Six hundred dollars. Why is the ROG Xbox Ally $600? It’s a question I simply cannot answer.

That’s not to say the Xbox Ally is a terrible handheld — it’s actually fine. In the two weeks I’ve had testing it, I’ve had fun digging into indie titles at smooth frame rates and being afforded the battery life uplift that comes with it.

AAA performance is lacking, but nothing a little tweaking to 720p low settings can’t get around to afford around 40 FPS in the likes of Forza Horizon 5 and Halo Infinite. And on top of that, I can’t ignore that the new gamer-fied Xbox Full Screen Experience of Windows 11 does eliminate my biggest bugbear of PC handhelds.

But this is a similar experience I can get in the vastly cheaper Steam Deck. In fact, it’s almost exactly the same APU with 4 cores/8 threads,

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