzy, 09 Jun 2025I don't understand who the market demographic for this... moreGames on phones relatively limited. People wants more AA or AAA games in portable. In fact, the handheld have active cooling as if in laptop despite still not enough especially in warm ambiance.
In fact, very few or almost none phones are actually gaming gear.
On the other hands, I agree that's except for gaming PC (or perhaps consoles), it will be burden for portable devices to execute heavy games and will shorthen their lifespan rapidly.