Customer Ratings & Reviews

If you need a hand or want a hand held this thing is a beast. Cyberpunk 2077 1080p on med settings and fsr balance, i get consistent 35-40fps. I can drop it to 720p and get around 55fps. If you tweak this right and run at 15w, it handles almost anything at playable frame rate.

Great device!! much more powerful than the steamdeck and loaded with features. Your entire Pc arsenal of games is at your hand. The biggest downside is the battery life but in all truth this feels more like a handheld laptop than a handheld console. Still, I would highly recommend.

Great handheld device the only con is poor battery life otherwise great device

Great hand held console. I was able to play the games that i like without my laptop that i usually use. Definitely can use a lot o the gaming apps as well to play your games from. Definitely recommend this console if you want to play your games on the move.

The Asus Ally is a interesting device with a great deal of potential. It a full windows 11 experience. Unfortunately it's stuck between being a hand held gaming device and a PC. The Ally doesn't know exactly what it wants to be. Playing the menus will give you better performance, and battery life. You really need to come at this as a PC first and a hand held second if you want the most out of this. You can't treat this as a Steam Deck because that is a different beast all together. You can approach it as a gaming device first and some people are forgetting that. My biggest complaint about the Ally is the battery is garbage. There is some other nuances with the device that can be fixed with firmware updates. Overall I've enjoyed my time with the Ally.

It was a bit confusing at first for us, but once we got used to it, my son has loved it for gaming. We bought it as a travel Xbox for him.

Has performed up to my expectations, screen fps is unbelievable. Only thing keeping this device from getting a 5 star is battery length. If you want top performance you will have to leave it plugged in.

I really like the hair hair game. It is very easy to tow around and very light.

The beauty of a steam deck is that it just works. The Ally, being based around a Windows OS, means that day to day use comes with more bugs and quirks, but overall its worth the added effort to have the flexibility. The extra processor power with rhe extreme chip doesn't just feel like an upgrade, it's borderline required for a good experience. I wouldn't recommend going with the slower processor, even if it costs you battery life. When it's working well the ROG Armoury is a fine games launcher, but sometimes it's easier to just open Steam or Epic. Where the system loses points for me is the mechanics of using Windows. The touchscreen is a saving grace of the system as it the windows experience does not translate to joysticks. If Asus could reslly focus on getting this part of the system right, it would be the clear best gaming handheld. But it's still worth the hassle.

Excellent system!! Used all the way until the Xbox ally came out, not a single problem with it. Audio quality is pretty amazing as well.

Best gaming portable device. I also have the steam deck and this one beats it. The screen is the best part of the ROG! It's also compatible with more games without fiddling. The ergonomics are a bit worse than the steam deck. Battery life is as expected. The sound is amazing.

Absolutely love having a portable pc this small. It’s great for gaming but also great for almost anything else you’d want to do on a PC. Word processing, video editing (best with mouse and bigger monitor but still works in a pinch), and so much more. Highly recommend! My only complaint is that the controller is lopsided. Wish the sticks were parallel and not one higher up on the controller. It’s not comfortable for me but I know a lot of people don’t care either controller layout.

Love it. Works great runs fast. I’m constantly on the road away from my pc so this is a huge help for those boring downtimes away from home. Would love it even more if it possessed more storage and vram but what you get is still very useful.

Nice portable system to play games on, easy to use and setup.

Way better than a steam deck. It’s a simple windows computer operated with a controller. It runs a lot of games on high and ultra setting without any problems. Battery is not amazing but it’s performance makes up for it.

Windows is both the ROG Ally’s biggest strenth and weakness, in my opinion. Native compatibility with all the various digital storefronts is obviously a big one-up on the Steam Deck, but there’s no denying that the Deck has a more streamlined interface and intuitive user experience. Neither one is as dead simple as a PS5 or Xbox, but it took me significantly longer to get the Ally up and running than when I originally setup my Steam Deck. That said, the ROG Ally is clearly superior in horsepower, and the native compatibility with all the digital storefronts (not to mention PC Game Pass) means its the better choice in my book.

I love it! Runs pretty much any game I put on it. The battery life could be better especially for the price you’re paying. I also wish it had a black version. White gets dirty pretty quick

The gaming experience is good, while the unit works. The screen is phenominal, and the unit performs well. The control scheme is a pain and armoury crate frequently has issues changing controller schemes. The sd card reader will go out on you eventually, and the unit is plagued with power issues. My unit lasted around 20 days before it refused to recognize any charger and power up. The RMA process is the worst I have experienced from a tech company so far, and I have dealt with just about all of them.

I like to use it to play some steam games, you can lie down to play, play while waiting, and can also connect to the TV, watching movies and playing games are very good.

no complaints. best gaming purchase i’ve made in a while.