The SD card reader isn’t a must-have for the ROG Ally. You can fit a decent number of games in its internal storage, and it has one of the easiest handheld SSDs to replace with a larger one.

The Asus ROG Ally is the company's entry into the portable gaming device market, going up against Valve's Steam Deck and Logitech's G-Cloud.But owners of Asus' device are complaining about issues ...

Anyone experiencing the microSD card reader problem in the ROG Ally should contact cl-adrian@asus.com if they're in the US or their local Asus customer service if they're outside of the States.

ASUS has shipped a new update to the ROG Ally boosting fan performance while gaming on Turbo mode. The update also fixes the issue where the entry remains stuck on the boot-up loading screen.

Two weeks after launch, Asus is saying that you shouldn’t see the performance gap we saw with the ROG Ally gaming handheld — and you should reach out re: SD card failures.

Another user, BackwaterHero, says they managed to get their card back up-and-running with a USB reader: "Update, formatted and renamed to exfat on the ally using a sd card reader via USB.

Now, ASUS has acknowledged the issue, and it's exactly what users feared: a hardware problem. However, the issue doesn't lie with the ROG Ally's SD card reader, exactly, but rather with its ...

ASUS ROG Ally SD Card Issues Confirmed. Asus ROG Ally brings a significant development to handheld gaming, but is currently experiencing issues with its heating and SD card. Asus.

The ROG Ally is lighter and more compact than the Steam Deck, but it has a more powerful AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme CPU, which can use up to 30W of power. The Steam Deck's Zen 2 APU tops out at 15W.

ASUS has today confirmed that the MicroSD card reader on its ROG Ally handheld console is at risk of failure under stressful thermal conditions.. ROG Ally SD Card Reader Failures. As reported by ...

Asus has just confirmed what many have already reported -- the ROG Ally handheld may struggle with thermals. Fortunately, a fix is on the way.