Asus and Xbox have introduced a ROG Ally Certified program that will help players discern what will work on the upcoming handheld, and what won't.

From there, Microsoft is taking things one step further. The team says that if an ROG Xbox Ally game is aiming for 60FPS, it will get a "should play great" badge through its new ' Windows Performance Fit ' indicator. If 30FPS is the game's frame rate target, it'll get a "should play well" badge on ROG Xbox Ally instead.

We also got a release date: the Xbox Ally and Xbox Ally X will be released worldwide on October 16th. There's still no official price tag, though, but rumor has it that it won't come cheap.

Xbox had a massive presence at Gamescom this year, but opted to dedicate a huge booth to demoing games not on its traditional hardware, but instead the upcoming ROG Xbox Ally X. Officially announced earlier this year,

It seems that the ROG Xbox Ally X’s processor might not match the might of the MSI Claw 8 AI+, but performance might not be everything.