Sooo. What's the point of this device? If you aren't going to do the bare minimum of following Xbox's colored face buttons, Guide button, or even DPad shape... I don't get it. To show how little the brand means?

If it's just to debut a friendlier app interface, then that should just be available to all Win11 handhelds through a windows update.

Fake? It looks like they modded a playstation portal to look like a XBOX controller with screen. XD

It seems like a early prototype to me

Why do they look like a 3 year old who eats with their hands was playing with them?

It might be a decent rental device.

I likes 👍🏽! A little underwhelming looks wise but looks solid.

Sounds expensive, it’s going to struggle to sell when the casuals will stick to the far cheaper and optimised for Switch 2. I love my Ally X but this is going to be approaching 5060 laptop territory in pricing.

is ugly

off design choice

With dedicated Xbox button...so is this what we can expect from Xbox then for a handheld? Even if this isn't the one, they are just going to give us a ROG Ally with the Xbox OS? That then has to compete with the Steam Deck. Valve better get their butts in gear and get a new Steam Deck out if they want to compete.

Wish z2 extreme had ai tops to run fsr 4, then it would have been day one buy for me. Currently I'm playing mostly indie or aa games on ally x and everything else on 5090, so im just gonna wait for amd mobile chip with fsr 4 capability before upgrading.

Some say price is gonna be $900, and it's absolutely ridiculous to play that way AAA titles.
I just don't get this hand held craze.

Don't really trust ASUS these days. Unless they are giving the worlds most generous warranty it is a hard pass from me.

Rog Ugly

Jade and Harrison were Execs there right? Fail reason #4

Stadia failed for two simple reasons.
1. Google didn't know how to market it in a way that made sense. It's 2025 and people still don't understand some aspects of Stadia (thinking you need to pay a subscription AND buy games for example. Just look at ChrimsonWing69's comment for proof). Google clearly missed the mark on marketing leading to people not wanting to try it out because they didn't understand the model.
2. Google thought they knew better than the market they were trying to break into. Litterally everyone was hoping stadia would be a "netflix of gaming" or similar to GamePass Ultimate where you just have a huge library for one monthly cost. But google refused to listen to the market demand and instead went a traditional model of selling games.

The best you could do is have a sub model for single player games.

Well, all I know is that I can stream my entire steam library to my device while at work on break, WITH NO SUBSCRIPTION TO ANYTHING. Here's looking at you Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo, and whomever else says that you need to subscribe.

It was stupid idea. Everyone got lucky they got paid that much for such a stupid idea.

Cloud gaming blows. It is an irritating scam.

Remember that in a perfect world where Cloud gaming works flawlessly and never lags (100% impossible but…) in that world all you have is another sub service, just like the ones I don’t want today.

My internet probably is good enough for a consistent experience, plus, the latency would probably be too much for me, I would never consider cloud gaming for these reasons.

My enjoyment of streaming is entirely circumstantial if I'm playing a rpg such as like a dragon infinite wealth I find latency doesn't hurt my enjoyment at all but I can't play a shooter with it like doom eternal.

I use ps remote play with a 1gbps link and cat 6 to a gaming router and using this I can stream outside of my house to 4g quite comfortably.

I've traveled and played this setup when away for work quite a bit from various hotel rooms it works well maybe not as consistent as a switch but you work with what you got.

I've also used Xbox streaming and it's fine but you're limited to their offering which sucks so I find myself using remote play more often than not to access my ps5

it does not Need to succeed wth ha

it failed cause cloud gaming sucks for the majority, especially when it came out.

not many have the connection the experience a lagfree haming experience and sooo many games require perfect input.

It's failure is because of three very simple reasons...

1. Requiring gamers to outright purchase their games AND pay a subscription fee just to play them is a terrible business model. You can ask us to pay one or the other, but not both! Yes I know they offered a "free" tier but it was at a shifty resolution no one wanted.

2. Stadia did not offer enough in the way of exclusive titles that couldn't be played elsewhere. You need that AT LAUNCH! You cant launch a service like Stadia and then ask gamers to wait until you accrue exclusive titles.

3. Nobody wants to stream games. Gamers prefer native gameplay experiences, period! No matter how good your streaming tech gets, it will always be inferior to playing games natively!

Will never support cloud gaming

Cloud gaming will never work! Internet and data caps will forever stop cloud gaming until those are fixed

Cloud gaming never.
Native gaming forever.

Because we already have MS and they have done enough damage to console gaming. No need for another mega corporation with zero heritage in entertainment.

Cloud gaming only works for certain types of games. 1, it can look bad, I tried NG2Black on my LG C4 and was unplayable. UE5 slop have a tendency to dither, speckle, and often times look blurry due to bad TAA. At 1080P with micro blocking, the speckle becomes a large block which makes a chunk of the screen unusable. I tried Indiana Jones since it's a slower game. Ok, the sneaking around portions were mostly ok, but whenever actions stepped, visually it broke apart, and stuttered. On top of that, like NG2B, the game is blurry on Cloud, very blurry as it's only 1080P or lower. I tried Gears of War 5 on my tablet, input lag, visuals not bad on a 12.7 inch screen. Again, too laggy to be considered worth wild. This is on 1 gig ISP service connected to my router at 1.2 gigs WIFI 6. I tried Indiana Jones hardwired on my XSX, it was a little sharper, slightly less breakup, but still no where near native. Like, if you need to hardwire the console to have a decent experience, just play it natively on the console for a superior experience. Cloud is not it, and everything is an Xbox, probably the worst marketing I've seen as MS gaming division is being ran by idiots. Sony tried cloud gaming as well, it failed. Stadia, failed, I think Steam or Nvidia have cloud service. I've not looked into it, but I don't think it's doing well.