Way not worth it for me. Justifiable price for it’s performance? Maybe. That doesn’t actually matter to me. I bought a steam deck years ago. I bought a switch 2. Power is not my big concern with these systems. I have a proper PC for that. I want a reasonable portable system that can play the kinds of games I’d like to play while waiting somewhere. While laying in bed. While sitting outside because it’s a nice day. I don’t need insane hardware for that. The games that need that I’d play on my computer.
At the same time a Microsoft product these days screams garbage anyway. Even if it’s not actually made by them. If it’s got their branding, there’s certain expectations that go along with it. Especially for what’s basically just a computer.
The Steam Deck was pushed specifically by an online storefront as a “first party console” for the purposes of being, if not a loss leader, something approximating it.
ASUS is not Microsoft. They were going to release a handheld format gaming laptop regardless. They just took some cash from MS to change the plastic on one of their buttons. Once they sell this, that is it for profits (aside from all the spyware ASUS bundles in). The GPDs and Aya Neos had the same problem. And these are significantly more powerful than a Steam Deck at this point.
I would need to dig through the marketing and cross reference AMD’s latest naming nonsense. But 1k for a gaming laptop is a shockingly good deal and the MSI Claw A8 has the same processor and, as of the Toms Guide article I found, was priced at £849.
Personally? I don’t think there is much point in getting something ridiculously powerful as a gameboy and find the Steam Deck to be a great sweet spot where I can play the games I want to play natively but also stream (locally or from a cloud service) if I REALLY need to play something Bigger on there. But I also never really saw a point to gaming laptops for similar reasons.
But the people who do want a gaming laptop? This is what you are looking at.
I hate that all these handhelds are only trying to differentiate by focusing on premium specs but ignoring the sweet price-performance ratio that made the SD a success.
Give me something that has the same specs as the SD, or slightly weaker but still able to play last gen and indies in a smaller form factor instead. I’d snap up a SD mini clamshell in a heartbeat
I feel like I’m the only one who finds this pricing reasonable? I looked up similar devices from Ayaneo and GPD and they’re priced similarly. It’s a premium ultrabook shrunk to a handheld size with a built in controller built by a company that can’t offset costs from an online store like Steam can, what were people expecting?
It’s just Xbox branded, though. ASUS controls the device and I don’t think it likely that Microsoft is hedging the future of Xbox on a (likely) one-time business arrangement. This was just the compromise for Microsoft’s failed in-house handheld that never saw the light of day.
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Way not worth it for me. Justifiable price for it’s performance? Maybe. That doesn’t actually matter to me. I bought a steam deck years ago. I bought a switch 2. Power is not my big concern with these systems. I have a proper PC for that. I want a reasonable portable system that can play the kinds of games I’d like to play while waiting somewhere. While laying in bed. While sitting outside because it’s a nice day. I don’t need insane hardware for that. The games that need that I’d play on my computer.
At the same time a Microsoft product these days screams garbage anyway. Even if it’s not actually made by them. If it’s got their branding, there’s certain expectations that go along with it. Especially for what’s basically just a computer.
Wow that’s expensive!!
(laughs in Steam Deck)
The Steam Deck was pushed specifically by an online storefront as a “first party console” for the purposes of being, if not a loss leader, something approximating it.
ASUS is not Microsoft. They were going to release a handheld format gaming laptop regardless. They just took some cash from MS to change the plastic on one of their buttons. Once they sell this, that is it for profits (aside from all the spyware ASUS bundles in). The GPDs and Aya Neos had the same problem. And these are significantly more powerful than a Steam Deck at this point.
I would need to dig through the marketing and cross reference AMD’s latest naming nonsense. But 1k for a gaming laptop is a shockingly good deal and the MSI Claw A8 has the same processor and, as of the Toms Guide article I found, was priced at £849.
Personally? I don’t think there is much point in getting something ridiculously powerful as a gameboy and find the Steam Deck to be a great sweet spot where I can play the games I want to play natively but also stream (locally or from a cloud service) if I REALLY need to play something Bigger on there. But I also never really saw a point to gaming laptops for similar reasons.
But the people who do want a gaming laptop? This is what you are looking at.
Raise the federal wage and then I’ll think about buying something at a ridiculous price.
Too much. Honestly.
I hope people vote with their wallets.
Big lol
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I hate that all these handhelds are only trying to differentiate by focusing on premium specs but ignoring the sweet price-performance ratio that made the SD a success.
Give me something that has the same specs as the SD, or slightly weaker but still able to play last gen and indies in a smaller form factor instead. I’d snap up a SD mini clamshell in a heartbeat
You know it’s going to be a great and memorable platform to play games on when it’s catchy & cool name is 3/4 corpo IP 1/4 name.
What is that price tag 😂 Someone drop the Donte white wig meme please.
I feel like I’m the only one who finds this pricing reasonable? I looked up similar devices from Ayaneo and GPD and they’re priced similarly. It’s a premium ultrabook shrunk to a handheld size with a built in controller built by a company that can’t offset costs from an online store like Steam can, what were people expecting?
For M$ to subsidize some of the cost of the hardware seeing how it’s their “next leap” for the Xbox? Or something along those lines.
It’s just Xbox branded, though. ASUS controls the device and I don’t think it likely that Microsoft is hedging the future of Xbox on a (likely) one-time business arrangement. This was just the compromise for Microsoft’s failed in-house handheld that never saw the light of day.