Microsoft's handheld spin on Asus's ROG Ally device has finally had its price revealed. The ROG Xbox Ally X, due out next month on October 16th, will retail for a whopping $999.99 ($1,299 CAD/€899/£799/$1,599 AUD. The less powerful regular model Xbox Ally will retail for a less hefty $599.99 ($799 CAD/€599/£499/$799 AUD). Microsoft has waited to announce this, citing the US tariff situation as something that needed to be watched until they could put a price tag on the device. Pre-orders are now open through Microsoft, Best Buy, and ASUS. The Xbox Ally X will feature an AMD Ryzen Z2 Extreme CPU, 24GB of LPDDR5X-8000 RAM, a 1TB M.2 2280 m.2 drive, and a 1080p 120Hz screen. The standard Xbox Ally comes with a Z2 chip, 16GB of LPDDR5-6400 RAM, and a 512GB m.2 drive.

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[ChibiMofo]

Nintendo is SO greedy!

 

[BlusterBong]

Wow, way to ensure Switch 2 and Steam Deck sales never get undercut by the "Rog Ally but Xbox branded" ever Microsoft, you sure showed them.

 

[SK91]

People will inevitably treat this like a console and gawk at the price even though it's a handheld laptop.
Microsoft (even though Asus is fronting the hardware) can't reliably profit on game sales with this thing since it's an open platform. It's a PC so it gets a PC price, you're paying for the power with the form factor, if you can get a better PC or a laptop for that price, good for you they're your priorities. If you want a steam deck, it's getting a bit outdated and valve is in a position to actually continually profit from it so they'll always be cheaper.

 

[kuro0628neko]

At that point, you might as well go out on a nice weekend road trip while still spending less.

 

[HellGhast]

X-bot have this masterplan, instead of pulling a Sega & punk out of the market, they simply price out & alienate all their consumers & thus Micro$oft gets to save face

 

[Veho]

Other devices of this type cost $1500 so this is at the lower end of the range, but since it has "xbox" in the name everyone thinks it should cost less than an Xbox.

Just buy a Steam Deck

 

[fvig2001]

Wow and I thought the leaked price was high lol. Too bad handheld PC gaming's prices are just going higher and higher.

 

[ezkitty]

Valve will soon release the Steam Deck 2 when a better APU can be made. For sure will be hundreds of dollars cheaper. Microsoft will just increase the price again very soon

 

[Xzi]

Valve has to love Microsoft advertising the Steam Deck for them like this.

 

[K3Nv4]

Now it will flop

 

[Moe87]

I just found out that GPU in ROG Xbox Ally X is likely equivalent to outdated GeForce GTX 1650, so good luck to try play Borderlands 4 with constant 30 FPS.

My gaming laptop with GeForce RTX 3060 struggled to play Borderlands 4 smoothly, so got tons of shutter for while, so I had to increase the size for shader cache to lower the shader. It is very unoptimized game.

 

[Bladexdsl]

nintAPPLE was worried for a moment but now this is them when they saw the price

 

[ZeroT21]

LOL, Microsoft thinks they're the Apple of gaming

 

[Exnor]

DOA. Well some will have the money but c'mon, is MS high or what?

 

[DragonMals]

The ROG Xbox Ally X, due out next month on October 16th, will retail for a whopping $999.99 ($1,299 CAD/€899/£799/$1,599 AUD.

just get a steam deck.

i think that Microsoft has officially lost it: With making the Xbox Series X/S more pricier than ever and this being $600/$1000, investing in the company where than be cheaper and more viable alternatives is just making the company look more stupid and dumb.

 

[The Catboy]

Literally just buy a Steam Deck

 

[DiscostewSM]

Literally just buy a Steam Deck

Heck, for that price, you could buy both the 512GB Steam Deck OLED and a Switch 2.

 

[Jayro]

Yeah, that's just gonna sit on the shelf.

 

[SDA]

One thousand dollars. This is the most absurd price for a handheld I have ever witnessed.