I wager that I spent more than half my time gaming last year with it, whether on my couch, in the airport, or at the cafe down the street. When I reviewed the Steam Deck, I called it “ my favorite video game console.” A year and change later, I’m even more certain of that belief.
The ROG Ally Z1 Extreme will be available for sale worldwide on June 13 for $699.99, and pre-orders should now be live. Making the choice depends on what you need from these expensive portable PCs.
The trouble is, both the Steam Deck and Ally are excellent handhelds. It’s a battle between the established industry leader and the sleeker, more powerful, and slightly more expensive upstart. You could pick Valve’s Steam Deck, which established this entire hardware niche last spring, or its first legitimate challenger, Asus’ ROG Ally, which is hitting stores this summer. You can build macros and chorded combinations with other keys and per-key turbo modes, and like I said, it’s dizzying - and Valve barely explains how any of it works.If you want a handheld gaming PC, there are only two legitimate options. and every one of the Deck’s 20-plus programmable controls can issue multiple different commands depending on how and when you press. You can click, swipe, flick, and “spin” a virtual trackball press down on their pressure-sensitive surfaces and even set their edges to continually move or turn your character. In addition to providing an entire traditional gamepad worth of analog joysticks, triggers, and face buttons - almost all of which feel fantastic, I might add - you also get four rear grip buttons and a pair of Steam Controller pads so customizable, calling them “trackpads” feels like a disservice. Okay, you might ask, but all the games I just named have gamepad support - what about the decades of mouse-and-keyboard fare? The Steam Deck lets you borrow or build a dizzying array of custom control schemes that make them feel at home, too.
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