Is Microsoft’s first ever handheld Xbox console definitely worth the wait?

There’s no query the ROG Xbox Ally compares properly to many of those rivals within the house – however on the worth level, you’d count on it to.

Unfortunately, the very factor that makes the Xbox Ally X stand out in comparison with its rivals – the truth that it natively runs Windows – is on the similar time its largest stress level.

On the one hand, it permits for some enjoyable issues. It was entertaining to deliver up Copilot whereas enjoying a sport and ask for recommendation on what to do subsequent – and to be informed in a conversational technique to speak to a personality on-screen in entrance of me.

But it’s important to take care of Windows, which was hardly developed with a video games console in thoughts. I needed to sit and look forward to a number of updates to put in earlier than I may even play the factor – hardly each kid’s dream on Christmas morning.

Simply put, it is missing that bit of additional polish you would possibly count on at a premium worth.

But I do assume the individuals Microsoft is focusing on with this product are hardly going to be turned away by a scarcity of polish. Especially because it has no actual affect on the video games.

The query is whether or not the attract of Game Pass on-the-go goes to be sufficient to justify the worth of admission.

If the purpose was to make one thing that seems like a handheld Xbox, Microsoft has definitely delivered on its promise – however has it come to market too late?