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ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X Hands-On Impressions

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Other Games, Video Games, Games, Leisure

4.2522 Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Danny Peña and Parris Lilly share their hands-on impressions of the ROG Ally and ROG Ally X. Listen to their in-depth discussion on these gaming handhelds and what they have to offer.

Transcript

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0:00.0

All right, so we're here at the Xbox Game Show

0:02.0

25. We just got to check out the show. By the way, great,

0:06.0

great phenomenal show. Lots of games. October's looking crazy.

0:09.0

But we're also going to be talking about brand new handheld that was just announced a few minutes ago, Paris.

0:15.0

Yeah. And you also got to check it out.

0:17.0

Yes, yes. I just went through a briefing just a few minutes ago.

0:20.0

So Xbox, as a lot of people know, are rumored, has partnered with ASUS.

0:25.6

So both of these, this is the ASUS ROG Ally X, and this is just the ROG Xbox Alley.

0:33.8

So the difference between the two, the black one is the more powerful one.

0:36.7

The Ally X is a more powerful. This is a 1080P screen. There's a 720P screen on the alley. This has AMD Rising Extreme AI chip. And I should get the exact spec on this one. I apologize. I don't have the top of my head. But this one,

0:54.8

and they're like AI because in the briefing I was in, I know people have concerns about that,

0:58.4

but they want to make sure they can squeeze as much power and performance and efficiency

1:03.4

out of these chips as possible. So that's why this one also has a one terabyte SSD drive in it.

1:09.2

This has a 512 SSD drive in it. So in the briefing I had, there's also, we can't show you the actual UI on here, but this one is powered on so you can at least see this screen. Yeah. Is there's a brand new Xbox experience for handheld that they're doing for Windows. And to be honest with you, that is the most impressive thing about this. Can we take them off? We can take them off. So there's a Xbox button on this now. This Xbox button, like you, because you know, I've talked about this a lot. My whole thing compared to what Valve is done with the Steam deck is you press the button, you're

1:44.3

in to big picture mode on Steam, you can go play your games.

1:47.8

That is essentially what Xbox is done now here with this, where you power this on,

1:52.8

you immediately go into the Xbox app.

1:55.7

This Xbox button can take you into the Xbox app from wherever you are.

1:59.8

It also brings up the game bar as well.

2:02.6

So it makes it very easy to get into your games. So you're immediately greeted with your Xbox app.

2:08.6

The last games that you've played across anything would play anywhere is available on this.

2:13.6

And we actually got to play Gears of World reloaded. Oh, nice. How was that? How was that?

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