The ROG Xbox Ally Handheld’s Release Date Has Been Revealed Alongside A Bunch Of New Info

Xbox has today revealed that both the ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X will launch on October 16th in almost every market including Australia.

The company isn’t yet revealing pricing for any market, but it did confirm the Handheld Compatibility Program which would make games that are compatible easy to identify including ‘Handheld Optimised’ and ‘Mostly Compatible’ tag’.

Xbox also announced a bunch of other features coming to the Xbox Ally X including the below:

• Automatic Super Resolution (Auto SR): A system-level feature that uses the power of the NPU to upscale games running at lower resolutions—delivering high-resolution visuals and smooth framerates across a wide range of games, with no additional changes required from game developers.

• Highlight reels: AI captures your standout gameplay moments—like epic boss battles or victories—and generates short replay clips?for you to share with friends or on social channels.

• Advanced shader delivery, a new feature that preloads game shaders during download, so select games launch up to 10x faster, run smoother, and use less battery on first play. More games will support this feature over time.

• A wide range of compatible accessories, including the newly announced ROG Raikiri II Xbox Wireless Controller—created by our partners at ASUS through the Designed for Xbox program—featuring a 1000Hz polling rate on PC mode, anti-drift TMR joysticks, and dual-mode triggers. The ROG Raikiri II Xbox Wireless Controller will ship out worldwide this holiday. More details will be shared soon.

• And even more in the coming months, including enhancements to the docking experience for the Xbox Ally and Xbox Ally X as we work to enable a seamless, high-performance setup that supports big-screen gaming, Auto SR, intuitive controller pairing, optimized display output, and more!

We’ll keep you posted once we have pricing and other release details for both handhelds, but for now, we only have to wait a few more months.

ORIGINAL STORY: Xbox has today revealed the ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X which are Xbox handhelds created by ASUS. These are created by ASUS but with new hardware, new processors and a total new software experience as well.

The ROG Xbox Ally is white and features the AMD Ryzen Z2 A processor with 16GB of memory and 512GB of storage whilst the ROG Xbox Ally X features the AMD Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme processor with 24GB of memory and 1TB of storage.

• ROG Xbox Ally: The essential handheld at a great value for everyone from the casual player to the avid enthusiast.
• ROG Xbox Ally X: The ultimate high-performance handheld, built for the most demanding players.

Both handhelds will feature the full Xbox Play Anywhere feature-set including the ability to play PC games as well as stream games from your Xbox.

Unlike other Windows handhelds, the ROG Xbox Ally will boot directly into an Xbox full screen experience that minimise background activity and tasks and it will also feature an Xbox button, contoured grips that follow the same design principles as Xbox controllers as well as accessibility features.

Both the ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X will release in Australia this Holiday and more details as well as pricing and compatible accessories will be revealed at a later date.