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Not an official announcement, but it's probably safe to assume an Xbox handheld is in development.

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[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They could, but they won’t.

They could also release a handheld gaming PC that runs Windows under their Surface brand, if they wanted to go that route.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 months ago

That's something that could have even saved them money on R&D for the Xbox itself, but there's no way in hell they would allow you to use your gaming console as a desktop.

It is fascinating how they are willing to waste a shitload of money just to lock users into an ecosystem. Imagine how easy it would be to just run Windows on the Xbox and allow to boot into desktop or game mode as needed. That would have been a huge selling point against Playstation, but "make life better for your users" will never be part of MS's philosophy.