{"id":1426,"date":"2025-09-30T13:31:35","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T13:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.belindareedy.com\/?p=1426"},"modified":"2025-10-01T16:41:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T16:41:34","slug":"im-not-surprised-by-the-rog-xbox-allys-price-tag-and-you-shouldnt-be-either","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.belindareedy.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/30\/im-not-surprised-by-the-rog-xbox-allys-price-tag-and-you-shouldnt-be-either\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#039;m not surprised by the ROG Xbox Ally&#039;s price tag, and you shouldn&#039;t be either"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the big ROG Xbox Ally price reveal last week, I\u2019ve seen a lot of online fury directed towards Microsoft and Asus surrounding the decision to release the handheld at $599. While I appreciate that it\u2019s a lot of money, and yes, it makes the console more expensive than the Steam Deck, I just don\u2019t get the rage. You see, if you look a little bit further than Valve\u2019s handheld, at all the handheld PCs you can currently get your hands on, I don\u2019t think $599 is all that extortionate.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story on Pocket Tactics: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/rog-xbox-ally-price-reveal\">I&#039;m not surprised by the ROG Xbox Ally&#039;s price tag, and you shouldn&#039;t be either<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the big ROG Xbox Ally price reveal last week, I\u2019ve seen a lot of online fury directed towards Microsoft and Asus surrounding the decision to release the handheld at $599. While I appreciate that it\u2019s a lot of money, and yes, it makes the console more expensive than the Steam Deck, I just don\u2019t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guides"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.belindareedy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.belindareedy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.belindareedy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.belindareedy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.belindareedy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.belindareedy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1427,"href":"http:\/\/www.belindareedy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426\/revisions\/1427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.belindareedy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.belindareedy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.belindareedy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.belindareedy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}