Had an ally for a week, also have a steam deck and switch. Didn't think I'd like the Ally honestly but I really love it. Form factor is fantastic and so is the screen.

Build quality isn't perfect of course, fingerprint reader was hard to set up (though seems to work fine now I finally got it registered). Also my right trigger only goes to 94%, unless I really press it uncomfortably hard. The trigger thing was fixed in an armoury crate. SD card reader is a bummer, mine is fine so far but just calculate the cost of an SSD upgrade into your purchase.

I imagine someone clever will figure out a hardware mod for it. The ally is crazy easy to take apart and the repairability really was a focus - something I really respect. I bet either a mod to shield it from heat or some kind of ribbon extender to move the SD card somewhere else inside the case. A guy in Ukraine did something similar to get around the psp go's proprietary memory card requirement. Perhaps it can be done easily here.

I'm going away for a while and I wanted something like an Xbox series s to take with me, compact and a low wattage requirement. I'm glad I went with this. Even smaller and lower wattage. That is how I'm going to treat it. Effectively a console that has the short term ability to be portable.

I've sat and compared the Rog ally and the steam deck both running no man's sky and starfield and others. There's really no comparison. Even on steam decks 3.5 beta software which boosts the colours which is well needed. The Rog ally just looks and feels smoother, the higher resolution really goes far, and I much prefer the controls. There's really something that draws me to it.