New Xbox handheld announced

[Fatboi1]

Sony stans hating on this while they paid $200 for a remote play device.

Where are Sony stans hating on this? In this thread? Literally no one has said anything bad about this in this thread. I'm confused breh lol. nikka said people hating on this when literally no one said anything.

 

[Ezekiel 25:17]

That's a handheld gaming issue in general, since the true evolution of it to stream your gaming.

No it's not. You can play offline with the Steam Deck. You can also play offline with the Switch. Nintendo handheld consoles didn't need to stream.

If anything happens to turn off your ps5 while you're away your portal is a paper weight.

The portal looks like a well built device and including the haptic feedback is clutch, but I wouldn't spend the money on it knowing I was going to be in hotels, long flights, or on the road.

 

[Hood Critic]

No it's not. You can play offline with the Steam Deck. You can also play offline with the Switch. Nintendo handheld consoles didn't need to stream.

If anything happens to turn off your ps5 while you're away your portal is a paper weight.

The portal looks like a well built device and including the haptic feedback is clutch, but I wouldn't spend the money on it knowing I was going to be in hotels, long flights, or on the road.

I think you clearly missed the term "evolution". I own a Steam Deck and a Switch 1, I'm familiar with them. The biggest limitations to both, are storage despite having access to expandable storage.

I also own a Portal and until I recently downgraded my Premium subscription, I was actively using the cloud streaming beta in hotels and over Mifi connections (plane wifi is a satellite connection, too much latency to do anything). The device is cheap, well built and focuses on all the components necessary for a gaming experience. Its limitation is network connectivity but again, that is a handheld/mobile gaming issue in general despite some offline functionality.

 

[Phillyrider807]

I agree. Armory Crate gets undo shyt heaped on it. Every time I see comments about "windows based handhelds" the first thing I see is muhfukkas complaining about constant updates. As if they are playing COD and in the middle of a killstreak or something they are being forced to reboot. The shyt is just completely false. I'm not arguing that the Windows handheld experience couldn't be better, but it's shortcomings are WAY overblown.

I can't wait to see what the MS team does with the new.....interface? OS? Whatever it is that optimizes things for handhelds. And that new Ally is ugly as hell but I bet it feels amazing in the hand. I'd cop it at 1000 or less. I mean most cell phones now are 800 to 1000. So something like that seems right at that price point.

It's windows. It's the same windows we all been using for over 15 years. It's just now in the form factor of a switch. Why people think windows is gonna not be windows cause it's in a handheld form factor is wild to me.

 

[Khalil's_Black_Excellence]

Sony stans hating on this while they paid $200 for a remote play device.

Are you faux clout chasing or something? What hate, fool?

 

[IsThatBrothaMouzone?]

Question for the knowledgeable folks.....

Which of these handhelds should I get:

Ally
Ally X
Xbox versions of Ally/Ally X
Steam Deck
Other

I got PS5 and Series X, PS+ and GamePass.

I'd mostly play these either at home or maybe at a hotel/Air BnB when traveling. Which one allows me to play big time AAA games with strong graphics, performance etc?

Thought about a gaming PC but not really interested in going that route.

 

[Hood Critic]

Question for the knowledgeable folks.....

Which of these handhelds should I get:

Ally
Ally X
Xbox versions of Ally/Ally X
Steam Deck
Other

I got PS5 and Series X, PS+ and GamePass.

I'd mostly play these either at home or maybe at a hotel/Air BnB when traveling. Which one allows me to play big time AAA games with strong graphics, performance etc?

Thought about a gaming PC but not really interested in going that route.

Depends on which ecosystem you lean towards.

PS Portal is the hands down most native handheld/remote play experience you're going to get for PS titles.

If you lean more towards GamePass and/or Steam, go with the more expensive Xbox branded Ally.

If money isn't a factor, cop both to cover all your bases. I got more use out of my Steam Deck playing Switch 1 games than anything in my Steam library. That purchase made me realize that handheld gaming devices that cost more than a few hundred dollars, are a pure vanity investment because you're not going to use it enough to justify the cost.

 

[Instant Classic]

Question for the knowledgeable folks.....

Which of these handhelds should I get:

Ally
Ally X
Xbox versions of Ally/Ally X
Steam Deck
Other

I got PS5 and Series X, PS+ and GamePass.

I'd mostly play these either at home or maybe at a hotel/Air BnB when traveling. Which one allows me to play big time AAA games with strong graphics, performance etc?

Thought about a gaming PC but not really interested in going that route.

hmm, this is tricky to tackle

Do you plan to subscribe to gamepass? if the answer is yes, then get ally x or xbox ally

If you have no interest in gamepass, then go wtih Steam Deck or Legion GO S. The Legion Go S runs on the Steam OS, and it will give you better performance than the steam deck


1st gen ally is an ice device you can get for cheap, but the major drawback is battery life and that won't fit the use case you mentioned above.

Overall, You might be best off going with Ally X because it has improved battery life, good performance, and gives you easy access to gamepass, steam, epic game store, and other storefronts. If you don't care about flexibility between store fronts then Legion Go S might be a good bet, but price-wise most likely better off going with a steam deck.

 

[CoolinInTheCut]

Absolutely wild thats how the portal works. What a waste of money.

Literally paying to do the same shyt you can do with your phone for the last 10 years.

 

[superchoops]

Only interesting thing about this is the new windows UI. I'll mod it onto my existing Ally if it's worth it but honestly Armory crate does everything i need it to do.

All the complaints I had about my Ally has been fixed within the first year it was out. Only people i see complaining about it now are people who don't know how to use Windows. Said it before and i'll say it again. My Ally has been the best tech purchase i ever made.


Those grips are ugly as hell but they might be comfortable.

aint gon lie i bought my rog ally x with some hesitation but yeah this thing is the goat.

Even got pxplay on it so i can remote play my ps5 if i feel like it when im on vacation

 

[CoolinInTheCut]

Question for the knowledgeable folks.....

Which of these handhelds should I get:

Ally
Ally X
Xbox versions of Ally/Ally X
Steam Deck
Other

I got PS5 and Series X, PS+ and GamePass.

I'd mostly play these either at home or maybe at a hotel/Air BnB when traveling. Which one allows me to play big time AAA games with strong graphics, performance etc?

Thought about a gaming PC but not really interested in going that route.

Keep in mind the OS differences when buying a handheld PC.

You'll be able to play shyt like Warzone and other big multiplayer experiences on the ROG Ally systems or Lenovo Go systems because they're based on Windows, but only a limited selection on the Steam Deck because of the Linux based SteamOS not cooperating well with most anti-cheat software. If you only play single-player and indie games, then this doesn't matter as much.

You can get remote play, multiple launchers, emulation, and Game Pass working on all handheld PCs. So there's no point in a dedicated Remote Play device.

With all that said, its best to go with the strongest hardware, like with most tech.

 

[Instant Classic]

Keep in mind the OS differences when buying a handheld PC.

You'll be able to play shyt like Warzone and other big multiplayer experiences on the ROG Ally systems or Lenovo Go systems because they're based on Windows, but only a limited selection on the Steam Deck because of the Linux based SteamOS not cooperating well with most anti-cheat software. If you only play single-player and indie games, then this doesn't matter as much.

You can get remote play, multiple launchers, emulation, and Game Pass working on all handheld PCs. So there's no point in a dedicated Remote Play device.

With all that said, its best to go with the strongest hardware.

I always forget about this part. That's one of the major drawbacks with the deck. It's not the best for MP games

 

[CoolinInTheCut]

I always forget about this part. That's one of the major drawbacks with the deck. It's not the best for MP games

Not just the deck but anything with SteamOS now, since Valve is letting anyone make a system with it now.

It's a shame too because its easily the best OS for gaming.

 

[Hood Critic]

Literally paying to do the same shyt you can do with your phone for the last 10 years.

At nowhere near the same experience. You can sh*t on the Portal all you want but you can't tootsie slide over the fact that it's good at what it was designed to do at a fraction of the cost of any other handheld.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

At nowhere near the same experience. You can sh*t on the Portal all you want but you can't tootsie slide over the fact that it's good at what it was designed to do at a fraction of the cost of any other handheld.

The success of the portal speaks for itself (it’s probably already outsold most of the handhelds not named steamdeck) it sells because it does a really good job at letting you play your ps5 around your house (at max fidelity) and its in impulse purchase territory.

most people aren’t bringing their big ass handhelds outside their houses or hotels anyway lol