To be fair the Steam Defck being pumped in price puts it on the level of a Ally X, which has better hardware, and I suspect most who wanted a Deck are capable of installing their own OS on better hardware for the same price…
Plus a 2280 slot so if SSD prices are ever sane again you can drop 8TB + 2TB on a sd card in it instead of the horrible overpriced tiny storage slot Valve used. To be fair ASUS did the same with the Flow, and the original Ally, but enough people complained they changed it for the new model.
If the Ally X hasn’t increased in price it’s because they’re burning stock. The RAM price increase will hit them too so they will inevitably go up in price or stop selling.
Plus, the Ally doesn’t have trackpads and doesn’t officially support SteamOS, and I suspect the opposite, i.e. the majority of people who buy a Steam Deck don’t want to install their own OS.
Unfortunately, the Ally X doesnt have trackpads which is must have for games like strategy and point&click. The lack of trackpads in this hardware category is astounding, actually.
To be fair the Steam Defck being pumped in price puts it on the level of a Ally X, which has better hardware, and I suspect most who wanted a Deck are capable of installing their own OS on better hardware for the same price…
Plus a 2280 slot so if SSD prices are ever sane again you can drop 8TB + 2TB on a sd card in it instead of the horrible overpriced tiny storage slot Valve used. To be fair ASUS did the same with the Flow, and the original Ally, but enough people complained they changed it for the new model.
If the Ally X hasn’t increased in price it’s because they’re burning stock. The RAM price increase will hit them too so they will inevitably go up in price or stop selling.
Plus, the Ally doesn’t have trackpads and doesn’t officially support SteamOS, and I suspect the opposite, i.e. the majority of people who buy a Steam Deck don’t want to install their own OS.
Unfortunately, the Ally X doesnt have trackpads which is must have for games like strategy and point&click. The lack of trackpads in this hardware category is astounding, actually.
As someone with the Steam Deck OLED and a Nintendo switch 2 with the LCD screen, I couldn’t imagine paying Ally X prices for an LCD screen.
Deck OLED screen is far and away the best option and I got it for sub $700 back when it launched.
NS2 is incredible piece of kit for the price, and the best way to play any Nintendo exclusives… but I’d rather play any multiplat games on deck OLED.