| Sephiran said: Xbox ROG Ally, the reason why Microsoft is not porting their games to Switch 2 just opened preorders. Lets see if Microsoft's big bet that this will be a competitor to Switch 2 pays off, they are even moving away from their CoD on Switch 2 commitment to make as many people as possible buy the Xbox ROG Ally over a Switch 2. |
Xbox ROG Ally is not even a "PS6 handheld" competitor, which in turn won't be a Switch 2 competitor. SteamDeck vs PS6 handheld will be the closest thing to being a "competition" in the portable space since they both will be used to push their companies' platforms, and neither supports the services of the other.
Even if this, by a string of miracles, sells a 100 million units (it won't even sell a single million btw), Microsoft would hardly make any money from it because they're paying Asus a cut, and everyone will use it to play on Steam. For giant companies, the main point of hardware is to sell you software. I genuinely don't understand the purpose of this thing. Every so called "direct" SteamDeck competitor in the PC space is actually a win for Valve. Because they're not really competitors at all, they're just tools for accessing Steam.
Switch 2 >>>>> PS6 handheld >> SteamDeck >>>>> Xbox ROG Ally.
Last edited by Kyuu - on 27 September 2025
