Yeah…but the Steam Decks support is unmatched with the amount of community support yes the Rog has the power but will it have the same amount of support? Only time is gonna tell they both have pros and cons.
@@RainTheUpriser But what do you mean exactly by support? It runs Windows so it doesn't really need to have curated games like the Deck Verification Program.
@@RainTheUpriser But the Steamdeck came out over a year ago, it stands to reason that it has "support". In addition, the Rog Ally uses Windows and if you add to that that it has more power, it is logical that people will prefer it. Your comment sounds like someone who bought the Steam Deck yesterday, and doesn't want to accept that something better came out.
@@alexanderarandaromero7905RogAlly looks awful (like what 15 years old thinks "cool gaming device is". While steam deck costs 400$ and can play the same thing and has a Valve brand behind it with all support.) Also no Trackpads? What the hell..
this Ally is more of a 720p gaming handheld compared to 1080p. with the hardware, it would have been better of as a 720p oled screen.but what do I know, maybe steamdeck 2 will just stick to 720p oled screen with better or same hardware and not go for 1080p cos of battery.
As much as I love it, these handhelds are in DIRE need of better batteries. It kinda defeats the purpose of having a handheld when you have to make sure you have an outlet nearby.
getting a gaming laptop is better then getting a steam deck) steam deck battery ran out so easily I think 1 hour only so waste money of that handheld lamo also gaming lap tops it heat up easily and the blower inside of the gameing laptop will try to spin so fast to make the laptop stop heating but you only can play a steam deck when it's charging.. .
The fact Valve and Asus have entered this market now means it will explode, those crowd funded Chinese companies were certainly onto something with their devices.
The biggest issue for me is the battery life but with the current battery technology there’s not much we can do, the only true workaround is a beefier device but no one wants that, hoping someone releases a battery pack add on for this
Just a small battery can not deal with high graphics games, and therefore using electricity like a pc is the only effective way. However, this could lead to another problem: HEAT
Or just get a powerbank, easy enough, that's what I use to keep my switch going when the battery is low. Just get a 10,000mah or 20,000 mah power bank and you'll be fine
Silent Mode: "If you can't play your games, there will be silence" 😂 Great unboxing as always! I was looking so bad for the fps during the gameplay and estimated battery life, thank you!
The fact that this cost only 700 dollars and 600 for the lower tier is unbelievable. I thought it was gonna be another 1000 dollar handheld. Might pick this one up when it's available.
@YouCanCallMeMich That's reaching a bit. I'm fine if it's like 500 or 600 hell 700 is still not bad for a handheld, but if it is like 1000 dollars than your better off just building a pc. But this is a dream come true, at least for me. I've always wanted a mini handheld pc when I was younger for on the go gaming.
1 hour of 2022 AAA game on full brightness , 1080p, 120hz and turbo mode. Will it be 2-3h if it was half the brightness, 60hz and performance? And what about older and indie games? Would be interesting to see more battery tests.
Honestly with steam deck settings on this this could very easily kill the Deck, but i gotta say Valve pulled it off really well, it's also incredible in its ways
I doubt it, I have a SD and get 1hr15m playing FF7R at ~70% brightness, 600p resolution and 45FPS when battery life is 100%. With the same battery size, higher resolution and faster refresh rate screen, it would be around 45 mins at best
To think that handhelds can perform better than last gen consoles is pretty insane, although not for me, I'm very happy to see competition in this market. Valve really knows what they are doing, even if the ROG Ally beats the Deck, Valve has laid the foundations of their plan to get even more people to use their storefront and that is where the real money lies.
Well the ROG Ally is beating the deck by the way you're looking at it. What I'm seeing is that the deck is winning. Yes the Ally has better performance,but I feel like the steam deck with it's custom made OS, specifically for console like gaming is better. Besides to get good games on the Ally you still have to go to steam. Both of them are good but imo the deck is better.
i'm definitely impressed, handheld Gaming PCs are going to take the leap of smart phones power in a few years. and compeitions is good, more options for us
They both alright theres no reason fighting cause they werent even the ones who started the fight GPD revived the handheld pc genre in 2016. i think if you buy a handheld pc from gpd its like twice the price of a steam deck or a rog ally and the performance is crazy good
@@rainelrodriguez4806 I think both are good devices but I play a lot of AAA Games like Hogwarts legacy or Cyberpunk 2077 and for this I need a little bit more power that the ally offers to get 40 to 60 FPS on medium settings. The Steam Deck performs also well at 30fps stable. So both devices will be good. I will keep both I think.
Im seriously considering getting one. The steam deck didn’t catch my attention but this one is better priced and better performance. And it’s more compact.
I know the default resolution is 1080p but at 800p (Steam Deck default res) this thing is a beast. For Steam gaming, SteamOS is great but I prefer Windows. Also, Steam Deck isn't even officially released in my country yet.
A handheld PC after the Steam Deck, and from Asus ROG to boot? Yes please 🙏 Only issue here is the battery life, but then again, gaming on the move is mostly short unless you're traveling to faraway places. Otherwise, awesome piece of gaming hardware. Looking forward to future improvements!
Very interesting device, on paper what this APU can do at full load is really a lot of stuff, furthermore the possible combination with eGPU leads to implications for desktop/fixed console replacement conceptually very valid (apart from the prices and the proprietary port ). Even in this case however, although more powerful, the performance and autonomy of the Z1 Extreme from what we have been able to see, have proved to be below Steam Deck from "15 watts down" (which is a fundamental range for portability)... We really hope that AMD's future drivers will be able to improve the performance per watt of this Z1 Extreme, and that these are only benchmarks given by a severe (hopefully) temporary lack of optimization. All this makes me want even more, a revision of the excellent Van Gogh/Aerith SOC/APU of the Deck but produced with a better production process (like 4/3nm), which with the same power and with medium/low settings can finally allow the Valve machine to arrive even in the AAA at a stable 3/4 hours; have done an exceptional job with its SOC, a revision of this type in my opinion, would allow Steam Deck to become truly mainstream (then also a possible retail sale as is happening in Korea and Japan, combined with some advertising, wouldn't hurt).
Trouble with the EGPU is it’s entirely proprietary and VERY expensive, they only offer 2 options too. Interesting concept but not really what these handhelds are about.
@@gouravburnpur Because if you are spending 2000 dollars on it, for a Ally too spec model and a RTX4090 external GPU which is proprietary, you may as well buy a desktop with a whole lot more upgradability.
Its default resolution is 1080p compared to Steam Deck's 720p (or 900p) if I'm not mistaken. I think it performs better than Steam Deck at 720p. The biggest burden is running a 'full' Windows 11. Would be nice if Microsoft would develop Windows for handheld devices, not just for gaming but also office use.
For anyone wondering about the ROG Ally being an April Fools joke and they release it because the tweet saying that the ROG Ally is an April Fools joke BUT the tweet itself was the *APRIL FOOLS JOKE* Now you know.
Looks awesome. Still love my steam deck but its nice to see some alternatives. Performance looks great, though you'd definitely want to be plugged in for turbo mode.
Now who’s the Aprils fools now they weren’t joking around when they said they were releasing the Rog Ally but it’s not worth buying if you already own the Steam Deck I would wait until the Steam Deck 2 gets released then go for the Rog Ally 2 then see who’s better
Always love your reviews, no lot of talks just enjoy each games you played but still wrote what the perfect and imperfect of those products. Keep your good work
Many people here were very impressed by this device, however we are forgetting the price according to the performance it offers: It is not possible that, even if it is an APU, GTA V framedrops below 60 at 1080p with NORMAL graphics settings (which basically correspond to the ultra low settings). I'll also add that you'll never hit 120fps to take advantage of the 120Hz refresh rate, so it's just extra money for a screen that won't be exploited (unless you're talking competitive games like CSGO, Valorant, Overwatch) but I find it hard to play these games with a controller rather than a mouse and keyboard.
For sure but it’s not WAY better. It’s still competitive and with the steam deck still being cheaper and having the steam support it will still do well imo
In the Deck's defense, it came first, and the Aerith chipset is, for all intents and purposes, the Z0 (comparing with the Ally's Z1). Put another way, if the Deck didn't prove there's a market, we wouldn't have Microsoft subsidizing a competitor out of sheer fright with the Deck chip's successor, not to mention this quickly.
@@itsct2140 Thats fair. Personally I prefer the Asus it seems. That screen, form factor, weight, and performance upgrades really make a big difference for me imo
@@PantsaBear the battery life is really bad if you use peak performance on it. But when charging and playing it will probably be a blast. I think a power bank would be needed outside
@@itsct2140 the Asus Ally is better then Steamdeck plus Steamdeck has it short comings games on steamdeck are hit or miss meanwhile games are optimize for Windows.
ROG thingy: +really good specs +good price point +120hz -ugly -runs stock windows -no software support -no hardware support -no mouse trackpads -no customizability -not comfortable -ROG cringe as hell Deck: +dirt cheap +pretty +comfortable +custom linux OS and drivers made specifically for Deck with frequent updates +software support for custom button layouts and more +trackpads +replacement parts +Valve is not cringe -lower specs
@@rakeguy7703 700 for a more powerful 120hz handheld aint bad at all. It's just that the Deck is ridiculously cheap. I mean I have a powerful computer at home I'm not gonna use this thing as my main gaming device so no way I'm buying a 700 euro handheld. The steam deck on the other hand is priced to where it's great for long trips or what have you to kill the time.
Promoting handhelds PC as a PC gaming console is just great. Hope the market booms a lot and we get to see more capable fastest apus that can run 1080p gaming in these systems. Hope Asus also will have great software support for it's device like valve does. For now the system looks to be solid for 2 years in gaming. And hopefully be more affordable in the future for users that don't have money to build gaming PC!!! Great times we living in right now. Handhelds pc are doing just fine. Now if Sony too came with hardware more capable than this would be awesome!! Which they don't do anyways....
With the Ally getting same SSD for $80 less, 2 more cores, more power efficient CPU/GPU. While granted, it looks like the non extreme version of the ALLY is somewhat slower than the Steam deck in graphics. (i do guess that the 4 GPU cores is probobly so efficient they can be clocked really high and still retain decent battery life) Guess, steam need to lower the price for there top range deck a bit. The extreme version with only $20 higher cost, with almost twice the GPU performance is also a really good deal... But there are still reasons to buy the Steam deck.Custom interface is really good, its a bit more child frendly, sturdier, easy to repair.... So.. if i would be buying it for my self, it would be no question, the ally is significantly better, but for the children. got to give it to steam deck still having a edge.
Imagine playing GTA 6 on this in future it's almost like playing it on mobile gonna have my hands on this for sure hope this will lauch in India officially
And finally it will available on my region on release date, unlike the Steam Deck that still unavailable after this few years. The price is also really competitive, curious how ASUS ROG can do that.
Several months after the release the Rog Ally still bugs, crashes and playtime is like 1 h. All you FPS seekers are the one raging on Fortnite and crying like babies. This is still a great device BUT it's NOT handheld on the go like they marketing team tells us....
😮 sigh, when will handhelds have edge-to-edge screens without a border? I wish they would have a clean glass or plastic body that just had the screen visible without a border.
@@LCJammer no, srsly, I got all handheld platforms, vita/new 3ds xl/ switch/Steam, and all of them good, but steam I love so much, maybe because it runs on Linux, so it not consuming battery too much. But this rog, I dunno, we had already similar ultra powerful mega handheld consoles, like Gpd win or smth like that, with price around 1000, but nobody needs em, battery dies in a seconds, and not a good optimization for console. I like, in steam os many games now have best console preset for deck from developers, that rly makes it much better now than any other hh console Yes u can play on Rog 120 fps games, but how long? 30 mins? What about game sleep mode?
@@hellsbells8979 Deck has 2 times faster, sharper, and a much more color accurate display + much better performance and has faster charging than the deck while only being less than $100 more (comparing with similar specked SD).
@@omariorou1339 better specs, yes, but I told already, it works on windows, so it needs more system resources+ deck is updated almost daily to improve steam OS. + Many developers optimise games for deck, as I said before, you can find already deck presets in many games. + Nobidy really talks about battery time. We will see how many Rogs will be sold compared to deck.
