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[Timberwolf25]

Depending on how easy it is to install emulators and how well it performs, this could be the ultimate handheld playing games all the way back to the OG Gameboy.
I'm guessing probably good enough to emulate Switch 1, but no shot at Switch 2. If so, probably not every well.

 

[Gitaroo]

true, but more perfomance and memory savings are always good. so they should try to load actually only 100% vital stuff imo.

As long as I can do my initial tweak, install mods the same way as windows. I am happy

 

[rodrigolfp]

All handhelds with 890m, 8040s, 8050s and 8060s GPUs are more powerful than this, but more expensive

Interesting.

I found this:

 

[DenchDeckard]

Ally X is a phenomenal desktop replacement, it can run a 2160p Windows OLED display perfectly without an ounce of slowdown for general use, so it's a pretty complete package if you need something for more than just portable gaming.

I had a dock for my rog ally and would hdmi to tvs when I was travelling with work. Had a small little Bluetooth keyboard and mouse and could do Internet shit. Watch movies etc well.

These are powerful apus for more than just gaming. Even the z1 extreme is decent.

 

[Buggy Loop]

But in this case it's not a console, it's a PC handheld

 

[Jaybe]

Apparently these ROG Ally's don't have proper suspend/resume like the Switch and Steam Deck, (and Xbox Series/PS5)

 

[rodrigolfp]

Not quite able to emulate Series X titles.

Every single Series X game has a PC version. What is the point of emulating a Series X/S??

 

[Onironauta]

Interesting.

I found this:

Check out GPD Win 5

Ryzen AI Max+ 395 (wtf is wrong with AMD naming?!) is roughly on par with current gen consoles GPU wise (everything else from CPU to RAM is much better), but the power consumption is not handheld friendly

 

[Darsxx82]

They are going to need to do some optimizing for these handhelds so it should benefit Windows gaming in general

Introducing Advanced Shader Delivery - DirectX Developer Blog

This year at gamescom, Microsoft is highlighting new gaming features coming for Windows, particularly for handheld devices. We want to highlight one of the DirectX team’s most exciting new contributions to the PC gaming ecosystem, which will make its debut on the new ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox...

devblogs.microsoft.com

Is one step... We will see how It help.

 

[Mozza]

In all fairness the sales of this will not come as much of a surprise to Microsoft. They are used to consoles that do not sell all that well. Plus they do not tell you the sales figures anymore.

 

[Ozriel]

They are not the vast majority unfortunately. 20 of the 400+ games I own are play anywhere.

You own 400+ Series X games?

What's really important it's the fact of being a rebranded Ally with absolutely nothing new. I can get a discounted Ally X for 500€ now, wtf I as an "informed customer" would buy this?

It's definitely not a rebrand of an existing Ally, though. Valid to get the Ally X at at discount, but this model gives you better performance via the newer SoC, better ergonomics, the NPU powered AI upscaling and you'll have to wait until next year for the optimized Windows experience to come on the Ally X.

It probably makes sense to wait for Black Friday deals. Or returns, if you guys are right and some consumers would find it can't play their console library.

 

[Minsc]

I had a dock for my rog ally and would hdmi to tvs when I was travelling with work. Had a small little Bluetooth keyboard and mouse and could do Internet shit. Watch movies etc well.

These are powerful apus for more than just gaming. Even the z1 extreme is decent.

Yeah, I've been using mine in a bit of a tortue test scenario, encoding UHD 4k movies to HDR AV1 mkv files, so basically running it at 100% CPU 24/7 for a day or more at a time, and it's been great. Only uses like 30W and spits out amazing looking files for my Plex server.

 

[SomeNorseGuy]

Already bought a handheld this year and next year will probably belong to Switch². I just hope, for their sake, that the gaming mode benchmarks well. If nothing else it's supposedly very comfy/has great ergonomics.

 

[TDiddyLive]

You own 400+ Series X games?

I don't know about him, but I just filtered Optimized for Xbox Series X|S on the Xbox app on my phone and it shows 733.

 

[ClanOfNone]

I'm assuming I can put Steam on this thing? I've been waiting for a Steamdeck 2 to get back into pc gaming.

 

[Timberwolf25]

I'm assuming I can put Steam on this thing? I've been waiting for a Steamdeck 2 to get back into pc gaming.

Steam, GoG, Epic and others launchers

 

[Kacho]

I don't know about him, but I just filtered Optimized for Xbox Series X|S on the Xbox app on my phone and it shows 733.

How many games total? I only have 133 that are Optimized for Series X.

617 total for me. Xbox has me by the balls.

 

[Gambit2483]

In all fairness the sales of this will not come as much of a surprise to Microsoft. They are used to consoles that do not sell all that well. Plus they do not tell you the sales figures anymore.

I'm still struggling to understand how they plan to make any kind of substantial profit off of this product. Increased Gamepass subs?

 

[DeVeAn]

Every single Series X game has a PC version. What is the point of emulating a Series X/S??

You mean, just buy the games again for PC?

 

[Ozriel]

I'm still struggling to understand how they plan to make any kind of substantial profit off of this product. Increased Gamepass subs?

They won't plan on any hardware profit. It's pretty much an Asus device.

This serves multiple purposes for them:

- introduces the more handheld optimized Windows gaming experience to try to head off SteamOS incursions

- brings more traffic to GamePass and Xbox Store

- Basically get the Xbox audience used to some
Of the stuff they're going to push heavily for their actual next gen console. E.g Windows as the OS, multiple storefronts etc.

- use the NPU as the test bed for their 'Copilot in gaming' push.

 

[rodrigolfp]

You mean, just buy the games again for PC?

Sell all the XB Series games and get all the definitive versions.

 

[Kacho]

I got a like from O Ozriel ? Like a shiny unicorn.

 

[TDiddyLive]

How many games total? I only have 133 that are Optimized for Series X.

617 total for me. Xbox has me by the balls.

2816. It showed it in the screenshot.

 

[Kacho]

2816. It showed it in the screenshot.

Whoops. My bad. Impressive collection.

 

[S0ULZB0URNE]

What would guys go with this or high spec laptop desktop not an option.

Laptop

 

[Mozza]

I'm still struggling to understand how they plan to make any kind of substantial profit off of this product. Increased Gamepass subs?

Because the rest of their business is so profitable, They could run their whole console division at a los

 

[Gitaroo]

looks good especially with the AutoSR new, hope they make it available on PC in the future too. Still leaning on Legion Go 2 due to 120hz OLED VRR screen

 

[CLW]