ASUS announces their own handheld pc

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Still a big fan of the Steam Deck, but its inability to play games like Destiny, Roblox, Minecraft, PUBG, or Fortnite, leaves huge opening for competition. For $700, I'm on it day one. I'll probably end up re-signing up for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate too. I also will be looking forward to finishing Splinter Cell: Conviction, which doesn't work on Steam Deck.
 

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Still a big fan of the Steam Deck, but its inability to play games like Destiny, Roblox, Minecraft, PUBG, or Fortnite, leaves huge opening for competition. For $700, I'm on it day one. I'll probably end up re-signing up for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate too. I also will be looking forward to finishing Splinter Cell: Conviction, which doesn't work on Steam Deck.

Steamdeck will always be legendary for putting the spotlight in this field. Competition is always a good thing and we know Steamdeck 2/Switch 2 are coming eventually.

But yea for me personally this is ticking all the right boxes. I'm on this day 1! Especially if I can just preorder and pick up at Best buy.

Now just waiting on this controller to eventually release.
 

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Those eGPUs are stupid expensive. That said, I would love to use my old Razer Core X with it.
Yeah it’s $2K for the 4090 eGPU. But for like $2700 you could have a killer portable gaming setup for your TV. I’m strongly considering it. I like my Deck, but it’s mainly an emulation machine for me and some handheld (like HiFi Rush). If I could play in 4K at 120fps on my TV, which the 4090 can do (at least on my gaming pc), that’s impressive. I worry about the cpu though. I wonder if it’ll be a bottleneck. Same with the cable from the eGPU to the Ally. I’ll wait on some benchmarks, but a portable 4090 setup that you could plug into any TV would be very nice. $2700 is cheaper than building a small form case setup with a 4090 and a CPU, Mobo, ram, etc.
 

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I'm hearing $699, they pulled a George Foreman Grill PS3 launch with that pricing... :heh:

You can't price a handheld more than a PS5 and as much as a 4070 bruh...
 

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I'm hearing $699, they pulled a George Foreman Grill PS3 launch with that pricing... :heh:

You can't price a handheld more than a PS5 and as much as a 4070 bruh...

 

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Do you know anyone who owns that shyt? :heh:

There is a reason the SD did numbers and has mainstream appeal, that reason is balance between performance and pricing...

No handheld should cost more than a console...
 

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They have a fanbase

Jud Buechler had a fanbase, played with :mjgrin: and won 3 NBA titles...

You probably never heard of him though just like nobody ever heard of a ayano...

Their userbase is virtually non-existent like their profit margin...If the $300 Steam Deck didn't exist, that shyt would be the same status...People were literally waiting 6+ months for the $300 joint to restock when the other two models were readily available...
 

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Jud Buechler had a fanbase, played with :mjgrin: and won 3 NBA titles...

You probably never heard of him though just like nobody ever heard of a ayano...

Their userbase is virtually non-existent like their profit margin...If the $300 Steam Deck didn't exist, that shyt would be the same status...People were literally waiting 6+ months for the $300 joint to restock when the other two models were readily available...

I don't know ayaneo sale figures
 

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The Ally can use eGPUs




If you buy an external gpu then hook up your Ally to your TV, this could be a great TV computer setup

Sounds uber promising... battery life will be the key.

Still a big fan of the Steam Deck, but its inability to play games like Destiny, Roblox, Minecraft, PUBG, or Fortnite, leaves huge opening for competition. For $700, I'm on it day one. I'll probably end up re-signing up for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate too. I also will be looking forward to finishing Splinter Cell: Conviction, which doesn't work on Steam Deck.

I have Roblox working on my SD. Fortnite I just use Gamepass, it's free on that (Play Fortnite | Xbox Cloud Gaming (Beta) on Xbox.com)

The others are legit... Minecraft is absolutely a huge one.

I almost installed Windows on my SD but I just don't want to deal with it.
 

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