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Asus has finally given the ROG Xbox Ally X20 its own price. The brand is now selling the 20th-anniversary handheld on its own—no need to buy the ROG XREAL R1 Edition 20 Gaming AR Glasses, which were previously part of a not-sold-separately bundle.

Asus revealed pricing for the standalone version of its ROG Xbox Ally X20 today at Gamescom, Europe’s biggest video game expo. The special-edition OLED gaming handheld will cost $1,299.99, or $300 more than last year’s original Xbox Ally X.

Valve’s Steam Deck OLED and the ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X sit at opposite ends of the same idea: a handheld PC you can hold in two hands and play real games on. One runs Linux and costs less than it did last year. The other runs Windows 11, packs a newer Ryzen chip, and…

Three gaming handhelds now define the top of the market, and none of them agree on how to get there. The Lenovo Legion Go 2 bets on a detachable-controller flagship with AMD’s newest Zen 5 silicon. The ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X leans into Microsoft’s Xbox branding and a tighter, lighter chassis. The MSI Claw…

Asus and Microsoft sell two versions of the same handheld idea, and the price tag between them is bigger than most people expect. The ROG Xbox Ally starts at $599.99. The ROG Xbox Ally X costs $999.99. That’s a $400 gap for a device that looks nearly identical on a store shelf, runs the same…

ASUS just backed off one of the more polarizing bets of its 20th-anniversary lineup. On August 14, 2026, a company spokesperson confirmed to The Verge that the ROG Xbox Ally X20, the OLED flagship handheld unveiled at Computex in June, will ship as a standalone device instead of being locked to a roughly $2,000 bundle…

The handheld gaming PC market just got its clearest fork in the road yet. On one side sits Valve’s Steam Deck OLED, a device that has spent three years proving that a Linux-based, console-like handheld can outsell expectations and keep getting cheaper relative to its power. On the other is Asus and Microsoft’s joint effort,…

Ten months after Microsoft and ASUS put the Xbox brand on a handheld gaming PC for the first time, the ROG Xbox Ally is selling for less than $500. Best Buy has been listing the base model at $497.99 to $499.99 through late July and into August 2026, a roughly 17 percent discount off the…

Alongside its now-live Back to School sale, Best Buy is currently offering the standard Xbox ROG Ally in open-box “Excellent” condition for $497.99 shipped. A brand-new unit will set you back $600 these days, so you’re looking at just over $102 in savings, or roughly 17% off, without having to settle for a heavily used…

The Steam Deck has inspired a variety of competitors in the portable gaming PC market, including the ROG Ally. These handhelds let you access your PC library wherever you are, whether that’s a long flight or on the couch watching TV, possessing the versatility of a smartphone or Nintendo Switch while harnessing the power of…