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A new deal popped up today for a premium level gaming handheld at an entry-level price. For a limited time, Woot is offering a Grade A refurbished Asus ROG Ally Z1 Extreme gaming handheld PC for just $423.99 after you apply 20% off coupon code “CHEERS”. If you’re a first time Woot customer, the discount…

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The OLED version of the Xbox Ally X20 is launching next month at an official price tag of $1,299.

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,…