Customer Ratings & Reviews

Honestly, one of the best purchases I've made. While it's marketed as a 'Gaming Handled', it's truly a compact ASUS ROG computer, loaded with Windows 11 and full desktop functionality. It's great for gaming, but it really is a PC that has a controller as it's housing. It runs games like BO6, Rivals and Fortnite seamlessly, while bigger more intensive games struggle sometimes if you're playing through Cloud. If you download them however, it runs just like a PS5 or Xbox. Would definitely recommend the purchase, grab an adapter and a monitor and have some fun.

Powerful hardware. Great screen. Can play wide variety of games. Limited battery life

AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme processor and 512GB storage offers a fantastic combination of great performance, portability, and stunning graphics. It's a machine that caters to both gamers and power users who need a versatile and travel-friendly machine without compromising on power and display quality.

Feels great in the hand. I like the design. Good performance. However, it kept not reading my sd-cards. And Window's explorer would often completely freeze. In addition, the Armory Crate software, while having good features and shortcuts, wouldn't always respond. I read around and tried a couple other alternative software, like Handheld Companion, and G-helper. These seemed good but not as easy and then some of the physical shortcut keys (for example, launching software, or bringing up the keyboard) weren't working. I like the idea of these devices, but at this time I think a laptop with a controller is 100x a better choice. Sadly there don't seem to be any laptops with new AMD chips in this price range.

You don't need an Asus Ally, but if you buy one you'll likely be happy you did. This assumes you have some money, and every PC gamer probably needs some of the green stuff. I enjoyed playing Diablo 4 on my new Ally, and was happy to see POE boot right up in controller mode. Similar also for Don't Starve Together. Windows may have you using the touch screen some, and I haven't tried the free Bluestacks Android experience, but if you need it, it's there too. This is the begging of a new segment that I do think will have some staying power. You should expect games will run at 24-60 fps, and not at 90 or 120. You'll also likely only get around an hour and a half of battery power based play. However, the 45 watt charger will refill the battery quick, and all ports are on the top of the deck and out of the way if you want to plug in and run in turbo mode. Charger is USB-C, so you'll want to use Bluetooth or an audio cable if you need a headset and to charge at the same time. Screen is nice and bright. Vents are well designed to keep any heat off your hands, and speakers are similarly well placed and sound good, if you are using without headphones. Rumble is also a nice touch. Expect this to do anything a value gaming laptop can do. Price is fair, and is comparable or better than similarly configured current and coming competition. Buy this device if you're a PC gamer who wants to play on the go, with or without an Internet connection.

Great platform. Pairing with a dock and adding a wireless keyboard/mouse, the device performs great. My only gripe is that it not only gets really warm(offset this with a dock with fan) and it’s vulnerable to malware/viruses. Aside from that, it is an awesome machine.

Amazing product for handheld gaming, best purchase I’ve made in a while. Handles most modern games fairly well with a bit of tweaking game settings.

Once you get it all updated and everything dialed in it is a good unit but I spent allot of time getting games to work. Luckily google was helpful on what needed to be changed for game settings in order for the game to even open. But once it worked it is an awesome handheld.

Super useful device for playing indie games and helping clear out your backlog of older AAA games. If you're more technically inclined the ability to stream to it from your main gaming PC is great.

The idea is really cool was hoping for alot sense it had AMD iGPU. Was a little disappointed. When ever I tried to use it it froze because of windows and memory issue i’m guessing. And the one demo I wanted to play in it kept crashing FF11 benchmark (that can run on a potato) and every time i ran it on high kept getting directX 3d crash. Installed direct X make it work on low setting not high. I think it needs a switch to make it use the controller as just a controller when your gaming as well. Still hoping for my handheld PC. I feel like its the netpicky market your going to sell this too and it’s just not there yet.

This things an absolute beast, doesn't come ready to go out of the box but after some set up and experimenting with different settings it is a gaming monster. The main complaint I have is the battery life is very very low for most games

Plays almost all modern games with out issues. Runs windows and is a great system. it is a bit heavy though for long gaming sessions and the battery life is dreadful. when playing a AAA game it can barely last an hour.

It's a good product to use on the go, with the capability of having your games that you own to play without internet. There is a issue that it has not enough storage, but it does has a micro sd card for more storage and it can accept external storage.

Performance is pretty good. I've been running any game I've wanted on medium for modern titles and higher with older ones. Only compaints are the limited storage space and battery life. To get the best performance it needs to be plugged in.

great handheld device, can access every game you can think of, only downside is the battery life. it gets about 45 minutes from 100% to where it needs to be plugged in to use it.

Basically plays whatever you want at at least 30fps nifty device. Speakers are nice and it's not uncomfortable to hold after a couple hours Not a fan of the d pad and joysticks aren't stiff which isn't necessarily bad but i prefer the feeling of something like ps3 joysticks, these feel loose in comparison.

This device has been one my favorite purchases in the last couple of years. It actually has become my laptop. I gave the device three stars because there are some things that could be better. All in all its pretty good. Pros: -Windows 11 so it compatible with most things that are compatible with windows11. -Awesome sound. ( I hardly have to go beyond 20 out of 100) -Awesome performance -Storage is upgradeable Cons: -*BATTERY LIFE* ( yes I meant all caps) -Sticks seem a bit light (I would like a bit more tension on them) -Factory Storage size ( Though its easy to upgrade) -Only one color to choose from

Some minor issues but those can easily be overlooked after seeing what this device can do. Would recommend

Sorry this is one big paragraph I typed this on my phone. this device is really good. I love a lot that it offers. I feel it just needs to bake a little longer. Hear me out.... It plays almost my entire steam deck, epic, game pass, gog, etc.. you can also emulate with it (would say the steam deck is better here). I have noticed some severe frame drops on AAA Games.this can be fixed by fps caps and dropping res to 720 instead of 1080. Some game ui is well difficult to navigate due to the way armory crate works. This is going to be really great once they get the bugs and ui fixed (as long as they stay with supporting it) if you like your windows based games this is a perfect device for those long trips, outside, etc. It very much feels like a small pc in my hands. If you are looking for that console feel go with the steam deck. I have both and play both daily i will say this is a great buy for any hardcore gamer. But if you wait until the bugs are all worked out it might be better. Hope this helped at least one person trying to decide on buying it.

This Ally is incredible. It is literally a PC in my hand. I've played games on it that run less than great on a laptop and it was smooth as butter. My only complaint is that it could use a little more battery life, bit it's not a terrible thing. It lasted approximately 2 hrs running a game in performance mode before it hit 10%. All in all, it's well worth the purchase.