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They’re years behind and they have a half baked idea. Of course they’re going to come out with one!
They also have piles of metrics saying it’s going to become the dominant in the market, that it’s way better than the competitors, and that the Xbox interface will be loved by all.
And then it’ll come out, be mediocre at best, and silently dropped in 3 years.
If it has an Xbox-style, controller-first interface, and its cost is subsidized by future game sales, that would be interesting. But at this point the Xbox division seems like they’re just phoning it in these days.
Worried this will just be another expensive, “us too!” handheld PC with poor battery life.
Xbox handheld made sense before when we had proper handhelds.
Nowadays… Not so much, I struggle to think how anybody would not think that this is just another Steam Deck/ROG Ally or whatever other PC gaming handheld in the market.
It would be. The trick is that this initiative is coupled with a better UI for Windows on handhelds, like Valve made for SteamOS. If not this partnered one, then the official one will.
It would be lovely to let Microsoft subsidize and just put Linux on it as a big fuck you while letting Valve save some money on the R&D required to build a Steam Deck 2
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They’re years behind and they have a half baked idea. Of course they’re going to come out with one!
They also have piles of metrics saying it’s going to become the dominant in the market, that it’s way better than the competitors, and that the Xbox interface will be loved by all.
And then it’ll come out, be mediocre at best, and silently dropped in 3 years.
It’s Microsoft. I’ve seen this one before
If it has an Xbox-style, controller-first interface, and its cost is subsidized by future game sales, that would be interesting. But at this point the Xbox division seems like they’re just phoning it in these days.
Worried this will just be another expensive, “us too!” handheld PC with poor battery life.
Xbox handheld made sense before when we had proper handhelds.
Nowadays… Not so much, I struggle to think how anybody would not think that this is just another Steam Deck/ROG Ally or whatever other PC gaming handheld in the market.
It would be. The trick is that this initiative is coupled with a better UI for Windows on handhelds, like Valve made for SteamOS. If not this partnered one, then the official one will.
I would welcome a price-subsidized SteamDeck hack kit…
It would be lovely to let Microsoft subsidize and just put Linux on it as a big fuck you while letting Valve save some money on the R&D required to build a Steam Deck 2
I doubt. They might make a handheld but I’d imagine it will just run windows and have the same shape as an rog ally