Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “ROG Ally: Actual Steam Deck Killer”.
Oh, this is interesting. There’S apparently a new there’s. There’S leaked pricing for the Rog Ally. Okay, I’m I’m sorry, I’m totally changing gears here, real quick Dan, I’m sorry! I will get to that I’ll.
Get to that really quick um! Another leak. The Rog Ally will apparently start at 600 bucks with AMD Z1 and 256 gig SSD. If that’s true, then this, then that’s just 70 dollars higher than the same storage, size, steam deck so aggressive for how much more performance you’re getting and, more importantly, for how quiet it is. That is awesome like awesome. The Ally is not a perfect experience to be very, very, very clear here, didn’t say the steam deck is, though no well. No, but I I but I’m talking about the Ally in a different way. I’M just clarifying for people sure game compatibility is much better, but the experience of playing those compatible games.
Well, there’s some hurdles to overcome. Still Asus has a lot of work to do on the software. Interesting and so does Microsoft. Windows is not optimized for these handheld consoles and, like I just just I I have this okay here. Actually I recorded this video on my phone conveniently I was just.
I was trying to do something basic. What the heck was. I trying to do. I’M honestly, having a hard time remembering, but I I was oh yeah right. I remember I was trying to go into the stupid AMD control panel and I was trying to alter a setting for the GPU driver and I had a game running. I had uh. I was playing straight, I finally played stray um. I had a game running and I couldn’t get it open. It just kept being Windows about it and yeah.
I can’t find it right now, but I I kept you know swiping up and then that brings up a little bar and then I’d swipe up again and then I would click the windows icon and then it would go away and I’d be okay. So I’d swipe up twice again and I’d go into the system tray and I click the AMD control panel and then stupid thing would go away. I’M like okay! This is ridiculous: I’m not even an exclusive full screen mode right now, like it’s, the steam deck is a console and that’s its strength.
Right now, the Ally is a computer with a controller bolted to it, and that comes with problems and there’s some things that Asus is doing where that they’re trying to um, where they’re attempting to mitigate that. But it’s a mitigation. Unless Microsoft gets involved, it’s not going to be a perfect experience now on the steam deck. I’M not saying it’s perfect either, but what it is is it’s seamless for the games that it does play. I shouldn’t say seamless. It’S less see me for the games that it does play.
You can expect that there’s been some kind of validation process that has taken place. Someone looked at it at some point. Do you think valve would have been interested in packaging Steam OS with the Ally? I don’t know about the Ally, but my understanding is that they at some point talked to at least some of the competing handheld console makers and they’ve certainly taken a fairly open approach to the operating system.
It’S not like uh shoot. What’S it called it’s escaping me? Now but there’s uh, there’s a third party sort of basically Steam OS um stimulus, alternative for desktop ugh. I can’t hollow hollow ISO. That’S the one and it’s not like valve is clamping down on that or anything like that.
They’Ve also, I think I mean they committed at some point. I don’t know if they’ve actually talked about it lately, but they said they were going to release Steam OS as just a standalone operating system at some point. So at that point nothing would prevent a third party handheld maker from installing and shipping it like it’s, it’s free right, yeah um. But what I also heard anecdotally is that there are certain things that valve is keeping for themselves like the profiles that they’ve created, where they’ve tuned the game to run well on the steam deck Hardware.
Anyway, that price excited .