Xbox has lastly confirmed that it’s engaged on a handheld console to rival the Nintendo Swap and Steam Deck.
Xbox has been teasing an Xbox handheld for months now. In June, boss Phil Spencer informed IGN that, “the long run for us in {hardware} is fairly superior. The work that the workforce is doing round totally different type elements, other ways to play, I’m extremely enthusiastic about.”
In a brand new interview with Blomberg, Spencer stated the “expectation is that we’d do one thing” within the handheld gaming house and confirmed that builders are presently engaged on prototypes whereas others are conducting market analysis. “Long term, I really like us constructing gadgets. And I feel our workforce may do some actual modern work, however we need to be told by studying and what’s occurring now,” he added earlier than confirming that an Xbox handheld console is “years” away.
Elsewhere within the interview, Spencer confirmed there was nothing stopping Xbox-exclusive video games being launched on rival consoles. “I don’t see kind of purple traces in our portfolio that say ‘thou should not,’” he confirmed, earlier than including it was too early to debate if the following Halo sport will probably be multi-platform. Xbox not too long ago confirmed a “new daybreak” for Halo with “a number of” video games being labored on.
Earlier this 12 months, Microsoft confirmed quite a lot of Xbox-exclusives could be made out there on “rival” consoles. Each Grounded and Pentiment had been launched for Nintendo Swap whereas Hello-Fi Rush and Sea Of Thieves launched on the PS5. Indiana Jones And The Nice Circle will launch on Xbox subsequent month however has already confirmed a PlayStation launch for subsequent 12 months.
Nintendo is resulting from launch the successor to the Swap sooner or later subsequent 12 months. There have been loads of rumours about what the brand new console will appear like and could possibly be referred to as however the one factor that’s been confirmed by Nintendo is that the Swap 2 will probably be backwards suitable.
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