I tried using a dock for my Asus ROG Ally for the first time - and it could draw me back to living room gaming

I tried using a dock for my Asus ROG Ally for the first time - and it could draw me back to living room gaming Features Sorry, Switch - I think the ROG Ally's dock might be taking over your regular space on my TV stand.(Image credit: Shutterstock, Nintendo) Honestly, the Ally is a bit bulky for lengthy gaming sessions in handheld mode - my wrists start to ache a little.(Image credit: Asus) Christian Guyton published Comfort is king Oh, my poor PS4. How lonely you must feel now, nestled untouched beneath a layer of dust under my TV stand, originally consigned to work as a glorified streaming box after I finally kicked my Destiny habit and completed my slow shift to exclusively gaming on PC. When I upgraded my ageing plasma screen to a shiny new smart TV, even that duty fell from you, leaving you to wallow in inactivity outside the rare occasion I have house guests who want to play Jackbox . I’ve all but given up on ‘living room gaming’ these days, even after a childhood spent playing on almost every home console since the Nintendo 64 and Sega Dreamcast, even after, uh... oh man, how many hours spent in Destiny 2 ? Oh dear. Let’s not talk about that. Yes, I’m a true-blue PC gamer now - while I’ve always played games on PC, it wasn’t until I started working for Maximum PC magazine back in 2018 that I built my own proper gaming PC and started to gradually phase out my time spent on my PS3 and PS4. I’m on my third custom desktop now, packing an RTX 5070 (though for anyone wondering, I’d actually recommend the far superior RTX 5070 Ti ), and with a fancy gaming desk and comfy throne courtesy of Noblechairs , I didn’t ever see myself going back to the couch for anything other than watching TV and playing party games. Going mobile... And yet, Asus might have changed my mind. I got the original ROG Ally when it first came out back in 2023, and it’s seen plenty of use in my household. Not just by me, either; my partner has been trying and failing to get into PC gaming for a while, but the Ally has streamlined that whole process for him, and now we’ve got 200+ hours in a Stardew Valley co-op save file. In fact, he probably uses the Ally even more than I do - I’ve been unceremoniously banished to my desktop more than once when we both want to play different games at the same time. But in the two years I’ve been enjoying my time with the ROG Ally, at no point did I ever think of using it as anything other than a handheld. That’s even sillier now, in retrospect, considering that I already own a Nintendo Switch and have spent plenty of time playing on it in both the handheld and docked modes. So when an Asus ROG Bulwark Dock...

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