{"id":184398,"date":"2025-10-08T02:27:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T02:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/184398\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T02:27:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T02:27:11","slug":"seven-games-tested-on-rog-xbox-ally-x-in-45-minutes-of-impressive-pre-release-footage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/184398\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven Games Tested On ROG Xbox Ally X In 45 Minutes Of Impressive Pre-Release Footage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Seven Games Tested On ROG Xbox Ally X In 45 Minutes Of Impressive Pre-Release Footage\" href=\"https:\/\/images.purexbox.com\/09c7cdaee5e71\/seven-games-tested-on-rog-xbox-ally-x-in-45-minutes-of-impressive-pre-release-footage.large.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/seven-games-tested-on-rog-xbox-ally-x-in-45-minutes-of-impressive-pre-release-footage.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"Seven Games Tested On ROG Xbox Ally X In 45 Minutes Of Impressive Pre-Release Footage\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/news\/2025\/09\/rog-xbox-ally-prices-finally-revealed-pre-orders-now-live\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X<\/a> launching next week (!), it&#8217;s no surprise that we&#8217;re starting to see some early footage of the Ally X out in the wild, and that means we can start seeing how powerful this thing really is!<\/p>\n<p>The video you see below is courtesy of YouTuber <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=J9jkjNaW1Ls\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dans ta grosse poche<\/a>, who received their ROG Xbox Ally X handheld early due to a delivery error. They&#8217;ve taken it upon themselves to record footage of seven games running on the device, with those being Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Street Fighter 6, Gears of War: Reloaded, Elden Ring, Elden Ring Nightreign, Monster Hunter Wilds and Hollow Knight: Silksong.<\/p>\n<p>They mention that the intent behind this 45-minute video isn&#8217;t to provide a detailed breakdown on how each game runs, but rather to showcase a general overview of their experiences playing the games so far. In other words, they don&#8217;t make many tweaks to things like graphics, resolution and upscaling, so the figures we&#8217;re seeing here aren&#8217;t necessarily representative of the kind of experience you&#8217;ll be getting with these titles on your personal system.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The idea [with this video] is really to have a somewhat mainstream, somewhat general approach.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So, in the footage, we see that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/games\/xbox-series-x\/clair_obscur_expedition_33\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Clair Obscur: Expedition 33<\/a> is running at anything from 30FPS-60FPS depending on the wattage being used, and it seems the graphics are all mostly on default settings &#8211; so probably anywhere from medium-high. They also mention how they won&#8217;t compromise on 1080p, so they never dip down to 720p or 900p.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/games\/xbox-series-x\/street_fighter_6\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Street Fighter 6<\/a> is described as being an excellent experience on the ROG Xbox Ally X, clearly hitting 60FPS with ease at the higher wattages and hovering around 50-60FPS when dropping the power a bit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/games\/xbox-series-x\/gears_of_war_reloaded\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gears of War: Reloaded<\/a>, which has already been demoed in the run-up to release, seems to be another excellent fit for the system, and it seems you don&#8217;t need to use the highest wattages in order to achieve a fluid 60FPS.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/games\/xbox-series-x\/elden_ring\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elden Ring<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/games\/xbox-series-x\/elden_ring_nightreign\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elden Ring Nightreign<\/a>, they seem to be getting a 30FPS+ read for the most part, although that&#8217;s with the quality settings set to &#8220;High&#8221;. The temperature seems to climb quite a bit on the &#8220;High&#8221; preset to around 75\u00b0C, but then drops significantly to 60\u00b0C when they test the &#8220;Low&#8221; preset for just a few seconds (and the FPS obviously goes up).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/games\/xbox-series-x\/monster_hunter_wilds\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Monster Hunter Wilds<\/a> seems to run at around 30-40FPS by default with a &#8220;personalised&#8221; graphics preset (presumably around medium-high again), but this is where the power of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/news\/2024\/05\/fsr-3-provides-72percent-frame-rate-boost-in-first-xbox-series-x-test\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AMD FSR<\/a> is shown off, with the game instantly jumping to over 60FPS when that frame generation toggle is activated. They say it&#8217;s a &#8220;much more satisfying&#8221; experience this way.<\/p>\n<p>And as for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/games\/xbox-series-x\/hollow_knight_silksong\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hollow Knight: Silksong<\/a>? Well, that&#8217;s just insane. In their tests, the YouTuber shows the game hitting over 300FPS in some cases, and even on the lowest power setting, it achieves 60FPS with ease (along with a temperature of just 46\u00b0C).<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a bit of how they sum up their initial experience:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are games for which this Xbox Ally X performs magnificently&#8230; as soon as you adjust [the settings] a little bit, you&#8217;re going to have something that&#8217;s going to be super, super nice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As mentioned, we suggest you don&#8217;t read too much into these initial impressions until the likes of Digital Foundry and other testers get their hands on the Ally X &#8211; we need to see a lot more detail in terms of how games run at different settings, wattages, resolutions, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Based on what we&#8217;re seeing here though, it seems many games are going to run at 60FPS comfortably on the ROG Xbox Ally X, while others will benefit from frame generation and\/or just tweaking the settings in order to provide a more fluid experience than 30FPS if you want it. That&#8217;s the benefit of having a gaming PC in your hands!<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully we&#8217;ll have a lot more to share on the ROG Xbox Ally over the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>Any thoughts about this very early footage? Tell us down in the comments section below.<\/p>\n<p class=\"avatar\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/avatar.jpg\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Fraser Gilbert\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Fraser is the News Editor at Pure Xbox, where he spends his time reporting on the biggest stories in the world of Xbox and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X launching next week (!), it&#8217;s no surprise that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,185,81533,86,56,54,55,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-184398","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-handhelds","10":"tag-rog-xbox-ally-x","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom","15":"tag-xbox"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}