Asus’ ROG Ally handheld gaming PC doesn’t appear like an April Fools’ joke

The display screen will present “full HD gaming,” and it guarantees a quiet dual-fan design together with the seen commonplace setup of twin analog sticks, left-mounted D-pad, and 4 face buttons, plus just a few smaller buttons across the display screen to entry menus and settings. Going past the Steam Deck dock, it even advertises the chance to “expertise Ally’s full potential” by plugging within the ROG XG Cellular eGPU the corporate gives to be used with its gaming laptops whereas streaming your video games to a TV.

The trailer options actual video games like Excessive On Life, Shifting Out, and WRC Generations — uncommon for a prank — and has a hyperlink to Finest Purchase, the place avid gamers can join details about pre-orders.

Whereas Valve’s Steam Deck has been essentially the most profitable try and make PC gaming a really transportable expertise, there are many opponents, just like the Ayaneo 2 or different Change-like machines from GPD and OneXPlayer. Nonetheless, in our expertise, they’ve relied on an AMD 6800U chipset as a substitute of a customized design and usually lack the best mixture of horsepower and effectivity that we wish to see from handheld gaming machines.

Greater than something, the machine featured within the video seems totally designed and able to roll out as a high-powered entry into the transportable gaming market. It’s definitely extra real looking than what Asus ROG (Republic of Players) posted on April Fools’ Day 2022, hawking an idea “Sensible Lens” for eye-controlled gestures that it later revealed was a joke. After all, Asus can also be the corporate that simply unleashed this ROG Move Z13 Acronym transportable that defies all perception and understanding.

We’ll have to attend and see if this Ally handheld continues to be standing after the clock rolls over to April 2nd, however Asus definitely appears able to face the Steam Deck on this class in the end.