Per Dave2D, the company is pricing the ROG Ally competitively, but how competitive can it really be? If it’s compared to other Windows machines, that could look something like the $549 Ayaneo Air on the low end, the $1,099 Onexplayer Mini on the high end, or somewhere in between. Starting at $399 a pop, Valve is almost certainly doing that.Īsus doesn’t have that option and is planning on including nicer and more performant parts to boot. As the owner of the most popular game marketplaces in the world and hardware explicitly designed to run it, Valve sells the Steam Deck at a loss and makes up the cost with game transactions. With all of that on the table, the issue facing the Asus ROG Ally and any competitor to the Steam Deck, big or small, is Valve’s vertical integration.
The Asus ROG Ally has tough competition in the Steam Deck. Asus is also sweetening the whole deal by offering a connector port and software support for its external GPUs, which means you could hook the Ally up to an external display and GPU and get a better visual experience than the Steam Deck offers docked. Windows 11 could also serve as a double-edged sword in the sense that it's far more complicated than Steam OS and the Steam Deck’s launcher, but maybe the trade-off is worth it. Unlike the Steam Deck, the ROG Ally runs Windows 11, which opens it up to several games that don’t play nice with Linux and Valve’s Proton compatibility layer. Or maybe you turn up the graphics settings, and it lasts even shorter. With a custom chip and what seems like a roomier body for extra battery capacity, it’s possible the Ally could land somewhere in the wide 2–8 hour battery life window the Steam Deck’s 40Wh battery provides. The real test of the ROG Ally will be its battery life, and Asus didn’t share any details.
The ROG Ally supports Asus’ external GPU system for even more performance.
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