ASUS ROG Ally Handheld Console Price Leaked By BestBuy, $699.99 US For 16 GB & 512 GB Variant
BestBuy has leaked the pricing of ASUS's upcoming ROG Ally handheld gaming console which will be priced at $699.99 US.
The pricing was spotted Twitter user, @wickedkhumz, who was able to take a quick screenshot of the page (not retracted). The page shows that the ASUS ROG Ally Handheld console will come with a price of $699.99 US for the 16 GB LPDDR5 and 512 GB NVMe M.2 SSD variant which should be a very competitive price range against the Valve Steam Deck console which ranges from $399 to $649 US.
In its official announcement, ASUS has confirmed that the ROG Ally handheld gaming console will be the first to feature the newly announced AMD Ryzen Z1 series processors. The processors are launching in two flavors and we can also expect the console to feature two variants as revealed in leaked benchmarks a few days ago.
This APU is said to deliver 50% higher performance than the Steam Deck at 15W and 2x the uplift when running at its peak 35W performance mode. There's also the added advantage of FSR & RSR support which can drive performance even further.
The overall design choices of the ASUS ROG Ally handheld gaming console mirror similar designs we currently see in the handheld industry, from chunky handles to ergonomic grips, & looks very similar to Valve's Steam Deck, One-Netbook's OneXPlayer, and others. It also appears that the company researched detachable gamepads, which only a few have dabbled into using for their designs.
Engadget China also included images showing the breakdown of the handheld and the PCB board that will be used and housing the AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme chip based on the AMD Ryzen 7 7840U processor. This new processor is based on Zen 4 and RDNA 3 architectures, showing the system's true power. The ASUS ROG
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