Where are the Steam Deck Black Friday deals? It’s a question I’m asked a lot, but let me answer it with another question — what if there were better PC gaming handhelds available for cheaper?
That’s what I’ve found. Right now, the Asus ROG Ally X is down to $699 at Best Buy. That is a huge $100 saving on my favorite gaming handheld. But that’s not the only Steam Deck killer on sale, because the standard ROG Ally is $150 off and the Lenovo Legion Go is a whopping $200 off!
With these, you’re getting impressively powerful systems. But let’s address the elephant in the room — something that we've said in our Asus ROG Ally X, Asus ROG Ally and Lenovo Legion Go reviews.
As Tony Polanco says better than anyone, Windows “absolutely sucks on a handheld.” And there’s truth to that — Asus and Lenovo have tried hard to workaround this with their own launcher apps, but Windows interactions on a small screen are fiddly and can be annoying.
But I have a fix that makes me confident in calling these Steam Deck killers. Bazzite is a handy tool to install SteamOS on these Windows gaming handhelds. And as I found out in my own testing, not only is it a better UI to use, games perform better and the battery life gets better than running Windows.
So rather than waiting for Steam Deck to get a discount, just get one of these and turn them into a better Steam Deck.
