Asus ROG Ally review: an imperfect Steam Deck rival | PCGamesN

Pros

• Phenomenal portable performance
• Comfortable to hold
• Full PC compatibility

Cons

• Windows 11 quirks
• Relatively pricey

Seems like the general consensus is the Hardware is great but the OS is shit. Typical of the Windows team to be the let-down

If you can suffer through Windows, it seems like it is a great handheld device for the videogames.

These dudes can't even fix the Windows Store so I'm not expecting much.

Windows Team is once again kneecapping Xbox's Gaming ambitions.

Asus ROG Ally vs. Steam Deck: which to buy - Polygon

You should buy the Asus ROG Ally if: you want the absolute best — on paper

You should buy the Asus ROG Ally if: you have a huge collection of PC games outside of Steam

You should buy the Asus ROG Ally if: you want something a little more portable, or you just like the gamercore aesthetic

You should buy the Asus ROG Ally if: you want the entirety of tinkering freedom that comes with Windows

You should buy the Steam Deck if: you want a console-like experience

You should buy the Steam Deck if: you immediately want a helpful community

You should buy the Steam Deck if: comfortable ergonomics are a premium

You should buy the Steam Deck if: price matters

Valve looking mighty smart right now to have made a proper mobile UI/UX over SteamOS lol

I will give my deck to my boy and buy this baby for myself (Ally) I absolutly want the best :)

@bold, I think this path is close, the EU has found similar concerns over the same market de facto giving CMA credence to also define this as its own market.

I think MS's argument will be more in line with:

• The evaluation the CMA did of the current significance of the size of Xcloud is irrational.
• The evaluation of the CMA having defined Xcloud as a major selling point of GPU is irrational. 
• The CMA did not sufficiently acquire information in regard to Xcloud usage which they could easily have requested and obtained therefore amounting to a breach of procedure.
• Given the fact that CMA could have easily obtained more precise information from MS, using a speculative one is irrational.
• The CMA did not give proper feedback to MS on their remedies proposal.
• The CMA did not properly convey the seriousness of the Cloud SLC after dropping the Console SLC.
• The CMA mention that remedies that would be hard to track is irrational.
• The CMA mentions that MS could substantially raise the game pass subscription fee negating consumer benefits is irrational given our goal.
• The CMA did not properly define the possibility of a rise in GamePass fee as a concern prior to their final conclusion amounting to a breach of procedure.
• The CMA only weighs in the benefits of Game Pass vs the cons of the Cloud SLC is irrational as they should have also included the benefits to the much bigger console markets along with the subscription service one.
• Giving the CMA found benefits to much bigger and more impactful markets (Consoles), refusing to consider behavioral remedies for a substantially lesser market goes against their own mandate for consumers of the UK and so is irrational.
• etc...

They'll make as many such arguments as possible and every win will grant them specifics instruction from the CAT to the CMA. making it quite difficult for them to reach the same conclusion.

Also, I'm yet to find any independent expert claiming the CMA decision is sane or logical which should make it easier to portray irrationality in this case.

Well yeah, it's a bit of a grey zone I think, like I said the CMA may argue the market is still impacted, but that doesn't mean they will or that this argument would not be greatly diminished as a result. MS can try and maybe they will succeed there, but I think that in this scenario the CMA will impose sanctions and fines on MS, and the burden to prove this remedy sufficiently addresses the CMA conclusion would be on MS's shoulders again. Also, MS would run the risk of being forced to divest Activision as a result which would shut down the possibility of simply leaving the cloud market worldwide to close the deals.

Leaving the UK for their console business as a whole is overkill and also would not address CMA cloud SLC anymore than carving out Xcloud out of the UK so it's a no-go.

Compared to this, and as highlighted in another post of mine, simply leaving the cloud market worldwide would definitely solve CMA concerns and they'd be 100% free to close the deals. Then they could re-enter the market in 4-5 years saying CMA then concerns don't apply anymore. I think it's only in this scenario that the uphill battle will be on CMA's side would they still want to fight MS.

Wow, warranted an Xbox Wire post

I use windows on my steam deck so the OS doesn't bother me. Price to spec wise this destroys the two higher tier steam decks. Hard to justify paying $649 for a 512gb Steam Deck when you can get far more power for $50 more.

It would not be the same team. All developer teams are not made equal.  Hell in the company I work for there is probably more than 100 different development teams and we are no where near the size of MS who probably have 1000 development teams.  The OS part is definitely probably multiple different teams and I am sure MS can pump out a UI which would be useful in a mobile handheld device if they actually put development effort into it.  Basically all they need to do is a Xbox skin on top of Windows.  A fix hardware device like this really do not need full blown windows controls.  The thing is, outside of that demo a developer form MS did for a mobile handheld UI, I doubt the company has actually committed anything to the design so far.  Maybe Asus should have come to MS with that proposal before shipping this product.