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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…

A Steam Deck OLED costs $549 and runs Cyberpunk 2077 at roughly 30 frames per second. A GPD Win 5 costs up to $2,955 and pushes the same game past 60 frames per second at a sharper resolution. That gap sits at the center of the biggest question in handheld PC gaming right now: how…

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,…

Sony has not said a word publicly, but the pattern is hard to miss. A hardware leaker with a strong hit rate, an unusually vague quote from a Sony Interactive Entertainment executive, and pricing filings that already tack Portal onto the PS5 family price sheet all point the same direction: an OLED refresh of the…

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…