My assumption is that AMD,Microsoft and Asus got a partnership to deploy the Z1 chips with their handheld , the Ally come with to many perks for that price is in all regards better than the deck the only thing missing would be Steam OS compatibility and that is going to be a given mere weeks after the device is released
Whatever the reasons may be for its head to head pricing with the Deck, I'm interested and am actually looking forward to purchasing it from a big block store vs ordering a Deck on Steam's website. If Steam decides to sell the Deck in retail stores too, that would make the competition even more exciting.
If they are hall effect sticks they better be good implementations. I had the displeasure of having the hall effect gimbals on my rc transmitter go out of calibration because it wasn't made to account for changes in temperature.
Z1 for 600 and Z1X for 700? That doesn't seem right; why buy the Z1 tier then?
Im really wondering the same, 499 would have be a better deal, but just 100 bucks maybe they want more people buying the one with Z1 extreme?
and then you remember how much people complained about the trackpads before the deck came out...
and then you remember how much people complained about the trackpads before the deck came out...
The steam deck has a touchscreen as well. Thing is the touch screen on the steam deck fucking sucks and using the touch screen while your hand is gripping the device is really uncomfortable. I would fully expect the touchscreen experience on these other devices to be uncomfortable as well which is probably why the deck has those trackpads. I don't understand why other companies don't just steal the decks trackpad idea. It works and I would argue they are the ideal way to navigate desktop UI's especially for windows which is horrible to navigate with a touchscreen. The only company I know of who even attempts a similar thing is GPD and their tiny square optic trackpad thing.
I think they will support it because what Valve want is more people using Steam, Canadian man stated some days that the Ally is definitely good on specs but Window 11 ruin the experience because is not optimized for it, he also stated that it would be a matter of people just porting Steam OS to the Ally, thing that WILL happen thanks to the open source nature of it
steamos is open source, if valve doesn't do it nothing is preventing asus from doing it. the hardware itself isn't that exotic either so I'd assume the most they'd have to do is do proper defaults etc.
more features = higher costs = higher price. in the end not everyone needs the trackpads depending on the games they play, so it's good to have options (in theory, if the price is the same it doesn't really matter).
The trackpad was actually a lifesaver. I spent an hour or two and was ready to give up on Morrowind on deck, the game was just not made with a controller in mind and needs a lot of precise clicks in the menus. Doing that with an analog stick is hell. Then I realised I can use the trackpads and messed around with the configuration, set the right one to be a mouse and one of the back buttons to function as a left click. It works surprisingly well.and then you remember how much people complained about the trackpads before the deck came out...
scandals?
isn't that just suspend to ram/disk? unless the steam deck does anything fancy that should be possible in software (although not sure if it requires some bios support, vaguely remember some ACPI crap but it's been years) even on the ally.
Not fully sure how it's done, just know it's the same as it is on least say the switch or pretty much any console. No idea if the ROG Ally could be patched to do it, or if it's something Windows it's self would need to be updated for, but for me it's a must have feature for any handheld.
