Asus ROG Xbox Ally releases August with excessive value, in response to leaks
The Asus ROG Xbox Ally, the hand held that pairs Asus {hardware} with Microsoft branding, is definitely… one thing. It’s Microsoft’s massive play to counter the Steam Deck within the exploding handheld gaming PC house, to say nothing of attempting to increase its Xbox model past consoles and leverage the Recreation Cross subscription. However when will you really be capable to purchase one, and for the way a lot?
Other than a obscure 2025 launch date, we don’t know a lot. However we do know that the ROG Xbox Ally and its extra highly effective X variant will likely be on public show at Gamescom 2025, a commerce present in Germany going down in late August. In keeping with leaks from French tech web site Dealabs (through VideoCardz), the Xbox presentation on August twentieth will embrace a gap salvo of pre-orders for the Asus handheld.
The alleged value, a minimum of for the second, is €599 (about $690 USD) for the ROG Xbox Ally and €899 (about $1,030 USD) for the ROG Xbox Ally X, although who is aware of what tariffs and native variables may do to relative costs. That stated, it could put the brand new Asus handhelds in across the similar value bracket as different Home windows-based moveable gaming PCs, although significantly costlier than the older Steam Deck. And taking Microsoft at its phrase that these Home windows-based devices are, certainly, Xboxes, it could make the ROG Xbox Ally X the most costly Xbox console by far.
However the ROG Xbox Ally shouldn’t be a console, or an Xbox, a minimum of by the purest definition. It’s operating Home windows 11, although Microsoft isn’t too eager on promoting that. To be truthful, these new handhelds are getting semi-exclusive interface and efficiency tweaks to make gaming and fundamental duties simpler on a small touchscreen, one thing of a ache level for almost all of those Ryzen-based units. The tweaks will likely be out there to different Home windows handhelds beginning in 2026.
