The most exciting thing about the ROG Xbox Ally handheld, at least for me, isn’t that it’s an Xbox. Nope, it’s the fact that it isn’t an Xbox, it’s a Windows 11 PC, albeit a teeny-tiny one. And with Microsoft onboard, it’s packing a refreshed, streamlined build of Windows that’s all about gaming. Asus says that the updated interface is coming to the older ROG Ally and Ally X handhelds, too.
This isn’t all that shocking — Microsoft itself confirmed that the new interface is coming to other Windows-based handheld gaming PCs, starting in 2026 . But it’s nice to get confirmation from manufacturer Asus that its older designs are definitely getting these enhancements. Asus representative Whitson Gordon said so at the Gamescom conference in Germany, speaking to PCGamer :
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