It’s a bit of fashion at the moment with the release last Thursday of the new Nintendo hybrid console, we are obviously talking about Switch 2. And after rumors for long months and a virgin computex 2025 of all announcements linked to Microsoftit is ultimately at Summer Game Festduring his Xbox Games Showcasethat Microsoft has just formalized its two First portable consoles In collaboration with Xbox.
So here are the news Xbox ROG Ally X et Xbox ROG Ally which differ essentially on their color but also on the embedded apu since the Xbox Rog Ally X will be the most powerful of the two. We find basically what we already have with the Rog Ally range which use the APUs of the previous generation. Indeed, this is a big first and we will finally be entitled by the end of the year when the first machines arrived with a AMD Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme et AMD Ryzen Z2A. Lenovo had already announced a Legion Go 2 during CES 2025 last January but since then, there has been no concrete info.
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Design
As for design, the photos speak for themselves and we immediately notice that unlike the classic ASUS-PC consoles, the two Xbox Rog Ally offer two ergonomic handles with a grip that is reminiscent of what the Sony PS Portal offers. This will allow you to have a better support of all the different hands sizes but above all, according to Microsoft, this allows a grip similar to an Xbox controller. As on the ASUS versions, there are two USB-C ports with the DisplayPort 2.1 support and even Thunderbolt 4 on the Xbox Rog Ally X. If by default, USB-C ports are USB 3.2 Gen 2, the Xbox Rog Ally X has one of its two USB-C ports USB-4.
We stay under windows
If we are entitled to ask ourselves the question, we had the answer fairly quickly since the Xbox Rog Ally will not use a brand new bone. We could have thought of an Xbox OS to compete with Steam OS but it is not. Basically, Microsoft has worked for a while to develop a kind of “big picture” for its Xbox application on Windows, a bit like Steam. We remember that Steam did the same before offering Steam OS, which absolutely does not mean that we will never have Xbox OS. We will see over time. The fact remains that the Xbox Rog Ally will therefore work under Windows and we can install everything and anything like Steam or Battle.net. We still hope that Microsoft has focused to optimize Windows to offer a more swift version and especially with the strict essential. Suddenly, that makes us think that for the moment, we do not know if Xbox games will run native or cloud. Indeed, during the Xbox Games Showcase, we were sold that all the games will run but we do not yet know how. We should have more information shortly.
L’App Xbox en Big Picture
As we can see, apart from the Xbox Rog Ally Same consoles, most of the announcement comes down to the new user interface that the Xbox app will soon offer. As we said above, if it works under Windows, it now offers an optimized user interface for consoles like Xbox Rog Ally. So expect to have these updates also on Windows-PC consoles, which is excellent news in itself. We will notice on the Xbox Rog Ally a new dedicated Xbox button that will allow you to launch the Xbox application. Microsoft still talks about optimization to take into account applications dedicated to manufacturers like Armoury Crate at Asus but above all a joystick navigation.
Technical characteristics
As we know now, we are entitled to two consoles, the Xbox Rog Ally X and the Xbox Rog Ally, less swift and therefore less expensive. We start with the Xbox Rog Ally X which embarks an APU AMD Ryzen Ai Z2 Extreme, 24GB of RAM and 1TO of SSD. The Xbox Rog Ally will have an AMD Ryzen Z2 A, 16GB of RAM and 512GB of SSD. We have 6th WiFi with Bluetooth 5.4, a respective battery of 80Wh and 60Wh, all in a size of 290.8 × 121.5 × 50.7mm for a weight of 670g for the Xbox Rog Ally and 715g for the Xbox Rog Ally X.
Besides, there is a microSD port and we find a 7 -inch touch screen with a Full HD 1080p definition with a 120Hz refreshment rate and a light of 500 nits (these are the same characteristics as the Rog Ally X that we tested here). We also have Freesync Premium, an anti-reflection coating and Gorilla Glass Victus. During the presentation, we noticed that Microsoft was talking about “Impulse” triggers and if we are not sure, it seems that it looks very much like Sony offers with his dualsense controller. There are also two additional buttons on the back, like the Rog Ally X.
Price and availability
Obviously, we expect info on the subject and today, we do not yet know at what prices will be the two Xbox Rog Ally if it is not that they will be available by the end of the year. Microsoft talks about “The Holydays”, which often means the end of year celebrations. The two will be available in several countries including France, which is good news for us.
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