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ASUS ROG Xbox Ally - Game Console

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Customer, Pardubice 3flag
Rated 21/10/2025, variant ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X
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update after a period of use: the joystick feel is perfect, the shape fits me better than regular controllers. Updates are gradually being added as expected. Performance in games can be well optimised (e.g. stellar blade even in high quality gives to 120 fps?!, hades 2 on silent mode and max is practically not moving from 120)
build
performance
the possibility of running linux alongside win (currently you are using it)
handheld pc
xBox in the title is a bit misleading
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Ondřej, Prahaflag
Rated 20/10/2025, variant ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X
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Power. I used to have an original Ally from 2023 and the performance increase is really big. Games that used to run at 40-45 FPS now run at 70 FPS.
Big battery and in 17W mode more optimized for endurance.
Quiet cooling (again, a big difference compared to the Ally 2023).
Ergonomics of the body, analogue sticks and large ABXY buttons (but bad Menu button see. minuses).
The Xbox Full Screen Experience is at least a small step forward.
Story integration with Steam, Epic, EA, GOG, Ubisoft and Battle.net (not without bugs, but good that it's there).
It plays Windows games natively, so multiplayer games with anticheat work, unlike Steam Deck.
Once you get past the system bugs, the gameplay itself is great.
The name "Xbox" in the name. It doesn't work like an Xbox, it's not a Microsoft product, it's an ASUS product.
Software, the "console experience" is still a long way off. The Xbox Full Screen Experience (XFSE) is better than nothing. But from the biggest software company in the world, which owns both Windows and Xbox, I would expect the same quality and usability of a system like the Xbox One/Xbox Series when they lend their name to it. It can be done on PC as well, as Steam Deck/SteamOS has shown, but Microsoft would have to make an OS version that is really only focused on games, not just a facelift of Windows 11.
The first boot uses the normal Windows 11 installer, the settings are normal Windows Settings.
There are always some bugs in XFSE regarding UI focus/non-functional buttons, respectively. the button must be pressed twice. Also having trouble getting the keyboard to pop up when it should. When you start a game that isn't from the Xbox store, it won't switch focus to it.
Duplicate functionality between XFSE and Armoury Crate (AC) such as game library, sound control, brightness, etc. I don't understand at all why there would be any ASUS software on an "Xbox" device, this is only supposed to be integrated into XFSE.
Duplicate functionality between Xbox app settings and Windows Settings. Why isn't there just one place to set it up?
Updates are installed from 4 sources instead of one: Windows Store (Xbox app i. ), Windows Settings (Windows updates), Armoury Crate Update Center (drivers from ASUS, AMD), MyASUS (some drivers like "Armoury Crate Control Interface" are only there). Moreover, there is no notice anywhere that it is necessary to go to Armoury Crate at all.
Small 7 inch display and LCD instead of OLED. If it's an LCD, it could at least be bigger in proportion to the body of the device like the Switch 2 (7.9 inch), instead it has horribly large edges.
The location of the Menu (Start) button above the right stick is terribly impractical. This is fine on the Xbox One/Series gamepad, but here they've moved it down a bit and made it smaller. Plus, they put a Library button above it, so it's still easy to accidentally click on it.
Supplied without packaging. At 22,500 Kč, it's a bad joke, Steam Deck has packaging in the box even for the cheapest version at 17,500 Kč. In addition, the official ASUS packaging is sold out in Alza and everywhere else in the Czech Republic and will be up to a month and 5 days. You can't make this up.
It comes with 3 months of Game Pass Premium instead of Ultimate or at least PC Gamepass. What is Console Premium for Windows devices?
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Anonymous customerflag
Rated 19/10/2025, variant ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X
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This is my first handheld ever and I am completely satisfied. Games run luxuriously even Battlefield 6 on medium details I run at 60-90 fis. Windows is just Windows, whatever we will, but sometimes it does not work well even on PC. The 7-inch display is sufficient. I have no idea what people would want more? It is supposed to be a handheld device for travel, etc. not a 2-meter monster to play on.
Power
Appearance
Sound
System processing
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Anonymous customerflag
Rated 18/10/2025, variant ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X
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Probably the best handheld of our time
Great ergonomics
Xbox interface
Ideal display size
Turns on the xbox interface straight away
Can be used as a full-fledged computer when connected via the dock
Sometimes Windows is a disadvantage
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Dominik, Liberecflag
Rated 18/10/2025, variant ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X
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The biggest minus is simply Windows and Windows alone. They could have saved themselves the work and made a console purely on the Xbox ecosystem, but no, they put Windows in there again, this time slightly modified for gaming consoles, it failed. The system is stuck, sometimes it gets stuck, after popping up the keyboard there are black windows, you have to do a restart, etc. Saving RAM in game mode some max 600-1gb compared to desktop mode. I do believe that some update will improve it in the future and it will continue to improve, but for now it's not a console at all. It's another PC handheld.
Ergonomics
Battery life
Haptic response of buttons
Compared to the competition, quality cooling, not too noisy
Very good sound quality, you can't believe it's playing from such a small Handheld
Charger included
7" display is just not enough
Big black bezels around the display, why?
no carrying case
the paper stand is rather ridiculous
Windows
130gb is taken up by software only, so some 870gb is available.
Sometimes frustrating to use, it just doesn't work
Z2 extreme compared to Z1 Extreme is about 5% more powerful
The Z2 Extreme is an economical processor, but at the cost of raw performance
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Václav, Prahaflag
Rated 18/10/2025, variant ASUS ROG Xbox Ally
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I am satisfied
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Anonymous customerflag
Rated 17/10/2025, variant ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X
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I'm very disappointed. Where to start? I guess the handheld stand is paper! is this some kind of green joke? Also, if you think you're going to play games you bought on console, forget it, it doesn't even offer me the titles that are Xbox Play Anywhere and they work on my PC, they won't offer to install here on this thing. So it requires you to have a Gamepass membership and even the more expensive forms, essential doesn't care, it tells me I don't have any gamepass. So it doesn't allow access to your library, only to the paid library of gamepass. GOG doesn't work much, it's so slow that at first I thought the handheld was frozen. The only thing that works as expected is Steam and not the one here are the cheaper verified variants. It's really disappointing. I'm returning after a day of testing.
I don't see
extremely unresponsive menu controls
you can't play games from your xbox library, even those that are labeled Xbox Play Anywhere, which I normally play on PC
it looks like you can only play games from the gamepass, i.e. requires gamepass (essential version is not enough, I have that one)
GOG - extremely slow before anything starts
Steam - it's the only one that works ok, but SteamDeck is significantly cheaper
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