A round-up of the reviews of the ASUS ROG Ally

The Verge's Sean Hollister is arguably the most critical of all the ones who published their thoughts on the ASUS ROG Ally and the author makes several good points.

In the review, Hollister described the supposed Steam Deck killer as a "big step forward for Windows handhelds" before he warned those interested of a few caveats, including the battery life and how the Windows operating system "hamstrings the handheld experience.

But, overall, the ASUS ROG Ally earned the trust of most of the critics. Not to mention, most of its issues have more to do with things that can eventually be mixed.

Now, the only question is, how long do audiences have to wait for the ASUS ROG Ally to launch?

After the initial announcement, ASUS confirmed that the most expensive configuration, and the first to launch, will have a sticker price of $700 on June 13. A scaled-down version, which boasts a 6-core/12-thread AMD Ryzen Z1 CPU, will sell for $600 sometime in Q3 later this year.

Of the two, the more expensive variant is definitely the more interesting buy, but who knows?

With battery life and optimization being the only real drawbacks of the ASUS ROG Ally, at least per the critics, we're curious to find out how the budget handheld gaming console will do when it comes out next month.