Timo Schmidt writing for overkill highlights the 'Windows problem' that's holding the ASUS handheld back.
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
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Windows has been a problem on portable devices all the way back to Windows CE. Tiny11 is probably a better option for ASUS Rog Ally users.
Windows is bloated and all around sucks even more now with all the tracking and advertising. Anything that's gonna be more than just a niche product for enthusiasts is gonna need to do something like the Steam Deck
Yes Windows suck on the Ally but I’ve learned to deal with it and it’s my favorite gaming handheld by far.
I have had both Deck and now Rog Ally, and i have to agree windows is a real pita, it has some sleep / resume issues from times to time, crashes, updates, you name it. Steam Deck is truly a PC console, it just works, perfect interface, near instant sleep / resume, if you want to move from Switch to PC gaming, Steam Deck is an amazing alternative.
However, at the end of the day, Rog Ally ridiculously powerful SOC makes the effort to makes games work worth it, you get an emulation beasts that can play almost anything PS3 or Switch that you throw at it if you don't mind it devouring your battery with the most demanding games, and it can run almost any PC game with solid performance. So in the end, if you're a PC gamer used to tinkering your system, you'll do fine with the Rog Ally, if you're a console gamer, go for Steam Deck instead for the same kind of accesibility and simplicity with still pretty solid performance.
PCs in general have a Windows problem. It's hilarious to me just how much smoother the experience has been on Decks desktop mode than my laptop. Windows seems to always have an update and then struggles to download and install every time. I'm about to make the switch to Linux all together.