It seems that the success of Steam Deck, which has managed to comfortably sell over a million units since going on sale in February 2022, has inspired other hardware brands follow the same path, put the PC on the market consolidated at an affordable price for the general public. And ASUS ROG ALLY is the answer to this challenge from one of the best hardware manufacturers.
More power than Steam Deck
computer consolidated there were already some before Valve released its Steam Deck, but Gabe Newell’s big hit was lowering his price up to levels that already interested a larger number of users. Remember that there are much more powerful alternatives on the market – such as the ONE XPLAYER – whose price is close to and above a thousand dollars, so the arrival of a much lower alternative has proven useful for the area.
Now ASUS wants to try its luck, with a computer model consolidated which greatly improves much of the material that Steam Deck has shown but of which we still do not know in which price range it will evolve, nor when it will be released. This ROG ALLY is still a kind of trial balloon that wants to measure the interest of the community for an artefact that today runs through the field of promises.
I summarize a lot, this ASUS ROG ALLY which was officially presented yesterday boasts that will have an AMD processor specifically developed for this model and that it will be much more powerful than the one that equips the same Steam Deck. There is no other data beyond this claim. So we will have to trust.
Better screen and compact
It is true that Steam Deck seems at first glance a very bulky and big machine, but when you take it in hand you realize the good handle What’s wrong with that. ASUS with its ROG ALLY goes in this direction but you compressed your layout a bit more to make it less freak. We’ll see when we get it in hand but, on paper, at this point, it definitely seems to trump the Valve model.
The screen also improves, increasing the resolution from a mere HD/60Hz/400 nits like Steam Deck to a ASUS ROG ALLY FullHD 1080p/120Hz/500nits. At this point, it is obvious that an improvement will be perceived, but the increase in this resolution must necessarily be accompanied by much more powerful hardware to be able to move four times as much graphic information load per second.
Little more can we advance, beyond this its control configuration is the standard of a gamepad for PC (D-pad, two The sticks and ABYX buttons) and forget about the touch panels which are used to move the mouse more precisely in games that require the keyboard-tandemmouse of all life.
In the absence of more data – it is speculated with a price between 649 and 899 dollars and a launch for October of this year -, for now here is what we have: a determined bet from ASUS for the video game on computer with a machine of its own, it remains to be seen which GPU will drive its graphics, the RAM memory it will equip and the storage alternatives that can be purchased. Do you think it will sell more units than Steam Deck?
