ROG Xbox Ally X vs Nintendo Switch 2

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smroadkill15 said:

Sephiran said:

Sure they thought, they thought it would be so easy to just make a more expensive, better spec handheld and have all the core gamers just jumping through the roofs to get Xbox ROG over the ''inferior Switch 2'', what they don't realize is that core gamers are so niche and the reason why their consoles fail all the time. Better to go for the mass market, which Nintendo even during the days of Iwata realized when they like Microsoft launched a flopping console that catered to core gamers (OG Xbox and Gamecube).

I really doubt their sales expectations are very high for a $1000 handheld, especially compared to the Switch 2. 

The hardware is actually irrelevant for Microsoft.

The entire POINT of the Asus Rog Xbox Ally X is for Microsoft to have a launch-pad for a handheld optimized operating system to stem-the-tide of SteamOS encroaching on Windows as a viable gaming platform... Which is why this will be enabled for all PC handhelds in the future.

It's war of operating systems for Microsoft, Microsoft's bread and butter... They already lost to Android, they don't want history repeating itself.