ASUS ROG Ally - 14 Things To Know BEFORE YOU BUY
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- čas přidán 6. 06. 2024
- Riding the wave of handheld consoles, Asus plans to enter the market in a big way with their upcoming ROG Ally. Essentially a handheld gaming machine, capable of playing any game playable on PC from any client, whether Steam, EA Play or whatever.
There’s been plenty of commentary surrounding the Asus ROG Ally and its similarities to Steam Deck. Whilst both are handheld consoles, Asus are clearly positioning the ROG Ally as a more premium option. It sports performance features and hardware specifications superior to Valve’s handheld too. Here are 14 things you need to know before purchasing the Asus ROG Ally. - Hry
Y'all said, "It can run Windows 11". But, can it run Crysis?!
That's the first thing they answered in Asus' video yesterday. Yes, it can run Crysis
@@ooze1982 in Soviet Russia, we don’t run Crysis,.. Crysis runs you.
@Scrangle Mcjangle he's probably black
@@armroj51 or southern 💁🏿♂️
my guy out here using jokes from like 2007
Love the deck but want more power and freesync plus a better cooler I preordered one. I dont care about power draw i play on my couch it has built in power plugs and usb.
If you press the start button it voids Asus warranty.
This might be a dumb question, however, I don’t have a pc yet, so do you need a Microsoft an acc or a pc to use this?
All you need is an outlook account.
Looking to getting this or getting a gaming laptop. And im torn between the two to get. Help!!! Lol
already preordered lol. keeping my steam deck too
Same for me bro...... Let's see which console will convince us. Otherwise I will keep also both😂
@@rogert250 I'm keeping playing on the Deck while waiting to see if your Ally hardware holds up in the coming months.
Same here! Here in US the asus ally going to be sold by bestbuy good return policy
@@double-a83 I preordered too and selling my Deck - BestBuy must have a ton of units - they're still available, that has to be how they got the price down.
Well maybe you can play one with your hands and the other with your feet at the same time. Now I see why people want this with their steam deck. Duh🤦♂️
can you play google games ?
So many people hating on this cause they simply can’t afford it lol
Im on the fence but after failing at trying to play steam deck games i wanted to play mainly ps3 games ive decided to go wit rog
Besides ASUS bloatware being included and their current mainboard practices being horrible-- they did get some impressive specs in there! Having decent win11 gaming in your pocket is crazy.
You have some seriously large pockets. 🤪
Yep I'm planning to run them both. SD is also an emulation powerhouse, EmuDeck has just been so easy to setup and use. But I do want to see how much better the Ally runs using HoloOS
A closer apples to apples comparison
@@seanc7886 i think u minus well ditch the steam deck bc you can emulate on the ally. also im not sure how good the ally would run a different operating system than windows (might screw up button mapping and make it unusable)
@@SebastianRoczz I used to think saying "could of" instead of could have was illiterate but saying "u minus well" instead of "you might as well" indicates you need to read more and play less video games.
Asus bloatware and Windows legal malware
I pre ordered diablo 4 on Xbox... can I play it on ROG Ally?
yep
Can i play PlayStation 5 games on it ?
They should've priced the lower model at $499 with 256GB instead leaving a bigger gap. It's a no-brainer to get the Extreme one for $100 more cause the performance difference is huge.
That's kindof the point. It makes you see the difference is only 100 so you get that one. Ide bet 90% of sales will be the extreme model
@P Killjoy i don't think anybody will be the lower tier one, i don't understand it tbh, atleast they should've made a 400$ version with 64gb like the steamdeck then i would've considered the lower tier version
@@pkilljoy5797 well it's kinda hard to sell something that isn't even out yet so. They purposely made the more expensive model ready for pre-orders yet they didn't for the lower model.
The lower model is like how McDonald’s puts the side salad next to the French fries on their menu 😂
But will it play Pokémon ?
So ? To the gaming world. Should i go 512gb deck?? Or rog ally extreme??..i been holding out on the deck just to make sure i get the best bang for my buck..if i could play xhox game EASILY!! i woulda been got the deck. I KNOW THE DECK CAN DO ALL THEM THINGS..but i aint tech savvy so i want the most smoothest device
U can play gamepass on the deck and buy most Xbox games and ps5 games I kept my deck
@slimewaytrap916 yea but u can't do all that wit out dual booting and alotbof extra tinkering..the ally I can take out the box and play anything I want..I AINT DOWNING THE DECK..its a great machine..and worth every dollar..but I ain't wit all the extra stuff just to play a game. Dual booting back and forth..AND WHEN U DO FINALLY GET GAMEPASS TO WORK..ITS GOT PROMS AND STUTTERING..if the deck didn't have that anti cheat system I woulda been bout a deck
Battery life is huge. Honestly these power hungry handhelds should position power where the battery pack used to be for Xbox, so as to avoid the hands.
2-4 hours at 60fps and lower brightness for more intense games is okay. Cloud will be great ofc :) but for native gameplay on the go for after class or at a friends house, a battery focus should be a big priority for ASUS / Xbox in the future. Still, awesome!
2-4 hours? In which parallel universe?!? 🤔
You should be using 10 Watts of power to get 4 hours of play. It's already hard to get 20Watts of power consumption to reach two hours...
@@azzart979 depends on the brightness, and other settings as well as how intense the game is. If your playing on cloud you might get more time
the battery lasts one hour playing a triple AAA game... and barely 3 playing a indie game...
@@rhianor That's at 1080p with the screen set to 120hz and brightness turned up to max and settings as high as possible in 'turbo' mode. In 'comparable' settings to Steam Deck, it lasts about as long as they both share the 'same' 40w/hr battery. The difference here is that this machine can deliver 'More' if you want to push it but if you do, you'll drain the battery much faster as your using more 'watts' per 'hour' and your battery is rated to have 40w. It also Charges faster than Steam too...
You can tweak the settings to be as 'intensive' as the machine can deliver - push up to 35w/hr of power consumption and with a 40w battery, get about an hour of gaming - or limit it to 15w and get 2-3hrs worth, limit it further by 'streaming' for example, as that isn't running natively and using your 'battery' to run the game, you can get 5-6hrs.
The point is, if you are travelling and know that you are not going to be able to charge for a few hours, you don't run the RoG Ally at its 'highest' possible settings - you 'optimise' for 'longer' battery life - drop the res down to 720p and rely on upscaling tech to deliver a crisp 1080p image, turn a few settings down too as the difference is much less on such a small screen, cap the screen to 60hz, cap the game to 60fps etc to reduce the power consumption and increase battery life. Then when you get somewhere you can play near a power socket, you can really push the unit...
more than 50% of the reviews I have seen do not mention the Pros of the Steam Deck over this device.
PRO: I bought the $399 Steam Deck (same CPU/GPU as the $649 mocel) and this device easily gets 5+ hours when i travel and is why i bought it in the first place. The quality is still amazing even adjusting it to 6-8 Watts its crazy.
PRO: Steam Deck starts at $399 for those on a budget and $40 gets you 512 GB from a micro SD card. I have Not Once thought, oh, this thing is loading 4-12 seconds too slow for my games i play, i should have spent another $250....
Steam deck has a 800p display not 720p.
Still not 1080p
is it 512 or 256 on the base model ?
256
Base model is 512, you have to pay extra of you want to downgrade to 256.
After buying a top end ROG gaming laptop wayback in 2019 I’d say ASUS’s customer service and product quality is flat down 0/10 I also bought my peripherals from ROG, literally my gaming gear is almost 100% ROG apart from the ones who doesn’t have ROG alternative. Most of the products experienced issues after a year or two. The amount of bloatware from the Armoury Crate was also annoying with some of functionalities of the peripherals having issues in that trash software. Considering the first versions of the ROG phone was also garbage in both quality and customer support. It would be wise for those who doesn’t have tons of money to burn to let the Ally sit for a while and wait for actual reviews and future versions to come.
Valve’s already planning the next Steam Deck and would probably be released in a year or two. It is just normal that the Ally would top the specs since the steam deck is already one year old and even older for when it was announced.
If the Steamdeck 2 can play fortnite out of the box and has 120FPS i will buy it. If not im sticking to this. Just ordered 2 ❤❤❤
@@eros2144 not sure about Fortnite since I never played that game but I’m pretty sure Steam Deck 2 will be more powerful than the Ally. I also watched a video where ASUS lied and overhyped the Ally. It’s literally the same when they first announced the ROG phone.
In my experience ROG products have been overpriced and awful. Hard pass.
@@mephisto5856 ive seen videos of Ally running fortnite flawlessly. That is all i want this for. Steamdeck currently cannot run Fortnite out of the box or at 120FPS. In my case, Ally is the way ❤️
@Eros fortnite runs on your phone dude. Idk why you'd think the deck couldn't run it? Just install windows and play the game. It's not a graphically demanding game you know lol
ASUS Rog Ally Looks amazing handheld pc gaming console what would defeat steamdeck But its too expensive so i would buy a Steam deck still. XD
Does it allow playing of mobile games,so I'd just buy this only instead of buying a gaming phone
i bought already ...
720p low setting in AAA games for 2 hours is not playing😅
Already have a good gaming laptop and desktop otherwise I might consider something like this
It's not for everyone
this is a mobile device that you cant compare to a laptop. You can play this thing when you laying down on your bed.
@@double-a83 yea definitely
@reardeltoit It plays the same games, but I'd rather keep and use my laptop since it offers more. In my own perspective, unless this device was something similar to a switch where you can only play specific games on it for me it isn't a need at this time
@@kingjaries I know it's not for everyone.. but it's good to have competition pushes other companies to make better products.. Nintendo needs to step up there Hardware
I really don't mind window, don't know why peoples hating it.
Is this worth it
Me personally, I think 600 bucks for a base model is absurd. I might of picked one up if they were 400 or even 450.
For me it have two disadvantages over steam deck:
1) Windows < Linux (SteamOs or in this case something like AsusOs or ArmouryCrateOs)
2) no treckpads. You ain't gonna enjoy RTS, CRPG or FPS.
If neither of that is a problem for you, the 700 Extreme version in USA is tottaly worth it. 600 non Extreme version is terrible for it's price (it has less cores so it will be even less energy efficient, let alone the degraded perfomance) and 750/860 price in Europe is pretty close to the competitors that offer much more "premium" devices.
Honestly just gonna spend the extra $300 and get one of their mid grade gaming laptops for PC gaming on the go. I’ve heard battery life sucks on this thing.
What's the specs on this laptop you're looking that is $1,000?
@@jponz85 at that price mid spec that will only last a couple of more years. One thing you have to remember is that labtops needs more power to push it further on usually a higher spec display. The Ally is meant to be portable even more so than laptops are.
gaming laptop will have even worse battery life lol.
I mean a laptop is going to have worse battery life…. But for $300 more the zephyrus g14 isn’t a bad option. I have one and it’s a good deal on sale for $999.99. I’ve already pre ordered an Ally though. I love my steamdeck, but I want to give the Ally a shot, and if I find the dock second hand, or on sale down the line I’ll grab that too. The $800 version of the dock has amd mobile 6850 XT, which is more than capable of high end gaming at 1080 and 1440 resolutions. My zephyrus g14 has the 6700s gpu, and that handles 1440p just fine. So not a bad deal to expand the Ally, makes the total only $1500, and considering I bought my laptop for $1549.99 when it first launched early 2022, it’s not a bad option, and sticking with amd graphics on the dock means less ducking around with drivers as the iGPU on the z1e is using the amd drivers. So no need for amd and nvidia gpu drivers bloating the system together.
1200p display?
Nope, 1080p
Bruh. Why do their videos sound AI generated? 😂
does it have a gyroscope?
Yes
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Where are the Cons of the ROG Ally?
Many reviewers are experiencing crashes, trouble with games on Windows 11...etc. Some getting only an hour or 2 of gaming? This is not so portable after all if you need to plug in often. Anyone reading this should look at more than one review that only lists Pros, some being questionable. For example, Praising the speaker technology without real world experiences. Some reviewers say the Steam Deck speakers are superior in sound quality when tested side by side.
"over steam deck limitation to steam". One more review paid by Asus without disclosing it. People will buy this misinformation as truth... 1:13
Yea i caught that bull shit too
limited to steam ? lol my steam deck has windows on it since i got it last year
But it's a long and annoying process to do that.
too bad already did T-T
Some effective advertising, these are cool for kids but being a adult and I can take my laptop almost anywhere no problem it’s a na for me, but when I have kids in the future I’m excited they’ll have something like this
So a major selling point for the Ally is the fact it can play games from EA, Ubisoft, etc clients... but you miss to say that the Steam Deck can install windows? Also the gaming companies are the ones on fault for not supporting their shitty clients on Linux, it is not really the Valve's fault that those companies do not support Linux.
SHHHH 😮😮 ASUS PAD THEM TO NOT TELL YOU THE STEAMDECK CAN DO ALL OF THESE THINGS PLUS MORE 😅😅😅
@@allhandsonsteamdeck1440 you are a shill too
It is valves fault because valve chose a platform with compatibility concerns.
Was gonna watch the video, but by the third time you said "rog" instead of "R. O. G."...
*Rogue
Without touchpads it's a non starter as a PC handheld.
Question is can I play gta5 on this ?
ASUS has turned into a shady company. Stay away if you expect any level of customer care or actually need to RMA. You will be lost.
One big flaw, it doesnt come in black...
Lol is that what it is
THE SELLING POINTS WERE THAT ITS 2 TIMES FASTER THAN DECK ITS NOT😮😮😮 THAT IT PLAYS GAMES AT 1080P 120FPS BUT MOST REVIEWS SHOW 720P UPSCALED AND STILL NOT GETTING 120FPS😅😅😅 IM SORRY BUT THIS THING OVER PROMISED AND WILL UNDER SELL BECAUSE OF IT
Haters hate, ally is better. Steam deck lags at 10 watts
he’s just a steam deck fanboy 😂😂😂
Paid ad...
This video seems sloppily thrown together with less than factual information.
Good luck with your motherboard exploding and Asus voiding your warranty 😂
i understood that reference
@@Real_SkyRipper 😆😆 Nice, that's why I wouldnt touch this thing
Different departments but yeah it's a concern
@@Jay89 There's nothing wrong to wait and see how the hardware will hold up for 6 months to a year. I'm going to keep my eye on the Ally but I have to wonder if Asus took short cuts in the quailty of hardware in order to sale the device at a low price.
If the hardware hold up and Asus responds well to hardware failures (all electrics have some) I will likely get one.
With so many games to play on my Deck I'm no rush to risk $700 blindly. I'll let others to test the device.
@@smidlee7747 100% bro, nah am just messing around this thing looks cool in all fairness, I love the fact portable gaming is back and getting the well deserved love again, more competition is always good for us so hope the trend continues, I also love my deck and am not ready to upgrade yet but if I didn't have one I would be keeping an eye on this but personally I don't like Asus they are shady AF and there customer service is none existent, I feel you are right the after market support will really tell if this thing sinks or swims and being the Asus first gen hardware there will be allot of concerns and issues but hopefully they come down from their cloud and listen to their customers 😀
As a Surprise to nobody, all those Switch-like-Handhelds do have the same amount of Battery-Life on one charge, but somehow I don't see many People trash-talking about that thing.
its a fucking PC. The fuck did you expect?
Yeah that price is a deal breaker for me. I'd be more inclined into buying the steam deck since it's cheaper.
It looks so uncomfortable to hold
You keep pronouncing ASUS and ROG weirdly.
I see asus propaganda here .. this is not a True video whit nice and bad part
C'mon....say it with me now....R. O. G. Not rog. They are initials. They're meant to be said as individual letters.
For to love of everything. Its not Rog its R. O. G
No its actually pronounced: "A. SOOS ROG ALLI"
@@maximum-orbitm ......I know you can read talking about the rog part