I hear that the ROG is going to be a better product ultimately but a little more expensive. For all my eck owners out there, can you give me a rundown on what your experience thus far has been?
So is the Steam Deck worth it?
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If you're fine with dealing with shitty Windows experience on the go and ok controls for most pc games, then get the ROG Ally. If you want a nice console like experience that allows you to play almost any PC game (including genres that would normally require a mouse), then get a Deck.
If you wanna play low def indies then the steam deck is better because it has better performance at 10 - 15w iirc. The ROG is better at every other power level, it's also more expensive and the pc handheld market is pretty fast moving.
So unless you're in the navy and you're about to deploy for a long time, I'd say wait until 'next better thing' comes. I doubt we're going to see significant leaps like we did with the steam deck anytime soon though.
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got an eck and a 2TB ssd
im eating good
I've barely used mine but it's pretty damn cool.
Going overseas in a few months so it'll be great on the plane and wherever i'm staying. building my catalogue.
also, those autists complaining about the screen not being OLED are delusional. screen is fine except for being fragile as fuck. get a screen protector.
wait for steam deck 2, the screen sucks and the battery is shit.
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Ok moron
>I hear that the ROG is going to be a better product ultimately
absolutely not. it's more powerful, but apart from that it's worse in every way.
all the same guy
not even. i do have a steam deck and it's not perfect (the screen is kinda ass), and the ally has some upsides in performance, but downsides for controls, software, and support. the steam deck having spare parts available and regular updates makes it by far the best handheld pc in my opinion, over the Asus or the chink ones.
if you want the higher performance, the ally is still a great deal for the price. it's just not "a better product" in general.
Ally is a power hungry piece of shit
It wouldn't be a problem if Asus didn't stupidly use the exact same battery the Steam Deck is using. Especially since at lower wattages, the Ally is outperformed by the Deck.
>I hear that the ROG is going to be a better product ultimately
lmao who told you this?
>trusting ASSUS chinks who lie constantly
lol
>using ASSUS software
LMAO
>using AYUSSUS hardware
ENJOY YOUR STUCK BUTTONS gay
>trusting ASSUS
This, they are still improving BIOS to the AM5 chips, six month since their shitty motherboard are selling.
>the ROG is going to be a better product ultimately but a little more expensive
It has better specs. Better product depends on how much you value those specs because it has a lot of other downsides compared to the deck.
>"I hear that the ROG is going to be a better product ultimately but a little more expensive"
>Linus Shill Tips
>paid review 100%
>no words on battery life at 1080p
>no words on battery life at 120hz
>outperform the deck by a significat margin at 25w
>no trackpads
>shit software
>still gets fucked at low wattage
lol, lmao even
>buying Anus in 2024
Good morning Ms. Marketer. ASUS is dogshit now. They’ve been replaced by ASROCK, which means no one trusts ASUS now as it’s become the Walmart of hardware.
The deck would be unusable without the trackpads so I don't really see how the Ally is worth buying.
This. Missing the rear buttons would be a bitch, but survivable.
But missing a proper inbuilt mouse? Fuck outta here.
do some fakin squats m8
You can emulate everything so yes, its basically a ps2/gamecube portable
>and ok controls for most pc games, then get the ROG Ally.
>ok controls
>pc games
Good joke.
>no trackpads
Bugmen aren't even hiding it anymore.
OP, if you want
>console ports
>1 hour battery life
Then the ANUS ROG is what you want.
Anything else (playing Civ5-6 on the go? Playing Starcraft on the go? Playing literally any PC exclusive on the go?) get the Deck.
Or just listen to us non-retards and do this: Get the Deck. The ANUS is not worth shit and the fact that retards like Linus Sebastian are big upping it because "IT HAS WINDOWS!!!!!!" because they got blown the fuck out on babies first Linux shows the ANUS's target market.
You're not a retard, are you, OP?
Without trackpads, the ROG is basically useless to me.
The base model Deck blows the Ally out of the water value-wise. Spend $399 on a Deck and a bit more on a 1 TB microSD card and you're winning.
wait for deck v2
because people ask the same questions over and over again, and the replies don't change.
>Hundreds of threads with the same questions
>Why do the answers not differ?
Big schizo brain moment.
Well cuz valve pays like <50 posters to post about steam deck every day in Ganker or social media forum
Because it’s shill post, brainiac. This board is inundated with paid marketing shills who use it for free advertising.
Any and everyone who knows anything about building computers/hardware knows ASUS has gone down the shitter and is no longer a reputable and viable option, which means the ROG will be shit.
>Why do all these Steam Deck threads
Do you think Ganker has an infinite number of untapped users interested in PC handhelds? If you go to PC handheld threads everyday then you are basically just seeing the same people talking about the same things.
>I hear that the ROG is going to be a better product ultimately but a little more expensive.
Taki just dropped a full 24m comparison video.
'eck on 'ick
ROG has slightly better performance on most games.
However.
It comes at the cost of battery life, which is substantially worse than the Steam Decks already low battery life, and thermals. The Steam Deck even running high end AAA games that will burn through the batter in like an hour won't get the Deck that hot. You run any game that is remotely heavy on the specs on the ROG and that fucker heats up to where it's nearly unplayable due to the heat off the back of the unit burning your hands.
It also doesn't have the same SteamOS software that makes the Steam Deck go from a portable windows machine to a flat out portable Steam machine.
They should have just gone all in on battery life. The AOKZOE A1 Pro has what is basically the same chip as the Ally but they went all in with a 65wh battery and well look at the battery life Retro Game Corps got picrel. Keep in mind that the Deck at 15w gets less than 2h and you'll get maybe 3h at 11w. I mean everyone keeps bragging about the Decks battery life at 11w, AOK pulls those numbers when the TDP is set to 15w. You can actually take advantage of those 12 RDNA3 cores at 20w tdp and still get a couple of hours. ROG should have done this.
That said, not recommending it, it is AOKZOE so if you buy it don't expect support when it breaks lol.
Half the mongoloids posting here aren’t even sentient
you anti-shills are wrong. valve doesn't pay for shills. valve's a cult and valvefags do it for free.
Neat system overall
>Excellent ergonomic grip and size (ymmv obviously)
>Battery life could be better but it depends on what you play in any case
>Meh d-pad that has improved over time by breaking it in
>Worst color reproduction of any modern IPS panel I've seen (around 64% sRGB), and that doesn't even account for the backlight bleed lottery
There is a third party replacement screen with a 1200p >98% sRGB panel in the works so hopefully that paves the way to someone making a kit for something like the AMS699VC01 (Switch OLED panel)
>Trackpads are a game changer for me though the analog pressure is arguably pointless - I don't know if many users are even aware the trackpads are pressure sensitive, I wasn't until I tested it (would be neat if PCSX2 or RPCS3 could directly hook into this for pressure sensitive d-pad and face buttons)
Is there a way to throttle wattage in desktop mode?
Windows is killing it ultimately.
Unironically the best portable and linux is pretty good