The Ally isn’t any April idiot

Asus has introduced the ROG Ally, ROG’s first handheld gaming console meant for taking PC video games on the go, very like a Steam Deck. However due to the day the corporate made the announcement, Asus has needed to reaffirm that sure, it’s for actual.

Initially revealed round April 1, the Asus ROG Ally is a handheld console. Its preliminary pitch video exhibits the hand-held bouncing between completely different well-liked PC video games, performed in quite a lot of areas. It’s basically much like the Steam Deck and varied different rivals which have emerged.

The factor was, this {hardware} was revealed round April 1, a.okay.a. April Idiot’s Day. A vacation for asserting pretend recreation information. So you may think about the shock when nobody responding to the unique reveal believed it was actual, doubled up by a complicated social publish on LinkedIn, as noticed by The Verge.

Nicely, now it’s April 3, and Asus is asserting that it’s “not an April Idiot’s joke,” and that the ROG Ally is actual. There’s even a Greatest Purchase web page up for notifications about new data.

It’s actual!
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— ROG International (@ASUS_ROG) April 3, 2023

A brand new Deck on deck

YouTuber Dave2D additionally posted a video, sharing some hands-on and technical particulars of Asus’ new Steam Deck competitor. Judging by his video, it looks as if Asus is theoretically making an attempt to compete with the Steam Deck; it’s received some respectable {hardware}, and appears a bit slimmer and sleeker than the Steam Deck.

However, as you may need seen, I’m nonetheless couching all my statements as a result of that is the weirdest timing to announce an really actual product. I suppose this semi-worked, as a result of it has lots of people curious. However absolutely there was already curiosity in seeing different corporations try to tackle the hand-held gaming PC market. So to me, this shall be actual when it’s on a shelf or in inventory. You’ll be able to hit up the Greatest Purchase website to join notifications about when which may happen.