why the ROG Ally is SUPERIOR to the Switch OLED

Hey, so I have a bit of an update on my

handheld gaming devices. Yesterday I

finally made the decision to sell my

Switch OLED, and that's mainly because I

don't really feel like I need the Switch

OLED anymore now that I have the ROG Ally,

which after many tests and many gaming

testing sessions, I decided that the ROG

Ally is better than the Switch OLED in

basically every single way apart from the

battery. Obviously the, obviously the

Switch OLED has better battery

performance, but apart from that, having 2

handheld gaming devices seems kind

of redundant. And I'm always gonna only be

able to play one handheld gaming device at

a time. I can't play on both of them at

the same time. And I never really felt

like I wanted to play on the Switch

anymore when I had the ROG Ally available,

because the games on the ROG Ally are just

so much better than anything that's

available on the Switch OLED. Now, I

originally bought the Switch OLED because

I wanted something light. I wanted to be

able to do casual gaming when I'm

traveling and on the go. And at the time,

I really enjoyed things like Mario Kart 8,

and I really wanted to play the new Legend

of Zelda games. But after playing them and

kind of getting bored of them, I don't

really have a use for the Switch OLED

anymore. And after playing Steam games and

PC games on my ROG Ally handheld,

just feels so much better to play PC games

in this kind of format than it does to

play Switch OLED games. Now the main

difference between the 2 devices I would

have to say is the Switch OLED is far more

portable and easier to carry. This does

get a bit uncomfortable to hold at times

because it feels so much wider and the

hand grips are so much bigger, which you

think is a good thing because you've got

more to grip onto, but I actually

preferred this slender, slimmer Joy-Cons

of the Switch OLED. Now if I could get the

body of the Switch OLED but with the

internals of the ROG Ally, that would be

amazing. And I really miss the kickstand

on the Switch OLED, but unfortunately

those things were just not powerful enough

to convince me to keep the Switch OLED

over the ROG Ally. The ROG Ally is just so

much better. I can do so much more with

it, not only gaming, but because it's got

Windows 11, I can do things like I can

manage my finances with spreadsheets. I

can edit videos on this as well. I've got

my video editing software downloaded on

this thing. I can plug in a mouse and

keyboard And I can actually edit videos

and do live streams from this handheld

device if you wanted to do that. I can do

my grocery shoppings on it and watch

YouTube. I can do anything on it like it's

a PC. In comparison, the Switch OLED,

you can't really do much on it apart from

just gaming crappy Nintendo games or old

indie games. I know Metal Gear Solid is

coming out. It's like a remake, but it's

not really a remake because they haven't

improved the graphics. It's just like

re-releasing the old Metal Gear Solid

series onto the Switch OLED, which is kind

of cool, I guess. But those games are so

old, I don't really want to play those

games again. I really enjoyed them when I

was a kid, but I don't think I'd enjoy

them now as an adult. So I managed to sell

my Switch OLED to a nice guy here in

Bangkok for about 5,500 baht,

which is— I think it's like $150 or £125.

And I probably paid £300 or $350

to buy it brand new. So yes, I did it for

less than half of what I paid for, or

around half. But that's okay because my

Switch OLED was pretty scuffed. It was

pretty not looking pretty. It was in bad

condition, but the guy was happy with it.

And I chucked in the free Mario Kart 8

Deluxe cartridge with it, and also the

charger and the Joy-Con grip. So I did

lose a lot of money by buying that thing.

I lost over 50% of its initial value, But

it's okay, I made some videos on YouTube

to make the money back, and I had some

nice times with the Switch OLED playing

Tears of the Kingdom and some Mario Kart.

But I felt like it was time to move on,

and in my quest to declutter my tech and

reduce my backpack space and weight, I

want to go with the ROG Ally as my

handheld gaming device over the Switch

OLED. So until Nintendo releases the

Switch OLED 2 or the Switch Pro or the

Switch 2, whatever they're going to call

it, I'm going to stick by with ROG Ally

because it just has way better games,

it's way more powerful, it looks way

cooler as well. I mean, look at this

thing, it's like a sci-fi gadget. It's

also massive. Do you remember when phones

were this big? So yeah, we're gonna have

to bid farewell to the Switch OLED. It

lasted me for about a year. I bought it

last year in October and it basically

served its function, its purpose, but the

internals and the software and the

internal power is just not strong enough,

not powerful enough for me. Now that I've

had a chance to test out some of these

really powerful Windows 11 handheld gaming

devices, I don't really feel like I could

ever go back to something as basic and as

powerless as a Switch. They— Nintendo

really, they really need to come out fast

with a Switch Pro or a Switch 2 before

these Windows 11 handhelds just completely

overtake and dominate the market. The

Steam Deck has already kind of dominated

the handheld gaming space. And all these

companies coming out like Lenovo, AYANEO,

ROG, they're coming out with their own

handheld devices and they're all really

interesting and really good. So Nintendo

better have something interesting coming

out for Switch 2. I don't know what they

can do because they're always like, oh no,

we don't want powerful graphics because we

prioritize optimization and battery life.

So I don't really think we're going to be

blown away by the graphics, and I don't

honestly care too much about the graphics.

It's more about the game selection. So I

really don't see Nintendo putting Windows

11 on the Switch Pro. If I can play Steam

games on the Switch OLED, then maybe I

wouldn't have sold the Switch OLED because

the Nintendo Game Store is just not that

good. You've got like a lot of Mario

games, a lot of Super Smash Bros, and that

kind of stuff, and some Sonic games, but

they're all kind of catered towards

children. And I'm not a children— I'm not

a child anymore. I like violent adult

games with serious undertones, and there's

just not many of those games available on

the Nintendo Play Store, so I had to go

elsewhere. And I don't think Nintendo is

going to change its target audience

anytime soon. They're always going to be

targeting children for their audience

because that's where they make their

money, because Mario and all that stuff is

more popular with kids. But as someone who

doesn't really care about Mario, or I'm

not really that interested in Zelda

anymore, or Metroid. I never liked

Metroid. There's not really any Nintendo

games I'm desperate to play, so unless

they put Steam Store onto the Switch Pro

or the Switch 2, then they've lost me as a

customer. They've completely lost me as a

future potential customer for any upcoming

Switch consoles. I really feel like this

is the perfect device for me. I really

love it, but the main thing I don't like

is the battery. They really need to work

on the battery length. It's only about 1

hour gaming. So you can't really do a lot

of gaming on this. If you've got some kind

of AAA game that takes up a lot of power,

it's going to drain the battery very

quickly. But apart from the battery life,

this is pretty much the perfect device at

this point, and I don't really know what

else they can do to improve it. The

graphics are really good already. They

could maybe have more powerful graphics,

but at this graphical fidelity point, I

think I'm pretty happy and satisfied with

the amount of power it already has. So I

only see how much more improvement they

can do to this. On the other hand,