A tech leaker has claimed that Microsoft is currently developing a "portable machine" that will soon be announced to the world. An Xbox portable console or Xbox Series handheld device could take the market by storm and provide direct competition to the Nintendo Switch Lite. Just don't expect it to be called the Xboy though.
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Xbox-portable-console-could-be-in-the-works-to-take-on-the-might-of-the-Nintendo-Switch-Lite.526861.0.html
If this were Sony, I would believe this leak and actually look forward to it.
But it's Microsoft we are talking about: the black sheep of the video game industry, the same company that killed all their Mobile division instead of moving onto Android to get some money (and not lost all that R&D), the same company who says software comes first, hardware second.
So, I doubt it. And if its real, with the hardware quality Surface products have, I really doubt they can compete with Switch.
Just make a decent attachable controller for smartphones and start certifying devices with Wifi 6E as "capable of an Xbox Cloud Experience". Then as long as you have fiber and Wifi 6E, your game streaming experience might actually not suck donkey balls. Provided they optimize for latency in their servers.
But yes, Microsoft should really leave hardware design for others. They're bad at it. They're like the polar opposite of Google.
Quote from: kek on March 09, 2021, 02:12:11
If this were Sony, I would believe this leak and actually look forward to it.
But it's Microsoft we are talking about: the black sheep of the video game industry, the same company that killed all their Mobile division instead of moving onto Android to get some money (and not lost all that R&D), the same company who says software comes first, hardware second.
So, I doubt it. And if its real, with the hardware quality Surface products have, I really doubt they can compete with Switch.
Oh yeah Sony, a company that would kill Ericsson brand and realized PS Vita isn't worth an investment, and they think that all of their mobile phone user are professional. How ironic
I mean it says it right there, FAN MADE, The fact you even posted this is stupid
Aya Neo, Alienware UFO and other portable gaming PC are pretty much Xbox Handhelds already.
* Xbox has Virtual Machine, XPA and xCloud under its belly.