The Xbox Ally Costs HOW MUCH? - Kinda Funny Games Daily 09.26.25

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2:21What's up, everybody? Welcome! to kind of funny games daily for Friday, September 26th, 2025. I'm one of your hosts, Greg Miller, alongside Forbes 30 under 30, a.k.a. the second best baby blues in San Francisco, a.k.a. the soon to be father at Tim Geddes. I am also the New York Times quoted, correct? Yeah. I'm also the lock on more than quoted published published author. here lock on issue six is finally out lock on an incredible series of it's a gaming journal is what they call them uh i've had some of them that are more magazine-esque format but then this is like a hard cover real hard cover i mean hold this greg that is oh premium right information super super nice gaming journal uh giants returned to the indie heyday with behemoth the genre through the absurd imaginative so wait yeah i'm confused i know lock on yeah and i know lost in cult so what do you what do you what's up to here what yeah so they do this series our writers tim gettys yeah that's followed by the filthy lucy james the coolest thing about it is it is the art from yoshitaka amano who's like the final fantasy artist exclusive art made just for this which is very very cool yeah um i think this version of it is sold out okay um but you can get the like soft cover and i think there's even hard cover that aren't like this fancy one um but they in addition to this very Final Fantasy focused issue, they have other ones that focus on kind of different topics, but there's also essays about a ton of different video games in this, which is cool, but real quick, this little, I don't know what they call it.

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7:37It had very little to do with you. and has very much to do with your wife. Good energies, yes. You guys do shenanigans. All right, have fun. We love you, Troy. Love you, Abdul. I love that. That's nice. That was awesome. Everything about that was awesome. Very cool. Last, I just want to show you real quick. There's a custom art here. That's awesome, dude. For two Zanarkand. Can I read this? Yeah, not right now. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's words by Tim Gettys and then art by Alili Buika. But anyway, very, very cool. Very cool, Tim. Congratulations. Thank you. I'm proud of you. I'm very, very stoked about this.

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12:03Today we're brought to you by Shady Raisin Factor. We'll tell you about that later. For now, let's begin the show with what is and forever will be the Roper Report. Time for some news! Six items on the Roper Report. Oh, Baker's does it! Let's start with your wallet. The Asus Xbox Ally X costs$999. This is Sean Hollister over at The Verge. Of course, Super Chatters, I need to know, are you buying this? And mainly, if you were thinking, if you were on the fence about getting an Xbox Ally, are you in or are you out now? Did the price change? I need that kind of information on Super Chat. Thank you so much.

12:47But we go to Sean over at The Verge. Today, Microsoft and Asus are officially opening pre-orders for the ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X at$599 and$999, respectively, in the United States of America. They both ship October 16th. There's a few different ways to look at those prices. If you're used to console pricing, Microsoft's first Xbox handhelds are not cheap. Even the vanilla white Xbox Ally costs$150 more than a Switch 2, which itself was criticized for price. And it costs$100 more than a far more powerful Xbox Series X did at launch in the US. Microsoft's new Xbox price hike notwithstanding.

13:26In Europe and the UK, the weaker of the two allies cost the same as an Xbox Series X. But you can't play that Xbox in a passenger seat. And if you're a PC gamer or want to be, things look a little bit rosier. These Xbox handhelds will be the first with a new build of Windows that hides the desktop and Explorer shell, frees up gobs of memory for your game, and hopefully lets you navigate slowly by controller. Handhelds have unfortunately been getting pricier and pricier anyhow, to the point flagship ones now cost as much as gaming laptops. At$999, the Xbox Ally X might compare well to the$999 MSI Claw 8 AI +, or the$1350 Lenovo Legion Go 2 that offers the same AMD Z2 Extreme chip you'll find here, particularly because my colleagues and I agree the new allies have one of the most comfortable designs we've ever held.

14:18parentheses, in summary, prongs rock. Just know, you're getting a wild card if you opt into the 599 Ally, as it contains a never-before-seen Ryzen Z2 A processor that's much more like the chip in the Steam Deck. Instead of 8 Zen 5 CPU cores and 16 RDNA 3.5 GPU cores designed to run between 15 and 35 watt TDP, you're getting 4 Zen 2 CPU cores and 8 RDNA 2 GPU cores, designed to run between 6 and 20 watts for lower performance gaming timothy yes you and i love handheld gaming enthusiasm period you are the tech guy i am i want it to work and i want my my games on the go i have been very vocal about how much i'm excited for uh the xbox ally x and the xbox ally for people getting into it this new hell uh form factor that i got to hold at sgf i love.

15:14I, of course, already am a staunch proponent of the ROG Ally X. It is one that I have here and use nearly every day. It has replaced just about my remote, unless I'm playing like Ghost, it's going to be my remote device. It's what I'm doing. It's what I'm taking on a plane unless I'm doing something. You are the tech guy, though. So I'm more interested right now at this jump of our conversation of do these prices surprise you? Does it stack up well? Where are you at as somebody who follows this kind of stuff? These are the exact prices that I've been saying this is going to end up at. And that does not make me Nostradamus.

15:48That's just what these things cost. Like we have standards at this point for what this level of hardware is going to cost. I'm not saying that it's a market viable product at that price. I do think that like it is kind of crazy. However, it is because the market has been speaking. People are buying these handhelds. And I think that this one is because of the marketing that is going to get the extra marketing from Xbox. Sure. I do think it's going to end up selling relatively well uh compared to what i think a lot of people's gut instinct would be of like who the fuck is this for who would ever buy this um i don't think it's for everybody after all i also think that the prices are incredibly high so that's the kind of trouble here is these numbers are in line with what i expected there might be a hundred dollars more on each skew than possible but with where we're at with tariffs and everything not surprised especially when you look at the hardware side on xbox and how they've been increasing their prices like this is just where we're at in the world you know if it was any cheaper it would be like all right microsoft are really shooting themselves in the foot because you can't subsidize that much or else you're going they will lose money on this i think yeah uh with where they're at now it's going to be i think a more interesting conversation of looking at how many millions of units are we talking about here are we talking about millions of units um and beyond that i think it's the concept of how much of a foothold is the portable gaming pc market going to start to take on gaming as a whole and i do think that we are still very small but it is going to continue to grow and the point being made about these prices being more similar to gaming laptops i do think that that is the way to look at this is it is a different style of gaming laptop and i think that that market is going to be very disrupted by um these systems as they mature and as they get more mainstream marketing and mainstream mainstream placement in best buys and the the places that uh casual consumers are going to buy these things because remember the steam deck is only available on steam so so far the market leader in this space is by design a niche product so what's going to happen as we're in this place now where we do have the competition between um all of the the rod stuff but we have lenovo we have msi we have a lot of others that are doing really interesting things but i do think the interesting things of each one at this point are just trying to find a a foothold in their own place in the industry of being able to see and touching the the fence of like how much can we get away with how often can we update these things how how up to date do these skews need to be or are we gonna kind of treat it more like console generations like we're seeing steam deck do so um again a lot of words that i'm saying here but these prices don't surprise me um and i think that xbox has made a lot of good calls for this despite um also making a lot of really boneheaded decisions overall when it comes to how they've talked about this and setting expectations for what i think that's an interesting call out if you're not paying attention maybe you just hear this kicked around every so often they announced the price and released pre-orders yesterday this thing comes out october 16th that's 21 days away yeah for the longest time there's been this wait what the fuck wait you can't get these yet with it what is the price and yada yada i wonder how much of that is they know sticker shock is going to exist no matter what how much of it also was riding the tariffs of seeing where we're going to net out how far we get before we have to make the actual call here and what it is i'm with you of we've had this conversation lots of times about where it's going to price and what it's going to be the prices don't surprise me uh kevin already threw it up over on amazon right now if you were trying to buy an ally x you're spending 1300 for the lx that i have here that's already out right if you went to the the rog site you could get it for 800 in quotes but it's sold i have to notify me so i think it's like there's a markup on demand there so an 800 however old system this is to then where we are with a brand new one a different controller feel all this xbox business locked into it stuff i think you're it makes sense for what they're doing and why they're doing it but i don't think you're wrong about anything you said right i think you're being very level-headed i'm so i saw our chat popping off oh this is dead on arrival it's this that the other i don't get that vibe at all i don't think xbox or asus is betting the farm on this this isn't they this i think you could take right now the conversation we're about to have and grab our playstation 5 pro conversation and bring it in and just find and replace because it is the thing of like who needs this who's it for there's an audience that this is for there's an audience that's going to want this you could build one of the one over here from zeke speak i know i'm sorry uh gary says for that price you could build one yourself well not a gaming handheld i mean the laptop sure but this is like a different thing and it's like but you wouldn't like convenience and ease is what they're going everyone's going for and what xbox is pushing for this i i agree with you overall uh and the the comparisons that you're trying to make in terms of luxury products when it comes to ps5 pro and um and these devices but i think the difference is to me and like look the ps5 pro has and now that we are almost a year into it existing a slew of problems that are unacceptable when you really look at the fact that some of the things that it's supposed to enhance and solve it is making worse and causing even new problems and like that's not across the board but there are way too many cases of that being the situation that is incredibly not acceptable for a premium luxury version of an already incredibly expensive product um then we look at this side though with xbox with where they're at with the concept of their os and the way that they are trying to change what windows gaming is to xbox gaming and redefining xbox overall i do think that this is more of a step than a half step even if it is in a direction that doesn't seem like the hallway to go down if that makes sense because i know that a lot of people like they should just make their own hardware it's like this clearly is a statement that that's not what they're doing this is they are partnering with others and they are looking at their software ecosystem as how do we get it on as much hardware as possible and what are the right decisions to make that can allow us to just have these games be played as opposed to needing to focus on so much r &d hardware development coming up with the pricing coming up with all that stuff here they're partnering it and asus has to shoulder a lot of those decisions and a lot of kind of the market strategy of where these things are going to go how they're going to um compete with like-minded products and then microsoft and xbox can help promote that in their showcases and you know remind the core gamers that are watching video game commercials back to back to back to back yeah hey here's this cool way that you can play these things if that speaks to you it's not going to speak to everybody but of course undeniably the pc gaming space is growing by the day and the desire to play console quality pc quality games in handheld form i think is well past the it's for little kids on road trips and is now like oh that is a core way that gamers play games yeah i think that is going to continue to be true well i think you know you say a lot of stuff there that i agree with and i'm on the same page with i think again it's not so much that i view this as a half step as much as i view it as i don't think either asus or xbox is looking at this going like this thing's going to move 20 million units in the first year you know what i mean like yeah i don't think they have those level of expectations i think that they both know that asus especially like this is what we do we know what the success of the ally is already you put the xbox branding on it it'll bring in more people and more eyes but i don't think it's going to go supernova and i'm sure xbox knows that they have a hill to climb here and so that's the funny thing is like 20 million right no like that that'd be very very very stupid of them if that were the the sales goals they're looking at but three million like that's a lot that that is especially the price we're talking about but like that is a lot of money but i think that there's more riding on this than other situations that are similar like the legion go for example and the various versions of the legion systems um because of how much xbox is putting into it from the xbox side of things yeah so i think that there's so many questions about this of like it just working i think there's gonna be so many people's first time with gaming handheld ever like they've waited this long they've been interested in the steam deck but they're console people now xbox is doing one there's going to be so many people that are getting their hands on this for the very first time are the prongs going to be the right move i imagine they are for those gamers right yeah is it going after playing so much retaton on the way back from new york or whatever and i was feeling it in my hands like god i'm looking forward to the grips i'm very excited but yeah that's the thing is like like they are still a unknown because yeah people have got hands on it a pax or a gamescom or whatever but like what's the extended play like play of this and like for something that is portable like do those things get in the way in any way of uh moving them around or whatever again i don't think they're going to i think that this is a good move forward for these things especially something to differentiate it from so many different um handheld systems that we've had already yeah but at the end of the day the conversation around the success of this i don't think in the early days is going to be based around sales because i do expect it's going to sell out that's just where this is at i don't think that these things are going to be able i don't think they're going to be able to keep up with supply for this even at the price that it's at i don't think it's like gonna be like getting the we back in the day but i do think it's going to be just like uh yours is right now like not available on amazon directly i get some hey you gotta wait for this type shit or uh spend a premium right yeah so i think that the real thing is going to be the more critical actual reviews of what this does and doesn't do.

25:43And I think there's going to be more focus on that in the public eye than there has been for the majority of these systems, besides probably the Steam Deck. And this is back to it again, of like what you're talking about. The Steam Deck changed the game, I think, on handheld gaming because it was Steam and because it was Valve and all this different stuff, right? But that didn't go, quote unquote, mainstream. And again, I go back to this New York trip I just did to see Fallout 76, which I can't talk about yet, but I will. but in that Microsoft experience store right it was the wraparound banner of this thing play anywhere and it was you know animated at one point I went to Claire Obscura I tried to eat you a photo but it went too fast but it was like they you know it's coming in and they had a demo unit they had it like they they're getting to the streets and when this actually launches I do expect to see the commercial during NFL I was like I want to say NBA I was like they're not playing right now NFL games right of like hey this is what's happening and do I think that a lot of people know oh that's interesting and go to look at it like holy shit fuck a thousand dollars or what was it 599 us dollars like that's a lot i don't know about that blah blah blah but i don't know i don't think you're going to convey you're going i don't know if there's so many different layers of convincing people to do this and i don't think you're trying to get somebody to go from nothing to having it yeah more that i want my my games that i like playing madden i like playing this i'd like to be able to play that on the go you know in the same way yeah i mean and And again, I think that all of that is hopefully this works the way it needs to.

27:08And I do have a lot of faith in it. I do think that they are making the right moves, but I'm still trepidatious about it. I'm not sure that it's going to hit the way that they need it to, mainly because of what you're saying about the eyes on this, the marketing on this. This is going to be a way more mainstream presented product, and that is then going to get way more mainstream critical thoughts and reactions. And again, if this doesn't work, if it doesn't just work, and guess what? It's not going to just work. People can be upset. And then it's the level of the people that are more in this already know what they're talking about, comparing it to other similar products that in some ways might be half the price.

27:51And in some ways might be 50 % more when you look at some of the Legion products. And I think that the big question is going to be where is the value proposition? like is it worth buying a steam deck for half the price yeah an older model because it's good enough and it plays the games or is this the step up from the years old at this point steam deck that is going to make the difference i'm very excited like i'm happy i can't wait to get my hands on it focused on yeah and yeah i love this i love luxury tech products that's what this is no a thousand percent yeah yeah but i mean i love this one so much i can't wait to see what the next version of it is running a simple OS that's supposedly designed to bring all my storefronts together and blah blah blah.

28:35It's music to my ears of what I want to see what it's like when we get it. Zeke speaks Super Chats though and goes, My big fear is future proof. Will Microsoft keep supporting it? I don't think that's... Let me talk for a second. You tell me where I'm wrong. I don't think that's a concern. Like, I guess your future proofing concern would be are they supporting their new OS thing? But if they got that working to the degree that it's supposed to have everything together yeah there might there's going to be clunkiness five years in but it would still be going it would just be a five-year-old pc i don't i don't think i don't have concern that xbox is about to launch this and then two years from now go fuck man xbox planning where as a disaster we're taking that away so now we're back to having xbox games and pc games and saves don't move between them and stuff like that yeah that stuff definitely not in terms of future proofing i mean uh again i i do think they're testing the fence uh still with all this stuff of like how often know we're going to get upgrades for these i i think that the safe bet would be once every two years we're going to get an upgraded uh version of this thing um but i think the so future proof it's like no it's not like no it will be a new one this brings in rumble pack who says birthday tax happy birthday uh my biggest worry about the ally is longevity i'd hate to drop a band on the ally x only to have rog drop a better one in a year or two and that's that that was my whole thing with the steam deck i loved my steam deck and then they dropped the oled steam deck a year later and i was like i don't play my steam deck enough to justify that thing yeah then i was like i'll wait for steam deck 2 and i've been waiting forever and then the rock came you're still gonna be waiting got the rock and i was like holy shit this is great and now this xbox one but what does that mean for where steam deck 2 fits in i mean that's giant thing i do think that uh on on the non-steam side i expect all of them are going to continue iterating until they find their their their core product that they might be able to just be happy with and like maybe then come out with the OLED version instead of like a full new generation type transition.

30:25But yeah, it's going to be a very interesting time for them in terms of the future proofing of Xbox and all that. Like, I think the bigger question is not so much about the support. It's about the like, can they get it right? Like, do they get it right to begin with and continue to support it there? Like, this Windows gaming situation is a lofty promise that I think that the words are very nice. They're very nice. I just don't have faith that it's going to work the way that they're saying it's going to and that the way people expect it to. And I hope that I'm wrong about that. I just feel like this is kind of a cart before the horse situation in some ways of the way that this has rolled out and like the getting the price now and all that stuff doesn't give me faith that all this stuff is kind of like locked away in the same way that Apple is selling phones that were now last year's phone.

31:16and now this year's phone, we're waiting for the Siri AI upgrade stuff. It's like so much of the value proposition and new shiny stuff of these phones is this new AI stuff and it's still not here. It's coming, but it's still not here and it's like, okay, cool. I believe the words, but I don't believe you. The question is still from my mouth from Duro there. So where does this hesitance come from, Tim? The Ally X Greg has right there, has it figured out already. Are you talking about the interface and having it all work that way flawlessly? Yes. I'm talking about all of that stuff and being able to figure out the Steam Deck, having the different proton experimentals and having to switch and all that stuff.

32:01Like, can't be doing that. If it's just supposed to function like an Xbox does. Those little things are the difference between buying a product on a website that specifically sells that thing and going to a Microsoft store. here's where i jump in right as somebody who uses this one i've never had to do the proton or any of that jazz over here this one does just do that where i pop into a steam game or i pop into an xbox game or whatever and yeah i'm sure there's a ton of examples where it doesn't and if that happens then what do you do that to me is like part of the the thing there i think it's more the not believing it is how the windows experience is going to just when you boot this thing up you go into the games you can play on all the different storefronts and all that shit and how it works saving back and forth like we'll see irk the imp says that i think the bigger success from microsoft will be if this version of handheld windows is more widely accepted on more devices of course exactly and that's what i think they want of course there was a new story on games daily a couple weeks ago right that people had already through whatever update figure out a way to get it on to their already existing allies with that xbox things but obviously there's hoops to jump through but clearly i think xbox wants to launch this this be the thing and then would love to put it on all sorts of systems and you assume do back-end magic to be able to save it the way they want to save it yeah uh and then our final one on this uh well no actually two and i i'm putting you on the spot here because this is in your neck of the woods hold my hand uh norman super chats and says what does this really offer that a cheaper steam deck oled doesn't i mean it's it's the promise of the xbox ecosystem and i think that that again is a heavy tax to pay for an ecosystem right now that you either care about or you don't and i think if you're on the pc side of things you're probably on steam and steam's done a very good job of keeping you there and doing great things but to our point that we keep making i think that this is more targeted towards an xbox console player so it is a completely different proposition of like who this is for but i think then comes the problem of it's not an xbox console it's an xbox pc yeah and does xbox pc have the stuff but this is more powerful than a steam deck oled yeah yeah but that doesn't mean anything if it's not optimized and that's the thing is like having things be like steam deck optimized and all of that it's like will windows be able to get that buy-in from enough of the developers and will it work and all of that like that is a huge question and again i i the more groups that are being forced to do this because there's products that they're all trying to sell that's going to be good for everybody sure yeah there's more to be more emphasis on making sure that it does just work um but again it has to just work if it doesn't what's the point of these products they're than just niche products and that's fine and that's where we're at currently and like if that just maintains hey a lot of people are incredibly happy with these things and our final comment on this one before we move on comes from phil phil super chats and says i spent 950 on an alienware laptop 15 years ago if you can't afford this pc gaming isn't for you there's nothing wrong with that i ordered says phil a little bit of randy pitchford in there if you can't afford but it is the idea yeah of like what's going on with all this i mean yeah it's it's uh it's hard to talk about pricing on products like this because at the end of the day you can't just give things away it'd be nice if this was 300 you'd be incredibly competitive right that's not reality in any way shape or form things have a hard cost of course the hard cost of these is not going to go down anytime soon having said that there are a ton of options out there and go back to the question of Like what makes this better than steam deck?

35:28It's like the beauty of video games right now is we are meeting in the middle across the board everywhere. So it's like, yeah, there isn't necessarily going to be that big of a difference because all games are now being able to be played at incredibly low end systems. You can build a dope ass PC for a thousand dollars. You could build an even better one for$3 ,000, but you're playing the same games. Fair enough, Tim. We're going to move on to story number two, right after I remind you about our two sponsors because this is Kind of Funny Games Daily and we couldn't do it without their support or yours.

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40:43He will be succeeded by Devin Pritchard, a 19-year veteran of the video game industry and long-standing member of the NOA leadership team. Then we go on a bunch of different stuff about that, but that's the big part for right now. Bowser's distinguished tenure includes delivering on the promise of the Nintendo Switch system to change the way people play video games and bring new experiences to a broad range of consumers. Earlier this year, he expanded on that mission when he oversaw the launch of Nintendo Switch 2 in the Americas and helped establish the system as the best-selling video game console of all time in its initial sales period.

41:15Also, during his time with Nintendo, the company saw a significant expansion into entertainment ventures such as theme parks and films, all with the goal of giving more people more opportunities to engage with Nintendo's characters and worlds. Quote, One of my earliest video game experiences was playing the arcade version of Donkey Kong, said Bowser. Since that time, all things Nintendo have continued to be a passion for both me and my family. Leading Nintendo of America has been the honor of a lifetime, and I am proud of what our team has accomplished in both business results and the experience we've created for consumers.

41:47Now it's time for the next generation of leadership, and Devin's track record speaks for itself. She is an exceptional leader, and her promotion is a testament to her strong performance and strategic contributions to the company's growth. I have full confidence that she will guide the company to even greater heights, end quote. Pritchard has held executive positions in marketing, business affairs, and publisher relations and currently serves as NOA's executive vice president of revenue, marketing, and consumer experiencing. Putting Nintendo fans at the top of her agenda, Pritchard plans to build on many experiences that allow consumers to connect with Nintendo characters and worlds from video games to entertainment to retail experiences.