During a series of Xbox Demo personally at 2025 Summer Game Fest, I got a chance to play Gears of Battle: Reloaded In the coming handheld of the company: The Rogue Xbox Elx. The 7 -inch screen looks beautiful, and the remost of this game is amazing, regardless of what size it is on the screen (I also played it on some big TV screens). But the most notable about the Rog Xbox Elite was, unfortunately, how tired were just 20 minutes after playing my arms Gears of war Remistor
Designing a handheld console is a Titrip Walk. If I’m playing at home, I want a device that is powerful enough to compete with my TV or gaming PC. If I am longing on the sofa while playing your Switch 2 or Steam Deck, this is a reason I need to be not reaching the remote and instead playing just one game on TV. For me, a handheld console must also be so mild that it feels really portable – on which you can throw in a purse or bag and bring it to a place where it is. Will not Compete directly with your TV or PC. So it needs to divide the difference between being powerful enough to run the modern AAA games and they need to look better than your TV, and still not powerful that it weighs from your travel bag.
Most important, no matter what In I am playing it, a handheld need to stay comfortable for hours at a time. The original Nintendo switch had no problem. Before you also look at its negative weight (though you believe it can see how many contemporary AAA game it can play). On the steam deck, I can feel this weight very quickly, impressively processing power on one side. And if this rogue is Xbox Elx – Well, I’ve definitely not played it for a long time to know it, but I have held it and played the game for about 20 20 minutes, and in that short time it was a problem.
Let’s talk on the ROG Xbox ally X Single
Photo: Microsoft
The Xbox ally comes in two versions, just like the Xbox Series X and S Consoles: a small and one larger. As a proud owner of the Xbox Series (which I love with the name “Baby Xbox”), I will probably be fine with the small Xbox ally. But the main reason I am saying is actually weight. Let’s enter the numbers, will we do?
Console |
Weight |
|---|---|
| Nintendo Switch + Joey Kin (2017) | 398 g (14.03 oz) |
| Switch light | 275 g (9.7 oz) |
| Switch OLED + Joy-Cons | 420g (14.82 oz) |
| Lcd steam deck | 669 g (23.6 oz / 1.47 pounds) |
| Steam deck OLED | 640g (22.58 ounces / 1.41 pounds) |
| Switch 2 + Joy Who | 534 g (18.84 ounce / 1.18 pounds) |
| Lenovo Legion Go (Base Module) | 640 g (1.41lbs) |
| Rogue El X (2024) | 678 g (23.84 oz / 1.49 pounds) |
| Rogue Xbox ally | 670 g (1.48 pounds) |
| ROG Xbox Allied X | 715 g (1.58 pounds) |
Finding all these numbers after the Xbox event was a comfort for me, because he felt to me that I didn’t imagine that the Rogue Xbox Elx was the heaviest I had ever kept. Once it reaches all of us in the holiday season, it will be the heaviest handheld in the market. (I talked to an ASUS representative in the Xbox event and put him in his concerns about his weight, but I fully recognize that it may be too late to change them. Although I tried to try.)
The interesting thing about this is that it is not really upset that many other people who are not me. This is a very serious problem, and I would say that it is also a gender to some extent. Many other reporters were with me in this program, most of them men. I heard many of these people that the way the Xbox Handheld felt in their hands – “Just like an Xbox Controller.” I can’t agree there. This is the correct form and feels very comfortable in terms of size and layout. But I wonder: Did any of these boys feel weight? Or is it just a problem for any of my height?
The thing is, my stature actually plays video games. And I play a hack of many of them in handheld format. I would say about 50 % when I’m on a big screen, the remaining 50 % in the handheld. I’m still in the Summer Game Fest still in the LA, but last night when I get home I’m going to work first my switch 2 Box and play Mario Cart World – Probably in handheld format. And although the switch 2 is heavier than my predecessor, I bet I tried yesterday that I tried yesterday how much light I feel about the Xbox Handheld I feel very relieved.
Inside the Windows OS of ROG Xbox Ex
Photo: Nintendo
All of them said, there is a lot about the Xbox Allied, which is very impressive. Unlike Steam Deck, it uses Windows, and these reading Linux users do not want to hear what I will say, but it will be a preferred operating system for most people because it is so familiar.
Over the years, I have managed to play some games on my steam deck, which was not necessary to run the device locally, but something is serious. On the contrary, the Xbox ally has steam and war -net icons that you can only click on, as well as the discarded integration. I can already tell that it would be very easy to play a lot of games there, without stirring me to work properly on my steam deck on my steam deck.
The Xbox handheld is clearly developed with force. It is heavy because there is a lot of it that helps play sports well and easily. It is certainly helping to compete with the steam deck, especially when the handheld is rapidly showing his age. Keep them all together and it can launch an impressive holidays, even the same year of switch 2.
But whenever I think of this device that enters my house, I think about how my arms hurt when I have been playing a steam deck for several hours in a row. I think about how I sometimes have to rest on my arms and still, this is not the right angle, and it’s a kind of disturbing. This is not something that most buyers will be aware of unless the device is available in their hands, but if they are anything like me in terms of size and arm strength, it will become the first thing that they take out of the box. Microsoft can only hope that as a result, they do not put the device back into the box and slap the return label on it.
