Customer Ratings & Reviews

I was torn between the Ally and the Steam deck. I'm glad I chose the Ally. It's amazing and so fun to game on and tinker with. It's a full on windows 11 pc in your hand that can play any AAA title with ease. Next upgrade will be a larger SSD and a better travel case. I'm not a huge fan of the official Rog one.

Ill be traveling for a while so this is exactly what I needed in a step up over the steam deck. The screen is SO much better than the deck, and ill really appreciate that as I go. I'd say that if you didnt care about the slight perfromance gain / screen and currently have a Deck you should probably stick with that

Amazing device!! Exceeded all expectations. The only gripe I have is the sd card reader. I really hope mine doesn’t fry my card. Gets very hot in that area, would recommend ssd upgrade over using sd cards!

Amazing portable PC/gaming system. I own the steam deck and this system is miles and miles above it. The screen looks so much better 30 watt tdp allows me to play recent AAA games on it. I will be selling my steam deck shortly. The only thing is typical widows issues but you get used to them fast.

This thing is so much better than the Steam Deck! You can do everything on the go as you would your computer. Only draw back is short battery life when AAA gaming. I bought an Anker portable power bank which certainly helps. Wouldn't sell this for anything, Or at least until the Ally 2 comes out.

ROG Ally is indeed, my ALLY! This blows the Steam Deck out of the water with it's ease of being able to play any video game that can be played on PC. No learning curve if you're familiar with PC gaming. Use this every week while traveling and it's the best thing I've purchased!

For its age and equipment it does the job. As long as you dont expect to play 2025 aaa at max setting

Exactly what I wanted, highly recommend. Like having stronger switch.

Honestly this thing is a beast for gaming on the go!! Has it’s issues like anything else but nothing to bad.

Insanely handy little device, would recommend using a keyboard and mouse while doing install work though… with Frame generation; this unit is very capable…

Phenomenal! It's a new device. Most of the issues are windows issues as well. I believe things will get better overall with this handheld. This has replaced my consoles already. People talk about the battery life as well. Someone said the fastest car is not going to have the best gas mileage! Remember that!

Good for Fortnite as a handheld gaming pc. Gets hot and to get decent fps to play at least 60fps consistently. In the end the battery life was only 1hr and for the money just not worth it.

If I were to consider buying a hand held console today, I would think again about buying this one. The set up on games can be clunky, not all games work with it, and battery life is OK not great. It is practical to just have around but not sure it was worth it. Asus is great with support if needed but it’s also kind of niche so can be hard to find certain instructions, especially when it comes to set up for games.

Screen / picture quality is amazing. Smooth gaming experience Sounds great Runs windows which can be a plus or minus depending on the user and their knowledge of how to use windows. This is a full blown mini gaming PC. If you don't wanna use the built in controller buy a dock and connect it to your tv and use a Regular gaming controller Asus makes one for this. It doesn't have to be used as a handheld, you can use the included little dock and just use it to watch Netflix, YouTube etc. This isn't a console for kids. This is an adult console, meaning you have to read instructions on screen and follow directions, some games you may have to map your own buttons, so not for kids plus it has full windows so theirs that. Mature older teen 16+ sure great gift. So while it may look like a Nintendo Switch I would definitely not recommend this for younger kids or anyone that does not intend to put in the work with windows updates, and navigating, installing all of the gaming services. You can also upgrade the internal SSD if the included 512 isn't enough for you.

This is the first gaming system I’ve bought since the white xbox one sunset overdrive in 2014.. This is a great device. I feel like it has some software issues for sure that will be eventually worked out. Good to go.

Let me preface this with, for standard users, this is not ideal or streamlined to setup. Asus has MANY bugs to work out. Upon initial setup, I couldn't get past OOBE for windows when trying to unit the password for my WiFi. Why? Because the onscreen keyboard didnt populate, as is common. You can force it up by holding tye rear bumper buttons and. Pushing up on rhe Dpad simultaneously, but i had to google that answer. Or you can connect it to a dock and external KB/Mouse and workaround it. Either way, highly annoying and terrible programming from Asus. Then, Armoury Crate continued to crash wanna pop up black acreens subsequently during setup. Overall, i spent 3 hours doing setup, and I'm a power user in Windows. I can only imagine how long it would take a normal user, or how many people just returned it. Likely why there are are a TON of openbox offerings in my locale now. Add in that PS Remote play isnt natively compatible and you gave to install Chiaki or otgerwise, and its a high fidget device that is definitely not ready for the general public. That being said, once you do get it all set, it looks great and plays well across PC games, Xbox, and even streaming. The lack of trackpads is annoying, but battery life is decent, and it is much more powerful than steamdecks top model in comparison.

Its a good product. I think it still has a lot to figure out especially the out of box setup. However, it will run anything you throw at it and with the new bios update it runs with maximum performace. I have never owned a steam deck but this is a great alternative in my opnion if you have the cash for it.

Overheats and the SD card slot stopped working, otherwise it isnt terrible and plays games well at 1080 120hz.

I definitely love this thing, way better than a steam deck in my opinion

I love this thing! The performance is great. I play games like RDR2, Cyberpunk 2077, and many more. I also use it for emulation (including yuzu) which works wonderfully. The internal gyro is compatible with motion controls which is cool.