Asus has introduced last particulars for the Asus ROG Ally, its Steam-Deck-style handheld gaming PC, confirming the machine will launch on thirteenth June priced at £699/$699 USD.
We first caught a glimpse of the ROG Ally on 1st April this 12 months, however Asus was fast to substantiate the machine was not, in truth, a weirdly elaborate April Idiot’s Day prank, however relatively an precise actual factor it was planning to launch.
A couple of weeks later, Asus was prepared to speak specs, confirming the ROG Ally would come with an AMD Ryzen Z1 Excessive processor, a seven-inch 1080p 120Hz contact display screen, a UHS-2 Micro SD card slot, plus Home windows 11 assist, and three months of Xbox Sport Move Final. It additionally promised “as much as” 16GB of LPDDR5 RAM in dual-channel mode and storage of “as much as” 512GB PCIe 4.0 SSD, though it provided little phrase on different deliberate configurations.
“Total, the ROG Ally is shaping as much as be an thrilling launch and we’re trying ahead to getting our fingers on one to check out its efficiency,” Digital Foundry’s Will Judd wrote on the time. “If Asus is ready to ship the machine at an analogous value to the Steam Deck, or provide a premium mannequin that’s considerably higher, it may have a winner on its fingers.”
And now, just some weeks later, these questions round pricing have been answered. The Asus ROG Ally will initially ship with the configuration detailed above – a specification Digital Foundry described as “spectacular” – for £699 within the UK and $699 within the US. That makes it roughly £130/$50 costlier than Steam Deck’s top-end 512GB NVMe SSD mannequin and £350/$300 greater than its bottom-end 64GB eMMC unit.
This preliminary ROG Ally configuration launches on thirteenth June, however Asus has confirmed (thanks RPS) it will even be releasing a decrease spec unit, that includes a non-Excessive Ryzen Z1 processor and 512GB SSD, someday in “Q3” this 12 months, priced at $599.
How all this may stack up in opposition to the Steam Deck in a real-world setting stays to be seen, however hopefully Digital Foundry has extra to say forward of Asus ROG Ally’s launch on thirteenth June.
