This article is just plain bad. The author’s own conclusion contradicts the headline.
The Steam Deck has finally been surpassed
I don’t think I would personally buy an Asus ROG Ally X over a Steam Deck, at least not now.
In the end, I don’t think I would ever consider a handheld gaming PC without trackpads.
Just slop articles without much of a point except to trick people into clicking on them for ad revenue
No OLED. More expensive than a Deck. Lame.
Don’t forget the lack of touchpads! Good luck with anything that isn’t controller supported on top of that
I seriously doubt that ASUS put any focus on making it user serviceable either. I really want a Deck, but I’m waiting for refurbished units to be back in stock because the price difference is just too big to justify a brand new unit.
Can’t blame ya; used from Valve is the way to go if you can! Good cost savings :)
Add to this asus
I’m sure this is not a sponsored story. What are the Verge team doing next, building a custom PC?
I just know they’ll put a completely normal amount of thermal paste on the CPU.
Does it have a proper suspend/resume function for games? For me, that’s pretty much the benchmark for reaching a “Steam Deck-level” experience. But I think none of the other handhelds have it.
the deck does this SO cleanly that now i get surprised when suspending my laptop breaks games.
like that’s the expected behavior, valve has me so spoiled.
As a console/handheld gamer I am not impressed by said feature… But would you care to explain why it does not work on a PC!?
A more fragmented OS/driver/GPU/firmware stack means less reliable suspend/resume. It’s prettu tricky to make sure everything is restored to the proper state that all parts are expecting. If not, crash.
I guess you are right, I am not a PC gamer, but heck I want to be… Good to have this in mind though… I suppose the saving features of the current games help for this situation.
i think psp did it first for handhelds, i know the suspend feature was a talking point when it launched. consoles didn’t get it until xbone iirc. it’s kinda wild how long it’s taken to be a regular feature!
i know this doesn’t answer your question at all, i just thought it was interesting hahah
Yeah, I find it interesting too…
PSP and Vita handheld this feature better than DS and 3DS yeah, regardless it was a more than welcome future :p
I kinda remember it was a feature in the PS3 too? But you might be right about Xbox One and PS4… Because I remember being lazy turning on my PS3 and knowing it didn’t have many background tasks (like downloading updates and such).
Now that I think about it, some Chinese handhelds (like the Miyoo Mini which uses Linux) do not have the suspend feature (like android handhelds) we are talking about, the workaround for that one is nice though, it actually creates a save state then it turns off the screen and audio for several minutes, then it eventually powers off and when you turn it on it loads again the last game played and quick loads the save state (with Onion OS). I don’t expect something like that coming for PC games, but heck, something must be done lol.
Yes.
No thanks I’ll just wait for the Deck 2.
Avoid ASUS like the bubonic plague.
Every PC in my house except for my hypervisor has an Asus motherboard. No thanks, I’ll continue using what I’ve used for two decades without issue, thanks.
I’ve had 3 of their motherboards die, one came without the USB3 header properly attached, and each time they wanted me to pay them for replacements.
I had a phone of theirs, the motherboard died and they wanted $300 for the replacement. It took 8 months for them to send the phone back to me and it was still broken, parts of the phone that were working like RGB and NFC no longer were.
