Microsoft and ASUS Open Xbox Ally preoorders – The X costs $ 999

Nowadays Microsoft and ASUS officially open performances for the Rog Xbox Ally and Rog Xbox Ally X For $ 599 and $ 999 in the US respectively. They are $ 799 CAD and $ 1299 CAD in Canada, € 599 and € 899 in Europe, £ 499 and £ 799 in the UK and $ 799 AUD and $ 1599 AUD in Australia. They will both be sent on October 16.

There are a few different ways to look at those prices. If you are used to comforting prices, the first Xbox handhelds from Microsoft are not cheap! Even the Vanilla White Xbox Ally costs $ 150 more than a Switch 2, which itself was criticized for the price, and it costs $ 100 more than a much more powerful Xbox series X did with the launch in the US, Microsoft’s new Xbox price increase despite. In Europe and the UK, the weaker of the two allies costs the same as an Xbox series X.

But you can’t play That Xbox in a passenger seat. And if you are or want to be a PC gamer, it looks a bit Rosker. These “Xbox” handhelds will be the first with A new build of windows The desktop and the Explorer shell, Gobs or Memory hides this for your games and lets you (hopefully) navigate by the controller (hopefully).

Handhelds have unfortunately been Pricier And how things anyway, to the point that flagship now costs just as much as gaming laptops. For $ 999, the Xbox Ally X can compare well with the $ 999 MSI Claw 8 AI Plus or the $ 1,349 Lenovo Legion Go 2 That offers the same AMD Z2 Extreme chip that you will find here – especially since my colleagues and I agree that the new ally has one of the most comfortable designs we have kept. (In summary: Teeth Rock.)

Just know that you get a wildcard if you choose the $ 599 ally, because it contains a previously seen Ryzen Z2 a processor that looks much more like the chip in the steam deck. Instead of 8 Zen 5 CPU nuclei and 16 RDNA 3.5 GPU nuclei designed to run between 15 and 35 Watt TDP, you get 4 Zen 2 CPU nuclei and 8 RDNA 2 GPU cores that are designed to run between 6 and 20 Watt for lower performance dam to.

We are planning to have reviews of the Xbox Ally and Xbox Ally X in the coming weeks.

Microsoft says they will be available in Australia, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Sweden, Tailand, the Turkey, the Okraite, the Okraite, the Okraite, the Okraite, the Okraite, the Okraite, the Okraite, the Okraite, the Okraite, the Okraite, the Okraite, the Okraite, the Okraite, the Okraite, the Okraite, the Oekrean, the Oekrean, the Oekrean, Ukreante, Ukreante, Ukreante, Ukreante, Ukreante, Ukreante, Ukreante, Ukreans, Ukrean United States and Vietnam – and will also come to Brazil China, India, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Philippines and Switzerland.