Indonesian brand Advan introduced the company's first handheld gaming PC, the X-Play. Under the hood, it packs the AMD Ryzen 7 7840U, which delivers the same level of performance as the Ryzen Z1 Extreme. But that's not the only thing similar to the ROG Ally. It even has an almost identical design to Asus's offering.
Yeah that’s the other thing. To get decent battery life you run the device at lower TDP also, which puts performance as no better than the Steam deck.
Just seems to me that some of these decisions were driven by the marketing department and not engineering sense.