Nothing can stop the claw! Except for everything else that's out 😂

the pc handheld market right now really reminds me of how vr headsets were a couple of years back. Every company thought they could capture the market with gimmicks while the public just wants something with as few compromises as possible. The claw is sadly more or less another gimmick.

I don't compare MSI Claw day one to the ROG Ally Day 1 because the claw had nine months to make improvements to build on top of what the ROG Ally has already done.

I've been looking forward to this video Joey!

Well thank you for this, I hear loud and clear what you are saying. "Do not get this device if you want any kind of manufacturer support"

Nice male Pikachu shirt Joey! Gotta catch em all!

I think it makes more sense to keep it and update as updates come out rather then buy it all over again.

I have the feeling that price/performance ratio will only improve because the price will drop. I am not sure the performance will be fixed , at least not in a huge way.

We got MSI here in City of Industry and I believe they are still a Taiwanese company by the name of Microstar International. They really need chinese/english speaker to push their product instead of just dump it on some foreigners.

Not for me. I unfortunately couldn’t care less for anything that isn’t the Deck or something pocket sized like a Retroid at this time. Hopefully we’ll see some improvements across the board with handhelds in the near future, but until then I’m happy with the OLED Deck. Solid coverage tho!

The Claw needs to get 2x as good (performance) to even be slightly worth it. IF (big if) the Claw has 100% more potential that means that MSI released a prototype and charged more than the competition.

Balatro is about what it can do , it runs it smoothly at 45 fps with 40 watts.😊

Eh, there’s more issues that can’t be fixed with software updates. That’s a little hopeful imo. I had this handheld for a few weeks and it was absolutely a dumpster fire. The d-pad is horrible, mine even started squeaking. It’s too hard to press. The shoulder buttons are really hard to press at many angles too. There’s also many issues with games just not even launching. The 1% lows are horrible on most aaa titles so anyone showing fps numbers and being positive about it should be ware. Anyone being positive about this beware also. Msi dropped the ball on this and doesn’t seem they did any market research from real tech channels who focus on handhelds. Holding the claw in your hand you’d think they advised fisher price on the d-pad lol. Also we got bamboozled with the backplate. It’s not vented near as much as it looks. Most of it’s blocked off. The last point is it’s very very difficult fo to change or upgrade the nvme. You have to remove the heat sink and fan and have to repaste the apu as well. That’s not good. Also my keyboard didn’t work either the first time. There’s no vram adjustment. The idle ram usage is higher than i have ever seen on any device out of the box. There’s dozens and dozens of just msi services hiding and stealing your ram. I even debloated the heck out of it and still it helped but not enough. There’s just too much going on and 799 is an insult. Oh and I tried the new intel driver and it made performance worse on fps games like cod. I had tried the new bios and every thing as well

Microsoft needs to make a windows equivalent of Steam OS or make the Xbox windows OS available to OEM manufacturers for these devices to become viable competitors to Steam Deck.

I've owned a rog ally since launch. I recently got a deck oled and the deck is by far the only handheld worth your time. If you need to be plugged in to get the perfomance and battery life then you dont have a portable pc. I don't think anyone but valve gets it. Plus as someone that has used Windows for 30 years, it does not work on a handheld. The claw is just a joke and will be on sale very soon.

The Claw is a thoroughbred race horse with concrete wellies on it.🤣

MSI Flaw. Intel just doesn't cut it anymore.

Brand new lineup of cpu gpu , the drivers and the games need update

I’m excited to see what happens with these over time but for now it’s a no go

When your 5-year-old tells you he can make a handheld. 👶

You lowkey should have judged it by your experience at CES 😅 *If the game that a company explicitly choose to show off is not running well what does that show about the product?* It makes them look clueless, because why are you showcasing a game that doesn't even run well on your device?

Actually if it wasn’t for the high price indies would be exactly what would be perfect for a device like this that and emulation AAA games are overrated cut and paste same game different skin while milking gamers like cash cows indies on the other hand are low cost fun also some of them are cheap enough that you can buy multiple games at once in different genres and they have actual innovation.

The MSI Claw is an insult to the handheld gaming market. Even if you can get it for around $400 it doesnt compare to the Ally or the Steam deck. It's been a while since ive seen a complete failure of a product to release in the last decade. If Intel and MSI want to prove me, and all other gamers, wrong then please make us eat our words.

Return it! Waste of money. Rebuy it if it gets better. The new ally should kill it. I always grab the GO for the lg screen and still enjoy the ally.

There is no chance the claw will improve over time for one reason only, the intel gpu, sorry intel has always been shit when it comes to gpu. On any gaming pc it has always been NVIDIA or ATI for video. The MSI CLAW shouldn't have been released until it was tested.

As a Q2 deck owner I disagree that it was ever this broken , even day 1 lol

Hey at least the controllers don’t detach and wobble like the legion go’s 😂 but seriously this device is 🤮

Can't even beat my Lenovo Legion slim 7i, with RTX 3060. Just get a gaming laptop if you want portability with no sacrafice to the power/performance. Forget the handhelds...

Wrong release timing, wrong performance and wrong pricing