Comment on Microsoft Still Can't Say How Much the ROG Xbox Ally X Will Cost Due to "Macro-Economic" Conditions, Despite Announcing Release Date and Availability Details(Leaked prices $549.99/$899 for Ally/Ally )

• Melonpoly@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That doesn’t make it any better

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  • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That doesn’t make it any better

    Whether or not it’s better wasn’t the question. The claim was that Microsoft was launching the product and being in charge of defining the price. They aren’t because it’s an Asus product with Xbox branding, just like www.8bitdo.com/ultimate-3-mode-controller-xbox/ is a regular 8bitdo controller with Xbox branding and not a Microsoft product.

    That’s all.

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    • Melonpoly@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That wasn’t the claim from the comment you replied to. It was about Microsoft botching a launch and making the product worse over time which Asus is just as guilty of doing.

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      • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It was about Microsoft botching a launch

        And Microsoft isn’t launching the product because it’s not a Microsoft product.

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• MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s almost worse, Asus also makes a lot of garbage.

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  • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s almost worse, Asus also makes a lot of garbage.

    That’s not the point. The point is asking Microsoft about the price of a branded 3rd party product.

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• HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Asus … Well that’s half the problem right there. The other half being Microsoft

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• onslaught545@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s both. It was co-developed by the companies.

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  • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s both. It was co-developed by the companies.

    No, the actual hardware wasn’t. That’s the point of the entire exercise to not develop the product in-house. Microsoft only develops Windows game mode.

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• supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Well I hope Microsoft has next to no input on it, for all our sakes not just the people at Asus.

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  • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Well I hope Microsoft has next to no input on it then

    Microsoft develops Windows game mode, so the user-facing bit of the system and of course such a major sponsor surely has general “don’t do anything that hurts our brand” clauses in the contract with Asus but other than that there has been not a single piece of evidence that the handheld will be anything but a more high-profile version of www.8bitdo.com/ultimate-3-mode-controller-xbox/ which is also just branded 3rd party hardware. IMO there is a decent chance the identical hardware will also launch as a SteamOS version with the buttons then carrying Steam branding.

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