Comment on Microsoft and Asus announce two Xbox Ally handhelds with new Xbox full-screen experience

ampersarnie@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• PacMan@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I still think the real XBox handheld is another 2-5 years out. This is Microsoft dipping their toes in the water and the ROC is a great system to start that partnership

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  • GreyCat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    They seem to have dropped all plans to plans to make their own recently.
    The ROG Xbox Ally will still release, but no microsoft Xbox handheld.

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  • ampersarnie@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Steam Deck appreciator myself and this does seem like a good starting point for Xbox. I’m interested to see how it progresses over the years.

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    • HuskerNation@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Not saying I’d get one, but I am a Xbox gamer. It’s where the majority of my purchases are. I hardly play PC because I just don’t like sitting at a desk, when I’m in a desk chair most of the day. I maybe have 3-4 games on steam, but my PC is getting old just found out even though my graphics card can do ray tracing, my processor is only 2.9ghx and recommended min is 3.2 and can’t run the new doom game.

      So if you were to get one would you stay with the steam deck or wait for the Asus?

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      • SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Looking at your use case, I would go with Asus. You would already have a decent library because of some Xbox Play Anywhere titles, plus there is also gamepass.

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      • AmosBurton_ThatGuy@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I get your point but the speed of the CPU means nothing without mentioning the specific model. My old i7-4790k came stock at 4.4GHz and would massively struggle to run modern games, but if I underclocked my current 7600x to 3.2GHz it would easily handle the latest games at 60 FPS.

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• lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yep.

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• Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Only it doesn’t run Xbox games. 🤡

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  • Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    To Microsoft, everything is an Xbox.

    At least that’s their marketing atm.

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    • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’d say it’ll backfire when people can’t play those odd Xbox games that for some reason never came to PC, but there’s so few people using Xboxes anyway, I doubt it’s going to matter. They’ve well and truly dropped the ball since the Xbox 360, and don’t really show any signs of being interested in picking it up again.

      Everything just points to them making enough money from everything else to not really care. This is as token an effort as it’s possible to make in the handheld space.

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• Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I believe somewhere else that idea/project was taken back to the workshop and this is something else but close to that.

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  • Zykino@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yeah, I also read that they stopped the project of building an official Xbox handheld to focus on 3rd party hardware. Because otherwise the delay would make them not launch at the same time than the home console.

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  • ampersarnie@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I read that somewhere as well, it coincided with reports of SteamOS being more performant that Windows 11 for gaming. How related they both were I have no idea but it sounds like MS were already aware and are trying to resolve that here as it prevents resource intensive processes from launching (desktop, etc).

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