FrenchVaniIIuxe

“it will feel like a traditional Xbox console“

So not a console.

Of course just like the Asus is an Xbox, just like Xbo isn’t going 3rd party and just like Halo is sacred.

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

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.

Makes all the consecutive 9-digit losses seem not as bad.

Utter incompetence.

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?

After MS sells thousands of units people will change their tune.

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.

@Banjo-

Huh I didn’t expect us to be the casuals.

It’s still crazy that on a site where only the most dedicated Xbox fans congregate, 59% have no interest in this.

I own nothing, but I’m not happy. Any advice?

Never using cloud. Worst performance and now with ads.

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.

@Tyrant_T103

The article?

My uncle who builds boats said he give Phil Spencer a good deal on rudders.

The first thing he tried to do was pirate games?

Can’t wait to see what games come out for this…oh wait

I agree with Phil and the market won’t grow.

We all called it.

This is not an Xbox.

When you review it can you check if the rumors are that it’s censored are true?

While not the end of the world. The fact that any major retailer can’t sell the product under any circumstances is worrying.

Really makes you wonder why MS is blaming tariffs on consoles already in the country. Is it to make the next Xbox look like a better deal? Is it so that the first $1000 console is only a few hundred more expensive instead of literally double the price?

@archaicking & @Tainted

I mean both games got poor reviews, had 0 cultural impact and lost money in the 9 digits. Concord is a disaster who’ll unto itself worse than E.T. Or PAC-man for Atari, but both games still failed.

While Redfall is certainly not worth much time. Compared to the following disasters like Skull & Bones, Dragon Age, Starfield, Avowed, Dragon’s Dogma 2, &…Concord

It really wasn’t that bad.

Didn’t MS just fire 15k people or something?

So the console is 30% worse than when it launched and they just got rid of Flight Sim 24?

Is the rumor true that MS is deliberately trying to kill the Xbox brand

Doing this after Sony admitted getting rid of their exclusives was a failed strategy is good to say the least.

Hopefully the rumor is false.

Optimized 👎
Sloptimized 👍

MS is panicking trying to find a way to make it cost less than a grand.

Would have taken advantage of it if they had made a statement about the recent Bethesda garbage

How do you feel about the Battlefield devs saying the series S was the worst part of making the game?

Shoutout to anyone who hasn’t touched that list!

Keep SaaS out of the ecosystem.

It killed BioWare so can’t go above a 1.