The Asus ROG Ally is A Weird Little PC Guy
An enthusiast gaming experience disguised as a handheld console
I walked into the Best Buy six weeks ago on the ROG Ally’s launch day fully expecting it to be sold out. It had a huge and intense marketing campaign, with flashy ads all over the internet, a lengthy pre-order period, and dozens of tech influencer preview and review videos. My local store even went the extra mile with their display, dedicating an entire endcap to the unit with a pre-release edition available for users to poke at and try games on.
While I’m sure that all of this effort had some sort of sales impact — my local store had several units available on release day, so I impulse bought one. I’ve spent the last several weeks using it as my main gaming machine. I played through an entire forty-hour campaign run of Diablo IV. I checked out GPU-intensive games like Horizon: Zero Dawn and Street Fighter 6. I played a ton of Diablo II on it after Diablo IV got thrown into the river by its own development team. I checked out the latest version of Obsidian’s Grounded with a friend. And I played far too much Vampire Survivors.
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In all that gaming time, the system ran very well. You probably don’t need me to tell you that if you’ve watched even one of the…
