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 )

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• EightBitBlood@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Slapping the Xbox name onto the ass-end of an overpriced and confusingly named steam deck clone is definitley the funniest way to kill the Xbox brand.

  I mean Nokia had the NGage which was designed to look like goat-c, so the bar IS high.

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  • EvilBit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Actually I think this is the only way to save Xbox, at least as a very first baby step. I’d bet you dollars to donuts that in ten years, there will be no functional distinction between Xbox and Windows gaming, and Xbox games will be running on PCs.

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    • EightBitBlood@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      So in ten years Xbox won’t exist as a brand at all? I agree. No need to take the bet.

      I think what you’re describing is exactly what Microsoft is doing. Except I think it’s incredibly short sighted from a business, consumer, and brand perspective.

      IMO, It’s basically the brand equivalent of seppuku.

      With no functional distinction between Xbox and Windows, you just get the entirety of the Xbox ecosystem silently competing with all of Steam. But even worse: it’s now just the word Xbox on Windows. And everyone really hates Windows at the moment. It’s bleeding OS marketshare to Linux like nothing I’ve ever seen.

      So they want to put the entirety of Xbox recognition on a Platform (PC) that their console users won’t be familiar with, and the OS they’re integrating it with is actively losing users. Mostly to Linux. Which Steam has an entire OS built on top of that anyone can use for their games for free.

      So the consumer choice for PC users will be between:

      • Steam OS based on Linux for free. Runs all steam games and has a desktop mode for all other apps.

      • Windows 11 for $hundreds, smaller pool of games + worse performance.

      I don’t think people are going to choose option 2 just because the word Xbox is in it somehow. Some might, but this is just HBO becoming MAX all over again, but without the escape plan of returning to HBO.

      Destroying a console AND brand just to compete with Steam with an inferior product is incredibly dumb, and incredibly Microsoft.

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    • defuse959@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They’ve already stated that intent last November. Everything is an Xbox

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• Chainweasel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  “how much it will cost depends entirely on the whims of our president and his unpredictable tariffs”

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• theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Oh its just another steam deck clone lol

  Would I be able to play my entire existing steam library on this or…?

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  • frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Clone of a clone of a steam deck that already wasn’t selling well.

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    • sheogorath@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      In places where Steam Deck isn’t selling officially, the ROG Ally has been selling like hotcakes.

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    • oxysis@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      It’s almost like people trust Valve and don’t trust ASUS

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  • ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yes, but since it’ll run Windows, it’ll have half the battery life and half the frames at the same time!

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    • steal_your_face@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Supposedly its a slimmed down version of windows, but yeah still windows 🤮

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  • NOT_RICK@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    IIRC yes it can run steam games

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    • theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Thanks, I literally just looked this up and saw that is supposedly the case. That’s very surprising to me. At least it has that

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  • Anissem@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I want a SteamDeck 2 so bad I’ve been eyeing these clones.

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    • theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I have the original and passed on upgrading to the OLED. It really hasn’t shown much age at all, yet. I’m not really playing AAA or demanding titles on it, anyway, and it works perfectly for all of the games I do want to play on it. I figure the limiting factor will be the battery, and that seems to be just as good as it was new.

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• yesman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  At that price point, you may as well get a laptop, desktop, or just a frigging XBox (with some games).

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• Deathgl0be@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Excuse my observation but this is just a Rog Ally with Xbox sticker on it no? Besides that are we just using Xbox label to call things Xbox now ? I guess I don’t get the originality of this

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  • million@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It’s a little confusing because of things shifting around but my understanding is that this the launch of Microsoft’s debloated and handheld gaming targeted version of Windows. Basically they saw what a better experience SteamOS was and realized it was a problem.

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    • noobdoomguy8658@feddit.org ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Microsoft’s debloated

      Hehe.

      I think it’s actually the opposite, as they claimed to have optimised it for gaming with interface and QOL catered to the purpose. That’s more bloat when Microsoft does it.

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    • defuse959@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’m not a MS fanboy (incredibly far from it) but your comment sparked a vision in my head of an immutable variant of LTSC/iot that function liked a Debian or arch base with vendors building x window (ha! it’s already there) interfaces too that were hardware or platform specific (e.g. here’s your Ubisoft skin, here’s your Epic Skin, etc…).

      If only we lived in a tech utopia instead of… whatever the fuck the mba’s have spent the last few decades shitting out.

      I hate having thoughts of utopia in an orphan crushing world.

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