The powerful Asus ROG Ally is $80 off for the first time

04.11.2023 - 15:21 / polygon.com / Asus Rog

Black Friday is still a few weeks away, but several retailers have already begun rolling out some excellent deals worth checking out this weekend. For example, our top deal this weekend is the inaugural discount on the Asus ROG Ally, knocking $80 off the speedy handheld PC at Best Buy. Some other noteworthy deals include a pair of Humble bundles, a sizeable discount on the Xbox Elite Series 2 controller, and some personal favorites from my board game library.

As we do every weekend here at Polygon, we’ve rounded up a collection of our favorite deals from the worlds of gaming and entertainment, along with some of the best-selling products that have made a recent appearance on our site.

As mentioned above, the first substantial discount on the Asus ROG Ally is happening this week at Best Buy, as part of the retailer’s early Black Friday celebration. Right now, you can pick up the handheld gaming PC for just $619.99, its lowest price yet. People who pay for a My Best Buy Plus or Total subscription can even knock an additional $20 off the price.

While the ROG Ally is substantially more expensive than the Steam Deck, which starts at $399.99, Asus’ model has several perks: amore powerful processor, 512 GB of storage, a larger 1080p display with a fast refresh rate, plus it natively runs Windows 11.

Prices taken at time of publishing.

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Warner Brothers Studios is turning 100 this year, and to celebrate, the folks at Humble are bringing us another killer bundle featuring some of the best titles from the WB Games library. The “Play the Legends” bundle lets you scoop up 12 awesome games for just $15 (redeemable on Steam), all while benefitting a nonprofit organization.

The highlights from this bundle include the definitive editions of Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor and Middle-earth: Shadow of War, in addition to the entirety of the Batman Arkham beat-em-up series, and more. While some of the included titles are more than a few years old at this point, this makes them perfect candidates for handheld PCs like the ROG Ally and the Steam Deck, thanks to their lower hardware requirements. In fact, many of included games, like Batman: Arkham Knight and Middle-earth: Shadow of War are Steam Deck verified.

Prices taken at time of publishing.

Even after the introduction of the more affordable Xbox Elite Series 2 Core controller, I’d still consider the original Elite Series 2 controller the gold standard gamepad for Xbox and PCs. Normally $179.99, you can currently pick up this controller at Walmart or the Microsoft Store for around $123, just a few dollars more than the current price of the Core controller that includes far fewer components.

The Core controller and its slightly more expensive counterpart