• Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz
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    6 months ago

    Cheaper

    Isn’t the Ally a lot more expensive than the Deck?

    easier to use

    I’d also question this, obviously everyone’s familiar with windows but the handheld experience is pretty rough when compared with SteamOS.

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        6 months ago

        To be fair, that’s the low power Ally with a pretty significant 20% off sale.

        I’m not well educated on the power difference, but a quick google search shows the cheaper Ally gets about 60% the benchmarked performance of the more expensive Ally when plugged in. There’s also a significant drop when not plugged in, but less severe (only about a 20% drop in fps). Source

        I suppose the real question is how does it compare to a Steam Deck at that price, and if the drop in power is worth the price difference.

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          6 months ago

          iirc they’re all similar amd chips but the steam deck has the lowest performance by a small margin. But the steam deck uses less overhead with Linux.

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      6 months ago

      Yeah, those two are debatable at best, but the other points sure make a lot of sense, and definitely have value. I say this as a SteamDeck user who never even considered the Ally for myself.