The ROG Ally is available to buy from today. Good news if the Steam Deck never showed up in your area-

Today marks when the first batch of ROG Ally handhelds are shipped off to customers. If you’ve already pre-ordered, that means the end of a month-long wait since you lay your money on the line, but for everyone else it means a chance to actually buy one of these snappy AMD-powered handheld PCs off the shelves.

In most regions I’ve checked, you can just buy one of these consoles right away—there’s been no immediate rush to snap up as many of these as possible for the second-hand market, incredibly. Below you’ll find some retailer links that might come in useful.

Right off the bat, there’s wide global availability of the ROG Ally, which makes for stark comparison to Valve’s Steam Deck, which my Australian colleague Chris Szewczyk has been quick to remind me is still not officially sold by Valve in the country (though you can buy a Steam Deck in Australia through other means).

It’s no surprise, then, that the handheld’s first wave has sold out in Australia via A…