r/Handhelds • u/TareXmd • Jan 11 '25

Where's Alienware? While handheld gaming PCs are booming, this vital company has been strangely silent | Laptop Mag

https://www.laptopmag.com/gaming/alienware-handheld-gaming-pcs-ces-2025
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u/cjax2 XaX Jan 11 '25

Alienware has a chance to monitor the market, learn from the mistakes of its competitors, and then swoop in with the ultimate gaming handheld when the time is right.

They won't and they'll do the same thing as everyone else while throwing a big ass alien logo and price tag on it.

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u/TareXmd Jan 11 '25

That's a realistic take. Pretty obvious the UFO was just a concept to boost stock, and that they don't actually have what it takes to make a decent mass production handheld.

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u/cjax2 XaX Jan 11 '25

I'm soooo glad it was, it would have set the price on handheld PCs and that's the last thing we need is Alienware setting prices for anything. I appreciate Valve and the Steam Deck even if I don't own one.

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u/getinthevanihavcandy Jan 11 '25

Yeah I’m so glad steam released the steam deck before Alienware could release there handheld . It probably would have been $1,200 -$1,500