Why don’t tech reviewers every talk about gamescope? Gaming on PCs has always been finicky because PCs have to serve so many use cases at once and games often have to compete for resources. Gamescope completely circumvents all of this overhead by being solely meant for the purpose of gaming. It’s the closest you can get to a “PC Console”. Third parties can never make something like gamescope for Windows, Microsoft themselves would have to ship it and maintain it.

Friend’s ROG fried its SD card reader. They have some serious heat dissipation issues. The other Windows-running units he’s tried have had myriad flaws: defective keyboards, poor sound, buggy performance, etc. They seem rushed. Most have sent replacement parts at least without a hassle…