ASUS is one of the biggest PC manufacturers on the planet, best known for components such as video cards, monitors, motherboards and so much more, so it’s not surprising that Xbox has teamed up with the Taiwanese company for their next big hardware reveal. While this has been known for a little while now, previously known as Project Kennan, the device is finally approaching release.
During the Xbox Game Showcase today, Xbox revealed one of their biggest announcements in a long while: the ROG Xbox Ally. While Xbox has been known for their consoles ever since the original was released nearly twenty-four years ago, this will be one of their first ventures into the handheld market, although it’s closer to a Steam Deck than something like the Nintendo Switch.
The new handheld device will come in two different models: ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X. The former is the baseline model that will come with a Ryzen Z2 A processor, 16GB of RAM and 512GB of SSD storage, among other things. The latter will be the more premium model that has the upgraded Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme processor, 24 GB of RAM and 1TB of NVME storage....