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Isn't the Ally a lot more expensive than the Deck?
I'd also question this, obviously everyone's familiar with windows but the handheld experience is pretty rough when compared with SteamOS.
Walmart prices:
512 GB Ally: $399
512 GB Steam Deck: $499
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.
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.
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.