DO NOT BUY ROG Xbox Ally X

Hello and welcome back to a new video.

So today we're going to be talking about

the brand new announced ROG Xbox Ally X.

It is a brand new powerful handheld gaming

device created by ROG in collaboration

with Xbox.

Xbox are actually working very closely

with the ROG team to create a seamless

Xbox Microsoft experience on this

handheld.

So basically it is a high-powered gaming

device developed by ASUS in collaboration

with Xbox, and the whole goal is to bring

console quality gaming to portable form

factor.

So they've just announced this after the

Switch 2, so it seems like they're pretty

desperate to get their name in the game

before everyone becomes all focused on the

Switch 2 and the Switch 2 steals the show.

As someone who owns a Switch 2, I have to

say that I don't really regret buying the

Switch 2 after finding out about this new

Xbox handheld device, and the reasons are

because I don't really feel like this Xbox

Ally X— how many X's do they want in this

title?

I don't really feel like this new Xbox

Ally X console is really going to be a

game changer.

And sure, it might have more raw

horsepower and more powerful graphical

fidelity, but I feel like at the end of

the day, people are going to buy the

Switch 2 because it has more interesting

games.

The Switch 2 is also a lot cheaper than

what this Xbox Ally X is going to be.

Xbox Ally X is going to be nearly $1,000,

I think $900 for the Pro version and like

$700 for the normal baseline version.

And that is very expensive.

For those prices, you might as well get

yourself a laptop and then have the

combination of having a gaming laptop

which obviously has a bigger screen, is

also pretty portable, and you can do other

things on it like watch movies and do work

and make spreadsheets.

With the Switch 2, you can only really

game on it and maybe do some YouTube

watching, but it's only about £400, so

it's almost half the price of this brand

new Xbox console.

I just don't know who's going to spend

nearly $1,000 just to do some handheld

gaming.

Handheld gaming is supposed to be about

fun, portability, and just casual gaming.

It's not supposed to be about hardcore

gaming with the best graphics.

If you want the best graphics, just get

yourself a desktop PC or a gaming laptop.

And the design of this Xbox Ally X, it

looks really weird.

It's like really thick and chunky.

It looks like a massive brick.

And the controllers, maybe the controllers

are more comfortable to hold, but they

look hideous.

They're going to be really hard to fit in

a backpack, really hard to slot into

places.

And the portability is just not going to

be anywhere nearly good as the Switch 2.

So as for the specs of the ROG Xbox Ally

X, we're looking at the AMD Ryzen AI Z2

Extreme processor, one of the latest

mobile AI-driven AMD CPU chips, and it's

supposed to deliver high-performance

gaming with efficient power management.

And then we've got 24GB of LPDDR5X RAM,

some of the best RAMs available, and

you're going to need a lot of RAM because

it's going to be Windows.

Even though they say, oh, it's an

optimized Windows OS.

It doesn't really have desktop mode and

stuff like that.

It's still at the end of the day Windows,

isn't it?

So it says ensures smooth multitasking,

fast load times.

We'll see about that.

Yes, you've got 1TB SSD, pretty standard.

It was 7-inch 1080p display with 120Hz

refresh rate and the VRR support.

So it's not exactly OLED, is it?

And then we've got the Xbox Full

Experience boots directly into an

optimized Xbox, Xbox interface instead of

Windows.

So it's supposed to streamline access to

games, but that's not really a big deal

because, you know, already got Steam Deck

with SteamOS, which streamlines it

straight into a Steam page without going

into desktop mode.

So not really that impressive.

And I had an ROG Ally that didn't have

this kind of streamlined interface, and it

just opened Windows like a computer, and I

never had any problems with it ever.

It just ran like a computer basically, so

I don't know what they're talking about.

We've got impulse triggers and haptic

feedback.

So who cares about haptic feedback?

I hate haptic feedback.

I always— first thing I do, I always have

to go into settings and disable vibrations

because when I'm gaming, I don't want my

hands being vibrated like it's a dildo or

something.

It's weird.

So apparently it enhances immersion, but

it just makes it annoying because I don't

want my hands buzzing.

And we've got Xbox Game Pass cloud gaming

support.

Yeah, so what?

So do all the other Windows handhelds.

Longer battery life?

Doubt it.

Ergonomic design?

Yeah, it's just got a split Xbox

controller with a screen in the middle.

It doesn't really impress me much, to be

honest.

Yeah, so basically I just don't really

understand the point of this because I

would rather just play Windows games on my

laptop where I've got keyboard and mouse

and I've got monitor hooked up.

And if I'm gonna do handheld gaming, I've

already got Switch 2, so I'll just use

that for handheld gaming.

And yeah, I can play Mario Kart on it or

Zelda or Nintendo games on the Switch 2,

which is— you might think, why'd you have

a Switch 2 and a Windows device?

Is because there's things you do on a

Switch that you cannot really do on a

Windows device, and vice versa.

There's things you can do on a Windows

device like play Rainbow Six or play Path

of Exile, Diablo 4, that you can't really

do on a Switch 2.

So really, you want the best of both

worlds, and if you can afford it, then

just get both of them.

Because I guess at the end of the day,

there's not really anything stopping you.

You can just do whatever you want.

If you've got the money, get a Switch 2

and you get a Windows handheld device and

get a laptop and get a PlayStation 5.

But I'm just saying that if you have a

limited budget and you could only get one,

I reckon the Switch 2 is probably better

value for money because it's only £400 and

you get some pretty good games on it and

some PC games.

Whereas with the Xbox ROG Ally X, you're

just going to get a very expensive

handheld, but not that expensive compared

to gaming laptops.

So you're going to get like an overkill

when it comes to handheld gaming, and then

you're going to get an underkill when it

comes to actual PC gaming if you're ever

going to hook this up To a desktop setup,

so I don't really know what the point of

this was.

It's too expensive, and it doesn't doesn't

doesn't really let you do stuff that you

can't already do do do do do do do.

So rubbish.