The cover letter of the ASUS ROG Ally It’s too good to be true, but behind all that gigantic list of specifications is a great secret that keeps many users in suspense. And it is nothing other than the price. And it is that with similar characteristics, many fear that the manufacturer will go to 1,000 euros to offset its manufacturing cost. But you know what? It seems that the console is going to be cheaper than we thought.
All against the Steam Deck
ASUS’s plans are quite clear, or at least that is the conclusion we reached after knowing the first leaked price of the console, since two renowned leakers, such as Roland Quandt and SnoopyTech, have published in their respective profiles that the console will have a official price of $699.99 for version with AMD Z1 Extreme processor.
ASUS ROG Ally (AMD Z1 Extreme) = $699.99 https://t.co/GDkz6wZNWI
—SnoopyTech (@_snoopytech_) April 26, 2023
That is, the price would allow us to have the highest-end model from ASUS for 700 dollars, which would mean that we would have a console much more powerful than the 512 GB Steam Deck for only 51 dollars more. In the absence of knowing the price in euros, it is best to get the idea that the change will be 700 euros or slightly higher.
And what about the cheapest model?
If the price of the version with the AMD Z1 Extreme is already surprising, the final blow could be in the basic version with the Z1. Nothing has been said about this model for now, and the question is whether ASUS will be able to touch the lowest price of the 64 GB eMMC Steam Deck model, something quite complicated if we take into account that the Ally has a base with 512GB NVMe SSD.
In a few weeks we will leave doubts
Although the leaked price looks quite real, it won’t be until next May 11 when we finally leave doubts. That will be the day that ASUS celebrates the launch event of its console, so until then we will have to wait until we can find out all the official details of the launch of what will possibly be the 2023 console.
Do you think Valve is preparing the answer? Taking into account that it is not a company that is too focused on hardware (they launch very specific products), we are not very clear about what the deal will be with its brand new Steam Deck, since for this year the product could be finished in terms of new sales. it means. Because who is going to buy a Steam Deck at this point with a ROG Ally for little more and running native Windows 11?
