After about a year of owning the Steam Deck I bought an ROG Ally more so to see what I was missing than anything and ended up returning it in about a week.
To me it just didn’t offer enough over what the Steam Deck does to justify spending $600 on it. Not to mention, Windows is terrible on handheld PCs, it really puts SteamOS into perspective on just how good it is.
Oh and the joysticks on the Ally are pretty bad, the right joystick specifically was placed in an “Xbox layout” to where it’s lower than the left but for anyone with medium sized or bigger hands it puts it in a really bad spot where either you’re using the midpoint of your thumb to move it or you have to really bend your thumb instead so either you are very inaccurate or it’s very uncomfortable.
After about a year of owning the Steam Deck I bought an ROG Ally more so to see what I was missing than anything and ended up returning it in about a week.
To me it just didn’t offer enough over what the Steam Deck does to justify spending $600 on it. Not to mention, Windows is terrible on handheld PCs, it really puts SteamOS into perspective on just how good it is.
Oh and the joysticks on the Ally are pretty bad, the right joystick specifically was placed in an “Xbox layout” to where it’s lower than the left but for anyone with medium sized or bigger hands it puts it in a really bad spot where either you’re using the midpoint of your thumb to move it or you have to really bend your thumb instead so either you are very inaccurate or it’s very uncomfortable.