I was wrong about the ASUS ROG Ally...

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I play mostly triple A games, I prefer the power of the Ally.

I've had an Ally for 3 months now and love it for traveling in airports and such. Went hands on with a SD but I'm in your camp, I don't use the trackpads, so those being gone is moot. The dead zones are crap but there's an 'anti deadzone' feature they added in one of the recent bios updates (in Armoury Crate) that helps a ton.

the thing that does it for me is the support for xbox gamepass natively. amd the game that pushed me to get an Ally was Remnant 2… personally i love everything build wise on the steam deck way better than the ally. dpad, buttons, trackpad… etc. if the steam deck had a bit more punch and native gamepass id get that for sure! no questions asked

For that left button you need to loosen the left screw on the shell. It tends to tighten and causes friction with the other near by button.

I’d recommend the skull & co grip case as it gives you more grip on the back of the device and has made a huge difference for me.

Dead zone has been fixed in the latest armor crate software update. There is an option under settings/configure/gamepadmode, choose the stick you want and you have 3 options to adjust dead zone, outer threshold and the NEW option Anti-Dead zone. Adjust that last option and you will not have dead zone anymore

Hey great review, I’ve been really enjoying my rog ally once firmware, bios and driver updates really made it come to form. The stock dpad is quite atrocious in my eyes as a fighting game player but luckily there are files to 3D print a custom dpad for the Ally with a ball pivot with an option for a cross style dpad and its been great for 2D games as a whole. I really recommend it if you find the stock dpad unsatisfactory.

Love my Ally, started using it as a laptop replacement hooked up to a dock with all the standard peripherals.

Right after launch there was issue with the dead zone on my unit, but testing now with latest updates, I think ROG Ally is now very close to Xbox controller. Everything is on default. Note that I'm testing with open source Quake port, I know exactly how it reads the joystick data and what kind of software dead zone it's using to filter out "noise". Other games may not play well with this joystick, but it's very clear from the Windows cursor that this is no longer an issue, at least on my device.

I've been loving my Ally. Had it about 5 months now and the updates have made it great. It plays at least 80% of my library and the remaining it can run but I have my tower if I want something to look pretty. Sure the battery life sucks and I got a 26,000mah battery bank to carry around with it but 4-8 hours of play time and an hour to charge means I'm never out of juice.

Hi Rudy, Have you try playing game with the latest "update" from Asus? I heard it fixed quite some issues with the console. Best and Thank you for the review.

The dead zone is to counter stick drift. Or more accurately cover it up when it occurs

If you play at home; streaming from a computer to either the Deck or Ally actually works pretty well and you don't hafta worry as much about battery

I honestly loved that they added the XG mobile port, if only it means that maybe more people will look at getting it in the future to ensentivise new models, extending the life of both the ally and the laptops that can use it, like the x16 flow that I use.

Just snagged one from Best Buy Black Friday sale! By far the purchase of the year!

I loved Emudeck on the Steam Deck and thought it was absolutely amazing but its just not the same on the Ally but its still in a test phase so that kind of explains why its a bit iffy and buggy. I personally think Retrobat is the way to go if using the ALLY for emulation in my opinion as it seems to work pretty much flawlessly in comparison as always opinions are subjective

I had a steam deck for 3 months and before getting the ally I thought I would miss the touchpad because I used the a lot on the steam deck (running windows) but honestly the joystick works fine enough as a mouse on the ally.

I'm a day 1 Ally owner. Still can't put it down it's November already.

Do you still think the asus rog ally has the best screen (besides switch) even with the steam deck oled?