Customer Ratings & Reviews

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.

At the initial turn on it was rough but after doing the updates and a few weeks later it’s been phenomenal been playing Diablo 4 and I am loving it battery could have been better.

It will cook micro sd cards, making so they may get stuck in the console or melt in the console. Game play wise hasn't said no to any game i have played on it.

Pr order my ally on announcement day. Best handheld gaming rig by far. I do not own a steam deck, I did not like steams software (personal reasons) and they launched with terrible specs. I do own backbone and Cloud system. The Ally has solved many problems I’ve had over the years trying to get “mobile” PC gaming. ROG Ally is awesome. My two issues why not 5* as everyone else, battery life, however I knew going into and will be connected to a wall most of the time with my 9’ foot cable. Second, RAM. Why oh why ASUS did you not put 32gb or allow upgrade. 16gb too low for gaming and experience crashing due to other systems not having enough RAM. All in all, happy to see the bar set decently High, for other competitors.. give us more RAM and upgradable analog sticks.

The display is amazing. The speakers are loud and very clear. The OS is windows so don’t expect perfection since we’ll it’s windows OS. Battery life is so-so really depends what you’re playing. Also, if you put an sd card in it there’s a set up process so go to YouTube and find tutorials.

Superb gaming experience. Playing triple A games on the go is a blessing. I have a very busy schedule so the only way I can game sometimes is on a portable device. It’s more than worth the asking price. Phenomenal display, great refresh rate, armory crate is pretty awesome.

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.

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.

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.

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.

After a year of usage, I would definitely recommend this beast! Had a great time during travel especially during flight journey! Battery backup is descent.

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.

It is a very good device. Great for playing pc games or really any kind of game on the go

Love this thing, great performance in a really small form factor. Easy to upgrade or do maintenance on it. The only issue I've had with it is that a bit of hair builds up under the sticks over time, but that's a really easy flx.

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.

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.

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.

Runs everything you need to like a champ. Also it's windows 11, so that's a bonus. Games such as Tekken 8 have locked 60fps on medium. Baldur's gate 3 split-screen coop works at 30+ on low. Street fighter 6 gets locked 60 at high-ultra settings. This little machine worked well at the $600 I bought it for, to see it go even lower makes it so much more accessible. I am not the biggest fan of its D-Pad for fighting games, however I mostly use external controllers. Storage is 512 gb, so it is upgradable if you tear it apart, or slap an SD card in it. I recommend the Rog Ally Z1E, even if you don't want to spring for the X.

Great device can take it anywhere and less bulky then a computer