Best Buy was listing open-box units of the ROG Xbox Ally X handheld down to $849.99 shipped on Friday, according to reporting from 9to5Toys. The cut knocks $150 off the device's standard $1,000 retail sticker and marks the lowest recorded figure tracked for the flagship portable.
Discounts on the co-branded Xbox hardware have stayed rare following broader storage price jumps. Buyers willing to take pre-owned gear in different cosmetic tiers had extra options when 9to5Toys spotted the inventory on Friday afternoon. An open-box unit in "Fair" condition was listed at $761.99 shipped, while the standard Xbox ROG Ally dropped to $497.99 shipped in "Excellent" trim.
Best Buy labels its "Excellent" inventory as products that look and operate like new gear. The retailer includes all original accessories and packaging, complete with owner manuals and registration materials.
Hardware Tiers and Specs
The gap between the two portable configurations comes down to computing headroom, memory and endurance. The pricier Ally X runs on AMD's Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme silicon, backed by 24GB of LPDDR5X memory clocked at 8000 MHz and a 1TB solid-state drive. An 80Wh battery supplies the juice, meant to power prolonged portable runs on demanding releases.
By contrast, the cheaper base Xbox Ally carries the non-extreme AMD Ryzen Z2 processor, 16GB of RAM and a 512GB internal SSD.
Other core hardware components match across both machines. Each unit carries a 7-inch full-HD IPS touchscreen with a 120Hz refresh rate and up to 500 nits of brightness. Display support includes AMD FreeSync Premium to prevent visual tearing. Built-in storage expansion comes through a microSD card slot on both frames, letting owners dump extra titles onto flash cards when internal drives fill up.
Microsoft partnered on the device design, outfitting the shell with Xbox-style grips, impulse triggers and reworked tactile feedback. Because the handheld runs on Windows, software access extends past the Xbox Game Pass ecosystem to native PC launchers like Steam and Epic Games Store without requiring streaming workarounds.
Inventory for open-box stock at Best Buy depends on regional store returns and online warehouse availability, with listed quantities shifting as individual units clear out.
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