I think the solder was still partially at fault as it would literally melt under the load causing stuff to shift. People would try to re-melt the adde in their ovens (no really) which often don’t work.
I want Xbox to succeed, but being borderline toxic Lou positive about a game with p*** poor numbers isn’t helping.
There are plenty of underperforming games I’ve enjoyed like Forza Motorsport and Modern Warfare 3. But they still underperformed and can’t be counted as a success.
Heck if MS can’t even make Doom work anymore there’s a huge problem.
Can someone explain to me why this is better than the series S when the performance is lower than the Xbox One? And that’s only if you use frame generation so the claim of 4k 60fps isn’t even really accurate.
Thank you for being honest that reviews aren’t all sunshine and rainbows for MS.
2 huge tech-YouTubers (LinusTechTips & Austin Evans) both came to the conlclusion that the base Ally has a slightly better frame rate and much worse battery and display than the Steam Deck while being more expensive than the OLED model Steam Deck.
They also both agreed that the Ally X had comparable to worse performance than the Legion Go & the MClaw whilst being more expensive than the Legion Go.
Finally they both agreed that the Ally had the worst UI by far and MS lied about streamlining Windows for it.
The Ally X has potential to be a highly competent middle performance option for a mid tier price, whilst the base model is using an exact clone of the Steam Deck processor from 4 years ago for double the price.
It’s still very concerning that the company supposedly dedicated to making first party devices abandoned their own device in favor of slapping the Xbox logo on one button on someone else’s device.
It’s this sentiment alone that causes at least a few people to be dubious.
Even if they actually double the amount of games added to the service. You’d literally have to play double the games for it to be worth double the price. That’s why so many people are cancelling.
And the games are so…shall we say sub-optimal that they have to advertise being able to play PS games on the ROG.
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Re: Avowed Is Getting Its 'Biggest Update Yet' To Mark The Xbox Title's One-Year Anniversary
Removed
Re: Xbox Owners Show Off Their Black Friday & Cyber Monday 2025 Purchases
A Black Friday deal of all items being sold for 133%!
Jk welcome to the team green!
Re: Black Ops 7 Gets Its First Xbox Discount Two Weeks After Launch, But You'll Have To Be Quick
This is why competition is good. BO6 was great but only went on sale this month.
BO7 is losing to Arc Raiders and not MS has to actually put in effort.
Re: Call Of Duty May Be Heading To Nintendo As Xbox Dev Seeks Talent With 'Switch Experience'
As impressive as it would be to take a game already 2/3 finished and have it ready next year. Yeah 27-28 sounds more reasonable.
I hope it sells well.
Re: Rumour: Two Xbox First-Party Titles Get Leaked 2026 Release Windows
Nate is a well known faker. And guessing a 6 moth release window does not mean you have insider information.
Re: Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition On Switch 2 Is 'Cut Back' Even From The Xbox 360 Version
Aspyr is a red flag to be avoided at all costs.
Re: Six New Improvements Revealed For ROG Xbox Ally, With Lots More To Come In 2026
To the people who paid $1000 to beta test this non-Xbox we salute you!
Re: It's Official! The Xbox 360 Is 20 Years Old Today
@Xboxian360
I think the solder was still partially at fault as it would literally melt under the load causing stuff to shift. People would try to re-melt the adde in their ovens (no really) which often don’t work.
Re: It's Official! The Xbox 360 Is 20 Years Old Today
Crazy that all it took to red ring these was the garbage eco solder due to performative environmentalism.
I don’t know a single person who had a PS3 everyone had a 360 and most also had a Wii Black Ops 1/2 was Halo for younger millennials.
Re: Poll: How Important Is The Xbox Play Anywhere Program To You?
Console only for me.
Re: This Xbox Game Studios Adventure Deserved More Nominations At The Game Awards 2025
@mac_da_man
Did game make money? If yes success, if no then failure.
Re: This Xbox Game Studios Adventure Deserved More Nominations At The Game Awards 2025
@Megabeenz
It’s underperforming.
Re: This Xbox Game Studios Adventure Deserved More Nominations At The Game Awards 2025
@Chip-Douglas
I want Xbox to succeed, but being borderline toxic Lou positive about a game with p*** poor numbers isn’t helping.
There are plenty of underperforming games I’ve enjoyed like Forza Motorsport and Modern Warfare 3. But they still underperformed and can’t be counted as a success.
Heck if MS can’t even make Doom work anymore there’s a huge problem.
Re: This Xbox Game Studios Adventure Deserved More Nominations At The Game Awards 2025
@mac_da_man
Oh I forgot a sequel to a massively popular game selling barely better than half as well is a success.
Re: This Xbox Game Studios Adventure Deserved More Nominations At The Game Awards 2025
@JD83
It doesn’t matter why it got bad reviews and no players. Also being on PS5 didn’t save Ghost of Yōtei.
Re: Expedition 33 Wins GOTY As Xbox Takes Home Two Awards At The Golden Joysticks 2025
If I had a nickel for every game in 2025 set in France that couldn’t get the environment right…I’d have an Phineas and Ferb reference.
Re: Vampire Crawlers Is A Survivors Spin-Off, And It's Set For Xbox Game Pass In 2026
Oh no my free time will be consumed by vampires again!
Re: Rumour: Steam Machine To Be 'Priced Like A PC' Rather Than Traditional Xbox Or PS Console
Can someone explain to me why this is better than the series S when the performance is lower than the Xbox One? And that’s only if you use frame generation so the claim of 4k 60fps isn’t even really accurate.
Re: This Xbox Game Studios Adventure Deserved More Nominations At The Game Awards 2025
@Cvantez
No. We know the player counts for similar games like veilguard and AC: Shadows. SoM did far far worse and both of those games killed their companies
Re: This Xbox Game Studios Adventure Deserved More Nominations At The Game Awards 2025
@FatGuyInLilCoat
It’s an estimate based on its poor player count and budget. And it’s generous.
Re: This Xbox Game Studios Adventure Deserved More Nominations At The Game Awards 2025
@Chip-Douglas
It lost 9 figures.
Re: This Xbox Game Studios Adventure Deserved More Nominations At The Game Awards 2025
Does that fact that the players rejected it wholeheartedly really not even make you pause for a moment and reconsider?
Re: Xbox Fan Gets Physical Refund From Bethesda Over Cancelled Redfall DLC
@Tainted
It lost over $100 million and nobody is playing it after 2 years. It flopped hard, harder than MS thought even possible.
Re: Review: Black Ops 7 (Xbox) - Zombies Mode The Shining Light In This Undercooked Call Of Duty
The fact they immediately lied about not adding ridiculous skins mean pass for me. Why does a gun need a toy train or psychic knives?
Re: Sarah Bond Insists Hardware Is 'Absolutely Core' To Xbox, Teases Powerful Next-Gen Console
Then don’t make a pc
Re: Hands On: Black Ops 7 Is Amazing On The ROG Xbox Ally X, As Long As You're Not Offline
I can’t think of a better paring than the Asus Ally and BO7. 🙃
Re: Xbox Dev Obsidian Says It Hasn't Used Generative AI 'At All' So Far
Maybe it could have made the games good?
Re: Talking Point: What Does The 'Steam Machine' Mean For Xbox's Next-Gen Console Plans?
If MS was really about to put out a $1200 machine they had better reconsider.
Re: Poll: Now That The Dust Has Settled, Which Xbox Game Pass Tier Are You Subscribed To?
Cancelled. Too many flops in a row
Re: ROG Xbox Ally X Continues To Prove Popular As Stock Issues Persist In Some Countries
MS should be transparent and tell us how its selling.
Re: Seven Xbox Games Are Shutting Down Their Servers In November & December 2025
I actually liked Chomp Champ. Might have been the first game to sell copies in single digits.
Re: Five Games Are Leaving Xbox Game Pass In Early November 2025
They…they’re removing one of 7 remaining exclusives…
Why would anyone buy an Xbox? No really?
Re: PSA: The Next Few Months Could Be Very Busy With Xbox-Related Showcases
Consume product and get excited for new product.
Re: Is Xbox Down? Huge Azure Server Outage Causes Issues Across Microsoft Services
It’s ok guys Microsoft is taking steps to prevent this from happening again.
They fired another 7k people and replaced them with A.I.!
Re: Microsoft CEO Says Xbox 'Wants To Innovate' With Its Next-Gen Console
It’ll be weird not seeing Xbox products on store shelves.
We haven’t had a 2-man race in the console wars since the Atari and Intellivision days
Re: Huge Xbox Report Details 'Ambitious' Next-Gen Console With Free Online Play
“it will feel like a traditional Xbox console“
So not a console.
Re: Xbox Boss Says Forza Motorsport Isn't Dead Despite 'Scaling Back' At Turn 10 Studios
Of course just like the Asus is an Xbox, just like Xbo isn’t going 3rd party and just like Halo is sacred.
Re: Microsoft Passes The Buck To Asus For ROG Xbox Ally's Price Tag
It’s an Xbox…it just:
Isn’t made by Microsoft
Isn’t priced by Microsoft
Isn’t serviced by Microsoft
Is sending customers to ASUS
Is in no way a Microsoft product
Re: Poll: Are You More Interested In The ROG Xbox Ally Now That Reviews Are Out?
Thank you for being honest that reviews aren’t all sunshine and rainbows for MS.
2 huge tech-YouTubers (LinusTechTips & Austin Evans) both came to the conlclusion that the base Ally has a slightly better frame rate and much worse battery and display than the Steam Deck while being more expensive than the OLED model Steam Deck.
They also both agreed that the Ally X had comparable to worse performance than the Legion Go & the MClaw whilst being more expensive than the Legion Go.
Finally they both agreed that the Ally had the worst UI by far and MS lied about streamlining Windows for it.
The Ally X has potential to be a highly competent middle performance option for a mid tier price, whilst the base model is using an exact clone of the Steam Deck processor from 4 years ago for double the price.
Re: Xbox Says It 'Defines Success' By How Much Time Players Spend On The Platform
Makes all the consecutive 9-digit losses seem not as bad.
Re: Sarah Bond Shows Off Where Microsoft Is 'Prototyping For The Next Generation Of Xbox'
Utter incompetence.
Re: Review: ROG Xbox Ally X - An Amazing Handheld PC With Plenty Of Console-Like Potential
The lowest performing Xbox with the highest price tag?
None of the convenience of a handheld with none of the benefit of a dedicated PC?
Not to be hyperbolic but for a grand they couldn’t do better than heavily compromised middle ground?
Re: ROG Xbox Ally X Spotted At Best Buy, TIME Calls It One Of The 'Best Inventions Of 2025'
After MS sells thousands of units people will change their tune.
Re: Xbox Journalist Disputes Rumour About AMD Requiring 10M Units For First-Party Handheld
It’s still very concerning that the company supposedly dedicated to making first party devices abandoned their own device in favor of slapping the Xbox logo on one button on someone else’s device.
It’s this sentiment alone that causes at least a few people to be dubious.
Re: ROG Xbox Ally X Continues To Sell Out, While Standard Version Remains More Readily Available
@Banjo-
Huh I didn’t expect us to be the casuals.
Re: ROG Xbox Ally X Continues To Sell Out, While Standard Version Remains More Readily Available
It’s still crazy that on a site where only the most dedicated Xbox fans congregate, 59% have no interest in this.
Re: New Silent Hill F Xbox Advertisement Makes It Clear You're Only Buying A 'License'
I own nothing, but I’m not happy. Any advice?
Re: Microsoft Set To Announce 'Free' Xbox Cloud Gaming Tier With Ads
Never using cloud. Worst performance and now with ads.
Re: Xbox Game Pass Ultimate Will Now Get 75+ Day One Titles Per Year, A '50% Increase' On Before
Even if they actually double the amount of games added to the service. You’d literally have to play double the games for it to be worth double the price. That’s why so many people are cancelling.
And the games are so…shall we say sub-optimal that they have to advertise being able to play PS games on the ROG.
Re: ROG Xbox Ally X Owner Shares Their 'Quick Review' After Receiving It Two Weeks Early
@Tyrant_T103
The article?