The wait will not be that long as that: the Rog Xbox Ally and Rog Xbox Ally laptop consoles saw their release date announced without a drum in a statement released this afternoon, in the midst of the Gamescom 2025 show, large (m) European video game. It is therefore on October 16 that the partnership between Asus and Microsoft will arrive on store stalls. The two consoles will be available on Western European markets (including France), Japan and the United States. No official information has been communicated for the price.
#241205 – News | Rog Xbox Ally and Ally X, our handling of portable consoles ready to challenge the steam deck and the switch 2
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As a reminder, the Rog Xbox Ally and the Rog Xbox Ally X are laptop consoles embarking on a Windows 11 interface specially designed for video games. The operating system is, still today, the weak point of the laptop consoles market like MSI Claw or the Lenovo Legion Go. Only the Steam Deck stands out from the mass thanks to Steamos, this fork of the Bazzite distribution.
On the technical side, the ROG Xbox Ally has an AMD Ryzen Z2A chip (4 Zen2 calculation hearts, 8 RDNA2 graphic cores) of a power equivalent to that of the first generation steam deck, and a battery of 60 Wh. As for the Rog Xbox Ally X, it is placed as the flagship model with an APU AMD Ryzen Z2 Extreme (8 calculation cores (3 x Zen 5, 5 Zen 5c), 16 Graphic cores RDNA 3.5) much more powerful. Another advantage, its 80 W battery which should guarantee more substantial autonomy.
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