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Must have for cloud gaming!!!!
By Seth on Reviewed in the United States on July 4, 2025
As an avid gamer, I will give my personal and professional opinion as much as possible. I have been using handheld since the first ROG Ally was released upgraded to the X. And most recently I have re-purchased this device. I own one once before, but it was simply ahead of its time a few years ago now that a lot, and most popular games are on GeForce now or some sort of streaming service, this device has been updated recently and has a brand new face and puts all of your favorite games right in front. I am thrilled to death and very pleased with the update, especially since I travel a lot for my electrical engineering and as a paramedic. I travel a lot and I’m consistently on the go which makes this device and absolute must have. Yes I do travel sometimes with my.Ally X. But there’s sometimes that it’s just simply two cumbersome to use and carry it is slightly heavier, but I would not trade it for the world. This device is much lighter and is a much more streamline process for cloud gaming, which allows me to play most of my popular titles on GeForce now as a personal preference over Xbox cloud gaming, simply due to the quality of streaming I’m able to obtain with GeForce now and this Logitech cloud. Considering both devices have to have Internet to work properly I’m using my hotspot on either device since this device has streamlined the game streaming services so much. It makes it my go to here recently during my travels. I simply leave my Ally X at home with an ethernet connection so that I can stream my steam library through Steam Link. For me, this is a must have for your avid gamer, who is consistently on the go or simply wants a more streamlined handheld for cloud gaming this device knocks it out of the park. Yes, most of you are going to say well I can just use my phone and a backbone controller or some similar mobile controller. This thing does not offer much as far as portability compared to a simple phone and a mobile controller but the mobile controller has to be carried separately anyways and to me if I get a controller, that’s similar to the same size just different weight I might as well go for a full device that was made for this. I’m not much into gaming interrupted by phone calls. And also, I have went that route and I just cannot seem to spend the money for a good full-size controller. That’s not going to cramp my hands up or simply need to be carried in a case that makes it almost the same size as this G cloud, I would very much like to see an updated G cloud be produced, but honestly for the price point and what you receive is worth every penny, considering that it’s a cloud gaming machine you do not need an external SD card unless you plan to use this as an android tablet other than that, the internal storage will be completely sufficient Again this device has lived up to full potential outside of a refresh. Good job Logitech!!
Top critical review
79 people found this helpful
Definitely not the best handheld portable, falls short on performance, parts are not the best.
By RedAkuma82 on Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2023
This device falls a bit short in terms of performance and design. The first thing I will say about this is that this has NO video output capability. It is solely a hand held gaming device. Even if you were to plug in a type c to hdmi it will not detect. There is no real way to really display it out to the television if you wanted to. The port will only allow you to charge the device or transfer data unfortunately. In terms of screen quality, I think the screen quality is not bad. It does have a bit of a glare but it is good enough to play on. It is clear, fluid, and can be set pretty bright. The case is a simple white to it. It is nice but I am worried about yellowing and it getting dirty overtime from constant use. Definitely do not leave this in direct sunlight as that will just make it yellow much quicker. The operating system it uses it pretty much android. It has a different home interface but it has all the settings of android. You are able to download from the google play store so you can play your mobile game and such. That being said, the initial setup is pretty much the same as setting up an android device. The device itself the parts do not feel the best. The joystick is pretty small. The buttons feel a bit sunk in which means you most likely will press more than one button when you are playing which is a tad annoying. Regardless, the buttons are responsive for the most part. It has home button and such as well like any hand held. The trigger buttons are okay. The L1 and R1 buttons are bit thin so it makes it harder to press. The touch screen is nice but honestly I do not really use it too much. It is nice if you were to say play a touchscreen based game but I prefer to have the joystick over that. It is responsive and on point which is nice. It does run a bit warm but not by much even on higher load. Because this is cloud based, it is not something you can really take on the go so much unless you are able to say tether off your phone. It requires something to connect to short of using emulation or google play store. If you want to play from the game pass, you will need a pretty strong connection to the internet in order to achieve the best game play. If you want to use other platforms like steam, you will need to have your pc on in order to play those games. There is no real way around that unfortunately. You cannot download the game into the device in order to play it. In terms of performance, it does have a bit of a lag when trying to play cloud based game. Sometimes it has a bit of a buffering time which causes the game to look all pixelated. It can handle the graphics but without a strong internet connection you are pretty much buffering from time to time. It does have its own built in memory of 64 gb which is enough for some games. If you are going to emulate, it will definitely fill up fast. It does have a micro SD card slot you can use to expand your memory as needed. Overall the device is not the best. It falls short on performance for being a handheld device. Yes it can handle games but requires a bunch of other things like fast internet connection, mirroring, and cloud accounts. It does not have a video out and the joystick and buttons are not the best. The parts do not work the best for someone with big hands and the buttons are a bit too close together where you could end up pressing more than one button. You pretty much need to get other things to make this device playable in my opinion.
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