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ASUS breaks your ROG Ally if you don't pay $200 for warranty repairs: SCAMMING COMPANY! (youtu.be)

submitted 7 months ago by DreitonLullaby@lemmy.ml to c/games@lemmy.world

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[-] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 24 points 7 months ago

Cheaper

Isn't the Ally a lot more expensive than the Deck?

easier to use

I'd also question this, obviously everyone's familiar with windows but the handheld experience is pretty rough when compared with SteamOS.

[-] xkforce@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago

Walmart prices:

512 GB Ally: $399

512 GB Steam Deck: $499

[-] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 9 points 7 months ago

To be fair, that's the low power Ally with a pretty significant 20% off sale.

I'm not well educated on the power difference, but a quick google search shows the cheaper Ally gets about 60% the benchmarked performance of the more expensive Ally when plugged in. There's also a significant drop when not plugged in, but less severe (only about a 20% drop in fps). Source

I suppose the real question is how does it compare to a Steam Deck at that price, and if the drop in power is worth the price difference.

[-] Cort@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

iirc they're all similar amd chips but the steam deck has the lowest performance by a small margin. But the steam deck uses less overhead with Linux.

[-] Joelk111@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Yeah, those two are debatable at best, but the other points sure make a lot of sense, and definitely have value. I say this as a SteamDeck user who never even considered the Ally for myself.