Amazon France has made a bit of a boo-boo and shipped out Asus ROG Xbox Ally X units over two weeks before their intended street date. Users have posted initial impressions on Reddit.
It appears that Amazon France has broken the street date and shipped out Xbox Ally X units to customers in the region. Multiple posts have shown up on Reddit with users who have the upcoming handheld after they were delivered early to their homes.
Reddit user TechnicalFun77 posted the following to the ROGAlly subreddit:
Quick Review : For most games there is not a huge difference in fps, you can count on average 5 to 10 fps maximum difference with the z1 extreme, on the other hand the console is quite efficient in 17w compared to before you can count 3 hours and + on big games. For the highest TDP the difference there is not such a big difference from 25w to 35w…
He finishes with
In summary, for the few hours I was able to test it, it’s a good console, Very good ergonomics, controlled weight, pretty nice handheld, armory crate in the full screen experience is very responsive, no latency problem when pressing buttons, quite fluid in the menus in general, and superb battery life at 17-25w and and my god the console is quiet and well cooled even at high TDP, one of the main strength is the sound of the device it feel like the sounds are going all around my head, I almost don’t need headphones.
I’ll try to do some small benchmarks when I have the machine for a little more time, in any case tell yourself that you can play almost all games in 900p/1080p medium/high at minimum 35-40fps at 25w TDP, if you add lossless scaling or frame generation with a little FSR in quality you can reach 80 fps almost constantly
Finally I would say it’s a finished version of the Ally X. but with certain points to review over time like the power of the z2 extreme, the optimization and the opening of the full screen experience to more games and a bigger screen for the next Asus consoles.
Have you gotten an ASUS ROG Xbox Ally handheld early, or do you have one on preorder? Let us know in the comments section below.
I have a pre-order at Bestbuy, and will pick it up on the 16th. Right now I can game through XBOX Game Pass Cloud gaming but the game control is laggy on my tablet. Hoping this device is much better.
The thing is way too overpriced for what the specs are. Hard pass, so I’ll continue to stick with my Steam Deck OLED.