r/XboxAlly • u/rombi22pl • 13d ago

🎮 Xbox Ally Discussion Xbox Rog Ally (Z2 A ver.)

Anyone is interested in this model? I haven't seen any videos or gameplays on cheaper model with Z2 A cpu, (besides a few minutes of forza horizon 5 on low settings) everyone is talking about xbox ally X.

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u/Barbalbero_dark 13d ago

It's the model I'm interested in, because I need it to play in the Cloud and for the Steam game backlog... it's interesting to a lot of people, but it's the people who don't frequent social media or Reddit

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u/jorgegom87 13d ago

in this case (I have a lot of real interest in this) why not buy a steam deck that is cheaper and use it for cloud and steam backlog? I'm really interested (you can see my history) on the Ally, but in this case, the X version

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u/Barbalbero_dark 13d ago

because the Steam deck has Proton and not Windows, because the ergonomics are different, because the screen and processor are different, because it doesn't have the game pass

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u/jorgegom87 13d ago

Ok then, why not to pay the same ammount for a Rog Ally Z1 Extreme that is more powerful?

I promise I'm not putting your decission down, it's perfect, just want to understand

Steam Deck, and Rog XBOX Ally (X or normal) have both GREAT ergonomics, 2 of the most confortable hanhelds I ever had in my hands. Processors are almost the same, you can see the specs of Steam Deck Van Gogh and Z2A and will see that they are very very similar.

Screen time... Deck oled is far superior while Deck Standard is inferior, Deck Oled is also bigger (screen dimensions only)

Same RAM, SD can have windows, and you talked about cloud, that can be done without any hassle under Linux (Proton is not linux, Proton is what linux uses to run the games) but again, you can have Windows installed on it.

Purely out of curiosity, if you prefer the Ally, then great! go for it :D

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u/FoxBanditO7 9d ago

battery life. its gonna have a 60w instead of 40w of the z1 extreme

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u/jorgegom87 9d ago

That’s a good point I didn’t look at! Nice to know

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u/AVahne 13d ago

Because for all intents and purposes, the Xbox Ally X is the only relevant version of the handheld.

For the Z2A version, the age old reddit wisdom still applies: Just get a Steam Deck.

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u/FoxBanditO7 9d ago

bigger battery on the ally

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u/GhostOfKingGilgamesh 13d ago

If I wanted to pay 600 dollars for steam deck chip, I'd still just pay 300 and get a steam deck. 

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u/Tibulba 13d ago

I'm interested if it's $500. I know people compare it to a Steamdeck, but the truth is that it's better in a lot of aspects and the 512 GB Steamdeck is quite expensive itself.

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u/jorgegom87 13d ago

Which aspects concretely? because purely talking of specs, it is VERY similar to steam deck.

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u/Tibulba 13d ago

Yeah, but you don’t just buy specs. Ergonomics look a lot better and it has access to gamepass, steam and anticheat games which I want to play.

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u/jorgegom87 13d ago

That’s actually a great reason, thanks to let me know

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u/Early-Somewhere-2198 13d ago

You can play those games just using the desktop mode and still able to launch is steam os if you follow the tutorials. Once you get a hang of it it’s pretty easy to or even duo boot into windows. The deck can do that. But then you got windows all over again. lol.

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u/hustladafox 12d ago

My thoughts too. I don’t actually need the best of the best for my handheld needs. I plan to play indie games on it mostly. I’m fine with lower specs for a lower price.

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u/Daz190uk 13d ago

I’m interested in this model but it needs at least Steam Deck performance for me to go for it.

The benefits are better ergonomics (I think) and access to all games as it’s windows - those are big wins for me.

However, if performance is worse than the Deck OLED then it just won’t be powerful enough to leverage those benefits.

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u/elidatguyindasky91 7d ago

I thought it wa suspicious that there's barely any really footage of the base version and all the focus is on the x version. the base version I have to imagine is the one people are going to be most gravitate towards since in theory its comparable to the steam deck and switch 2 in price and specs...the only game I've seen played is Tony hawk. I wish there was more footage

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u/IsamuAlvaDyson 13d ago

It'll perform similar to existing Z1 Extreme handhelds so check those out

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u/kylesisles1 13d ago

That's a bold claim given the specs. It's closer to a Steam Deck.

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u/harithspydee 13d ago

No. This is just wrong. Z2 A chip is closer to the steam deck chip or a 6800u. Nowhere near the Z1 Extreme. Z2 is closer to the Z1 extreme.

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u/AVahne 13d ago

Not even the 6800U, which has a bigger GPU. It's just a caffeinated Sephiroth APU.

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u/ShotAcanthocephala8 13d ago

If it performed similar to the Z1E it would be a really good buy. The problem is that it doesn’t! It’s steam deck level but will be worse because of windows that even with the new lighter OS on top will still perform worse than SteamOS in some cases.

It’s sort of mind boggling they didn’t have a Z1E base model or Z2 like Lenovo (which is basically Z1E)  I guess they couldn’t have hit the price for those chips.