Asus has announced final details for the Asus ROG Ally, its Steam-Deck-style handheld gaming PC, confirming the device …
Asus has announced final details for the Asus ROG Ally, its Steam-Deck-style handheld gaming PC, confirming the device will launch on 13th June priced at £699/$699 USD.the device was not, in fact, a weirdly elaborate April Fool's Day prank, but rather an actual real thing it was planning to release.
A few weeks later, Asus was ready to talk specs, confirming the ROG Ally would include an AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme processor, a seven-inch 1080p 120Hz touch screen, a UHS-2 Micro SD card slot, plus Windows 11 support, and three months of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate. It also promised"up to" 16GB of LPDDR5 RAM in dual-channel mode and storage of"up to" 512GB PCIe 4.0 SSD, although it offered little word on other planned configurations.
And now, just a few weeks later, those questions around pricing have been answered. The Asus ROG Ally will initially ship with the configuration detailed above - a specification Digital Foundry described as"impressive" - for £699 in the UK and $699 in the US. That makes it approximately £130/$50 more expensive than Steam Deck's top-end 512GB NVMe SSD model and £350/$300 more than its bottom-end 64GB eMMC unit.
This initial ROG Ally configuration launches on 13th June, but Asus has confirmed it'll also be releasing a lower spec unit, featuring a non-Extreme Ryzen Z1 processor and 512GB SSD, sometime in"Q3" this year, priced at $599. How all this will stack up against the Steam Deck in a real-world setting remains to be seen, but hopefully Digital Foundry has more to say ahead of Asus ROG Ally's launch on 13th June.
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