Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer has confirmed that Xbox is planning an Xbox handheld console, but it's a few years away from release.

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.

  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
    97·
    3 days ago

    Microsoft following the same pattern.

    • There is a need in the market they are aware of, but don’t care
    • Someone else makes a huge splash by doing a great job
    • Microsoft gets butthurt that someone else is making profit
    • They take way too long coming up with a rival
    • Microsoft hires thousands of engineers to work on the product
    • The rival is way too late to market, and everyone has already chosen the cool product
    • Microsoft quietly lays people off and kills off the product
    • passepartout@feddit.orgEnglish
      40·
      3 days ago

      You forgot

      • MS buys all the competition
      • MS kills said companies they bought before so everyone has to use their half assed shit product
        • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
          30·
          2 days ago

          Fun fact, Gabe left Microsoft to found Valve. Pretty sure a few other early Valve employees were also from Microsoft.

        • PunchingWood@lemmy.worldEnglish
          12·
          3 days ago

          Never say never.

          Who knows what happens when someone else takes the helm at Valve, might not be too long either. Lots of companies see a massive shift in company policies once a new CEO takes over. Hopefully it’ll be someone that upholds the same integrity as Gabe.

          • passepartout@feddit.orgEnglish
            13·
            2 days ago

            I hope so as well, as Valve is one of the few companies left these days not consisting of shareholder imbeciles.

      • ms.lane@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 days 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