ROG Xbox Ally X: The Ars Technica review

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Comparing ROG Xbox Ally X benchmarks on the Xbox Full-screen Experience (FSE) and the standard Windows 11 desktop. Here's Doom: The Dark Ages. Kyle Orland Comparing ROG Xbox Ally X benchmarks on the Xbox Full-screen Experience (FSE) and the standard Windows 11 desktop. Here's Doom: The Dark Ages. Kyle Orland Comparing ROG Xbox Ally X benchmarks on the Xbox Full-screen Experience (FSE) and the standard Windows 11 desktop. Here's Cyberpunk 2077. Kyle Orland Comparing ROG Xbox Ally X benchmarks on the Xbox Full-screen Experience (FSE) and the standard Windows 11 desktop. Here's Cyberpunk 2077. Kyle Orland Comparing ROG Xbox Ally X benchmarks on the Xbox Full-screen Experience (FSE) and the standard Windows 11 desktop. Here's Borderlands 3. Kyle Orland Comparing ROG Xbox Ally X benchmarks on the Xbox Full-screen Experience (FSE) and the standard Windows 11 desktop. Here's Borderlands 3. Kyle Orland Comparing ROG Xbox Ally X benchmarks on the Xbox Full-screen Experience (FSE) and the standard Windows 11 desktop. Here's Cyberpunk 2077. Kyle Orland Comparing ROG Xbox Ally X benchmarks on the Xbox Full-screen Experience (FSE) and the standard Windows 11 desktop. Here's Borderlands 3. Kyle Orland The other major selling point of Microsoft’s Xbox FSE, as sold this summer, is an “aggregated gaming library” that includes “all of the games available on Windows” in one single mega-launcher interface. That means apps like Steam, Battle.net, GOG Galaxy, Ubisoft Connect, and EA Play can all be installed with just a click from the “My Apps” section of the FSE from the first launch. The integration of these apps into the wider Xbox FSE is spotty at best, though. For one, the new “aggregate gaming library” can’t actually show you every game you own across all of these PC gaming platforms in one place. Choosing the “installable” games filter on the Xbox FSE only shows you the games you can access through Microsoft’s own Xbox platform (including any Xbox Game Pass subscription). For othe...