Steam Deck Got More Expensive, Xbox Got More Interesting
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🗓️ 29 May 2026
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Episode #604: Xbox is having another interesting week, but the biggest story may be the bigger picture. Asha Sharma says the team is building a stronger Xbox, and when you look at Game Pass, handhelds, PC, cloud, and the upcoming ROG Xbox Ally, that strategy is starting to feel more connected.
We also talk about why the Steam Deck price increase makes the ROG Xbox Ally conversation even more important. If Xbox can deliver strong value in the handheld space, it could become a major part of how people experience the ecosystem going forward.
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The The |
| 0:23.6 | The The |
| 0:40.3 | The the new. Welcome everybody to the X-1, Bros. This is your positive gaming and Xbox community. Welcome, everybody, for being here in chat. |
| 1:12.1 | Thank you for joining us. It's been a big week. A big thing happened this week. Steam Deck raised their prices. Steam Deck was the value play. I mean, they do have OLED screens, but it's not like they've got the internals that the ROG Xbox |
| 1:26.3 | LIX has |
| 1:27.4 | and just |
| 1:28.4 | crushes things |
| 1:29.4 | and make my |
| 1:29.9 | wiener feel |
| 1:30.3 | bigger when I'm |
| 1:31.0 | carrying it |
| 1:31.4 | in my they've got the internals that the ROG Xbox L.I.X. |
| 1:32.0 | And just crushes things and make my wiener feel bigger when I'm carrying it in my pocket. |
| 1:36.5 | It's like a value proposition, the steam deck. |
| 1:41.0 | And it was, it was a smart position for Steam deck. |
| 2:01.0 | But when you look at the price raises now, I would like to submit to you that spell, it doesn't spell trouble for them, but it's very good for Xbox. They're $949 for their top one. It went from, what, $6.49? No, $7.99, I think. To $9.449. The RRG Xbox L-A-X is 99. I'm getting that all day long over the Steam deck. |
| 2:03.9 | It's not even close. |
| 2:04.9 | And then you can put Steam on it. |
| 2:06.2 | And I can put Steam on it. |
| 2:08.6 | Yeah. Yeah, it's not even close. |
| 2:10.1 | So that move, that move, I mean, it's hardware. |
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