Microsoft is engaged on an Xbox handheld
In a latest interview with Bloomberg, Phil Spencer confirmed that Microsoft is engaged on a handheld Xbox system, though it is nonetheless within the prototyping section. Spencer mentioned that he’s conscious that the “expectation is that we might do one thing,” however the launch of a devoted handheld remains to be just a few years away.
Within the meantime, Spencer says that Xbox’s engineers can be working to enhance the official Xbox app on different {hardware}, in addition to accomplice with extra third-party {hardware} corporations to sync the Xbox expertise with their gadgets. “Long term, I like us constructing gadgets,” Spencer mentioned. “And I believe our crew may do some actual revolutionary work, however we need to be told by studying and what’s occurring now.”
Apparently, a report from Home windows Central earlier this yr advised that an Xbox handheld was in growth alongside the subsequent era of consoles — which Xbox president Sarah Bond says will provide “the most important technical leap you should have ever seen in a {hardware} era.” It is probably that we’ll see an official Xbox handheld roll out alongside the subsequent console era.
In the identical interview with Bloomberg, Spencer additionally mentioned there are “no pink traces” on the subject of launching Xbox exclusives on PlayStation.
