Submitted 5 weeks ago by ampersandrew@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
https://insider-gaming.com/xbox-handheld-confirmed-phil-spencer/
What Microsoft has been saying about Xbox lately strongly implies that this is a Windows handheld designed to solve software and user experience problems with using current Windows handhelds. And signs are pointing toward the next Xbox console coming sooner than the next PlayStation and essentially being a PC running a console version of Windows. Some speculation on my part, but I’m not the only one coming to those conclusions.
20 minute battery life incoming
Also it’ll be running windows, so it’ll be rife with vulnerabilities and need constant security fixes.
Also it’ll be running windows
Xbox’s Windows is not the same as PC Windows.
Force people to use the MS store to complete the laughing stock
Maybe they should focus on it quicker. Surely it cannot be that difficult to build a handheld based on how quickly Steam Deck competition hit the market within, what, a year of the Steam Deck release?
(I’m lazy and did not read the article, only the headline.)
That few years is going toward making Windows less of a hindrance on handhelds and likely not so much into the hardware itself.
It’ll [attempt] to make Windows less of a hinderance on THEIR handheld. If all these other Windows-based devices are now rivals, why let them benefit from hard work when you can force them out?
If they released one NOW they’d probably be shooting themselves in the foot. At best they’d get mid-generational performance improvements whereas likely in the next year or two Valve is probably going to drop a true SteamDeck 2 with significant improvements. All speculation at this point, but if you’re a bean counter at Microsoft, speculation is like 90% of your job. Unless they abandon the standard console release cycle and shoot for faster iteration, they’ll want to come out absolutely swinging to compete.
Not really. PS6 parts have already been selected and the chipset entered production in 2022.
With any luck they actually want to bring true innovations to either Windows or Xbox. Getting support for gyros, accelerometers, back buttons or touchpads into Xinput would even benefit gaming on Linux since most games seem to default to that as a lowest common denominator.
I would prefer if gyros and accelerometers die off in controllers for gaming. Tilting and shaking the controller is not something I have ever enjoyed, except when the controller is a light gun for a game like Time Crisis or Silent Hill The Arcade.
So, Microsoft – how’s Windows for ARM coming?
So, Microsoft – how’s Windows for ARM coming?
Phil Spencer doesn’t even know his employer makes ARM computers. Not even Microsoft Solitaire Collection has a native ARM port.
It technically does, but you won’t be able to run the Windows Phone 8 app on modern Windows ARM.
All the Solitaire team cares about is enshittification. Competent ports are the last thing on their minds
Knee jerk reaction based on OEM feedback for a built in handheld interface for the OEM handhelds like the rog ally. Steam deck clearly caused a disruption in the market that Microsoft simply cannot stop. It’ll probably have alps joysticks that drift, they’ll slap an over powered AMD apu in it with a shot battery that it’ll chew through in an hour like every other handheld PC. Valve hit the sweet spot with the deck, and there’s no real reason to upgrade it, sure you have more powerful apu’s but battery tech hasn’t caught up yet and the only way to counteract it is slap a bigger battery on the device. At that point what’s the point of putting a power hungry apu in a handheld?
Cannot wait to not purchase it.
Would there even be a demand for a dedicated handheld console? PC has “issues” because of the set up, while console is easy because its already built.
The steam deck is already built, + it has desktop mode + more games than xbox and playstation combined?
I’m all likelihood, this would be a handheld PC that solves the problems that Windows has in that space.
Games include Halo 1, Halo 2 and Halo 3. Enjoy the thrill of purchasing them all over again!
That’s Nintendo’s MO, not Microsoft’s.
Every xbox has a version of Halo on it, why do you think this one would be different?
Yeah right
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 5 weeks ago
Microsoft following the same pattern.
passepartout@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
You forgot
A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
While true, I don’t see Valve selling out to Microsoft.
ms_lane@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
That doesn’t really happen though what happens is-
MS buys one of the biggest older players, then changes whatever direction they were going in, to their ‘new hotness’
MS kills the company they bought after being way too late to market, and everyone has already chosen the cool product
dan1101@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Too expensive and too late mostly.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 5 weeks ago
The surface is one of my go-to examples of Microsoft’s ineptitude. The surface is honestly an amazing tablet. It works very well, great battery life, and you can either use a standard tablet mode or it as a full Windows machine. For businesses too it was a slam-dunk, where since it’s Windows it already interfaces with most IT systems out of the box, no special setup or store integrations or Apple stuff, it’d work with Microsoft AD. Unfortunately it followed the pattern.