The ROG Ally X20 is principally the identical handheld with OLED and gold trim

The Asus Xbox ROG Ally X is arguably probably the most high-profile PC gaming handheld from a serious provider, rivaled solely by the Lenovo Legion Go 2. In order it’s wont to do, Asus has determined to offer it a little bit of a lift. The brand new X20 mannequin upgrades the design with an OLED display, new management enhancements, and… some gold trim. Should you had been ready to listen to a chip improve on the finish of that checklist, maintain ready.

Downer be aware apart, the OLED improve is certainly welcome, bringing Asus in keeping with Valve and Lenovo on the excessive finish. It’s ever-so-slightly larger at 7.4 inches, and brighter (a minimum of at peak brightness) with 1,400 nits. The decision and refresh charge stay the identical at 1080p and 120Hz, respectively. Asus says it has a brand new cooling resolution to guard the panel as effectively. Elsewhere the gadget will get new drift-proof TMR thumbsticks and a “remodeling D-pad.” The pad doesn’t come off like a premium controller, however rotate it 90 levels and you may swap between 4-axis and 8-axis controls. That needs to be an enormous boon to combating sport followers.

The X20 swaps out the all-black housing for retro translucent black plastic, with gaudy gold trim across the thumbsticks and on accent buttons. The Xbox button additionally glows inexperienced. However beneath the floor is similar system we’ve been utilizing for the higher a part of a 12 months: a Ryzen AI Z2 Excessive (8 cores/16 threads) with spectacular built-in graphics, 24GB of DDR5 RAM, 1TB of storage, and, for higher or worse, Home windows 11. Should you weren’t bought on the Xbox Ally X the primary time round, you most likely received’t be satisfied right here, irrespective of the worth. And those that have a watch on efficiency will most likely wish to wait to see how these new Intel Arc G3 handhelds measure up.

And what’s the worth? We don’t know. We additionally don’t know when it’ll land. The Xbox Ally X and its little non-X brother appear to be the final main PC gaming handhelds to withstand large RAM-crisis worth will increase, sitting at their authentic $1,000 and $600 costs even after the Steam Deck shot up by an enormous margin. However I doubt that stickiness will survive a brand new mannequin.

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Asus additionally introduced an accompanying accomplice product, the ROG XReal R1 Version 20 Gaming AR Glasses. These seem like the identical augmented actuality show glasses because the ROG Xreal R1 revealed at CES again in January, simply with a little bit of gold trim to match the X20 handheld. Plug them into the USB-C port on the Ally (or any suitable Home windows system, amongst many others) to get a floating heads-up show with 1080p decision, 240Hz of refresh, and as much as 171 inches of digital dimension. The common ROG XReal R1 prices $850, so presumably it’ll be across the similar or barely extra for the particular version.