Matt James

to this kind of PC non-console gaming, Steam Deck has been the answer.

And there have been a lot of, you know, pricier competitors.

But now you're looking at the landscape and, you know, would you say the one terabyte OLED is 950 now?

Is that right?

Is that what you said?

Yeah.

Because you have the famously, belovedly named ROG Xbox Ally X. Yeah.

Not enough X's in that for my liking.

I'm sure they'll work on that.

Asha Sharma's going to fix that.

But that's $1,000 now.

That's $50 more.

And it's a much more powerful piece of hardware.

It's not necessarily as easy to use as a Steam Deck, but you could also buy an ROG Xbox Ally X. Boy, I'm nailing it today.

For $50 more and install Bazite on that thing and have it functionally be a...

more performant Steam Deck.

So it's really a terrible turn of events here.

And it continues this trend of gaming hardware becoming so expensive that we're at the risk of an entire generation just not having an experience of playing video games with controllers.

Yeah, there aren't enough lawns in the neighborhood to mow for a child to be able to get into console gaming in 2026.

Well, it's warranted.