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[Topher]

Not going to transcribe the entire interaction,but here are the main points made by Phil Spencer....

Ryan: "It's been rumored, it's been talked about. We talked about it on the preshow, there was a big reaction from the audience here and that is an Xbox handheld?"

Spencer: "I think we should have a handheld"

Spencer: "The future for us in hardware in pretty awesome and the work that the team is doing around different form factors, different ways to play....I'm incredibly excited about it. Today was about the games. We showed some of our gen 9 consoles, Series S, Series X, the work that we are doing, but we will have a time to come out talk more about platform. We can't wait to bring it to you guys"

Ryan asked if a "hypothetical" Xbox handheld would be something like a Steam Deck or cloud based.

"I think being able to play games locally is really important"


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[VAVA Mk2]

Question now is if we hear before end of year. My money is at Game Awards in December.

 

[Punished Miku]

Cant wait. He said just enough to keep me patient until they're ready.

Handheld, console, forward compatibility.

 

[THE DUCK]

Yes, those are the answers we wanted!

 

[ArtHands]

Man, can’t believe we’re witnessing the renaissance period of handheld gaming. Nintendo, Microsoft, Valve and various 3rd party PC manufacturers.

Except Sony of course after the Vita bomb.

 

[feynoob]

Dude you have gamepass. Handheld with gamepass would be a legit a good system.

 

[clarky]

Dude you have gamepass. Handheld with gamepass would be a legit a good system.

Yup said this in the other thread. Its the only hardware from them id be interested in.

Gamepass, my Xbox BC library, Steam all in one?

Sign me up scotty.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

Even phill knows streaming is a far off distant dream.

 

[mayham2199]

Man, can’t believe we’re witnessing the renaissance period of handheld gaming. Nintendo, Microsoft, Valve and various 3rd party PC manufacturers.

Except Sony of course after the Vita bomb.

Isnt it rumored Sony is also working on one?

 

[Geometric-Crusher]

basically they will try to take over the prebuild PC market and handheld

The question is will it work? I mean steamdeck only sells 1 million units annually. I think certain things only work with Nintendo.

 

[FoxMcChief]

Dude you have gamepass. Handheld with gamepass would be a legit a good system.

It’s a match made in heaven. It’s too good of a thing, that’s how we know MS won’t do it.

 

[clarky]

It’s a match made in heaven. It’s too good of a thing, that’s how we know MS won’t do it.

Eh?

He basically confirmed it on stream, handheld, local play not streaming, announcement coming via Sarah Bond at some point.

 

[Magic Carpet]

Handheld Gaming Operating System.
PC PC PC just small and you know, handheld.

 

[FoxMcChief]

Eh?

He basically confirmed it on stream, handheld, local play not streaming, announcement coming via Sarah Bond at some point.

It ain’t a thing until it’s in my fat hands.

 

[Hip Hop]

Man, can’t believe we’re witnessing the renaissance period of handheld gaming. Nintendo, Microsoft, Valve and various 3rd party PC manufacturers.

Except Sony of course after the Vita bomb.

That is one of my favorite video game hardware of all time, the Vita.

Sucks the life of it was so short lived, it should have thrived all the way up until the Switch was released.

 

[Killjoy-NL]

I think it's the best way forward.

Releasing another dedicated console makes no sense, given that he finally flatout stated that they are moving toward 3rd party publishing.
Unless they'll be happy with 20-25M units solds.

 

[Magic Carpet]

Current minimum PC hardware requirements for Game Pass

• OS: Windows 10 or Windows 11
• Processor: Intel Core 5 quad core or higher, or AMD Ryzen 5 quad core or higher
• GPU: NVIDIA GTX 1050 or AMD Radeon RX 560
• Memory: 8 GB RAM, 3 GB VRAM
• Storage: 150 GB
• DirectX: DirectX 12 API
• Monitor: 1080p

Can this be made handheld? Has it already been made handheld?

 

[Setsuna Mudou]

Current minimum PC hardware requirements for Game Pass

• OS: Windows 10 or Windows 11
• Processor: Intel Core 5 quad core or higher, or AMD Ryzen 5 quad core or higher
• GPU: NVIDIA GTX 1050 or AMD Radeon RX 560
• Memory: 8 GB RAM, 3 GB VRAM
• Storage: 150 GB
• DirectX: DirectX 12 API
• Monitor: 1080p

Can this be made handheld? Has it already been made handheld?

There are plenty of handhelds running windows these days. I have one myself here. The more offers the better, just could do with newer apus

 

[Cert.in.Death]

The race is on to beat Switch 2 to market

Good luck

 

[Pasta la Vista]

It's the right move for them, I hope it happens.

 

[nial]

Man, can’t believe we’re witnessing the renaissance period of handheld gaming. Nintendo, Microsoft, Valve and various 3rd party PC manufacturers.

Except Sony of course after the Vita bomb.

Only one of those is not a handheld PC.

 

[Lucifers Beard]

Access to all my Xbox games on a handheld would be a tempting device for sure. It would need to have the same kind of horse power as a Series S though I think. Not sure what they could do, if the specs even exist.

 

[Big Baller]

Surfbox confirmed

 

[DenchDeckard]

 

[Bojanglez]

Always have to look at what he doesn't say as much as he does. Interesting he switches from talking about 9th gen console to simply the term 'platform'.

 

[DenchDeckard]

I hope they get this out by 2026. Series s power with 16gb memory minimum and the ability to install steam as well as my game pass sub.

Absolute fire.

 

[DAHGAMING]

As an Xbox warlord im so excited and buzzing for my beloved Xbox brand, amazing showcase and news like this, we are being blessed and the only Microsoft handheld we deserve is Phil Spencers cock .

 

[MrTired]

Man, can’t believe we’re witnessing the renaissance period of handheld gaming. Nintendo, Microsoft, Valve and various 3rd party PC manufacturers.

Except Sony of course after the Vita bomb.

A yet only Nintendo has sold more handhelds than the bomb that was the Vita. The "success" of these PC handheld are greatly overstated.

 

[onnextflix5]

Well it’s not going sell if it’s just another steam deck, needs something different in both hardware and software, as Nintendo are experts at this, Needs some kind of gimmick to sell it, I would personally bring back glasses free 3d,

 

[midnightAI]

Man, can’t believe we’re witnessing the renaissance period of handheld gaming. Nintendo, Microsoft, Valve and various 3rd party PC manufacturers.

Except Sony of course after the Vita bomb.

I'd keep quiet about that if I was you because if an Xbox handheld sells less then you will be quoted

 

[gaming_again]

Well it’s not going sell if it’s just another steam deck, needs something different in both hardware and software, as Nintendo are experts at this, Needs some kind of gimmick to sell it, I would personally bring back glasses free 3d,

I want a steam deck but the cost and form factor don't suit me. I wonder how many there are in my position?

 

[joshwaan]

Local play is the way

 

[midnightAI]

Local play is the way

I'd actually say local play and streaming is the way. It's certainly very future proof then (and you can get very high end looking games not restricted by internal hardware)

 

[Hrk69]

 

[N1tr0sOx1d3]

Even phill knows streaming is a far off distant dream.

How so? In what capacity?
PlayStation remote play work bloody fantastic but GeForce Now is well beyond that even.

 

[KungFucius]

The race is on to beat Switch 2 to market

Good luck

I don't get this. Will this play Nintendo games? Will parents buy for their kids so they can also play Mario? They are not competing for the same customers.

 

[VAVA Mk2]

As an Xbox warlord im so excited and buzzing for my beloved Xbox brand, amazing showcase and news like this, we are being blessed and the only Microsoft handheld we deserve is Phil Spencers cock .

LOL this troll account is hilarious

 

[Skifi28]

It'd be pretty funny if there is no handheld in the works and he just goes along with it in interviews.

 

[Chukhopops]

I don’t see a branded Xbox handheld running games locally as it would be a nightmare making all games run on it, plus it would come really late in the generation and wouldn’t be future-proofed. Way more likely to be some local streaming from PC or Xbox, on Deck it works flawlessly and looks significantly better than running locally.

My dream is better support of GP on Linux so I can play the GP indie catalog on my Steam Deck instead of having to rebuy everything I want to play on the Deck…

 

[West Texas CEO]

I'd rather have a Zune revival.

 

[bigdad2007]

Microsoft is almost as bad as Google for abandoning anything that isn’t their main line Xbox platform (which is on life support itself).

You are a fool if you buy an Xbox handheld and actually expect anything other than massive disappointment and for them to dump it about a year after launch.

 

[Bry0]

I don’t see a branded Xbox handheld running games locally as it would be a nightmare making all games run on it, plus it would come really late in the generation and wouldn’t be future-proofed. Way more likely to be some local streaming from PC or Xbox, on Deck it works flawlessly and looks significantly better than running locally.

My dream is better support of GP on Linux so I can play the GP indie catalog on my Steam Deck instead of having to rebuy everything I want to play on the Deck…

It’s not going to be based solely around cloud or streaming. The quote from Phil is in the OP

“I think being able to play games locally is very important”

 

[drganon]

A yet only Nintendo has sold more handhelds than the bomb that was the Vita. The "success" of these PC handheld are greatly overstated.

Sharthands never gives up an opportunity to troll.

 

[ArtHands]

A yet only Nintendo has sold more handhelds than the bomb that was the Vita. The "success" of these PC handheld are greatly overstated.

I didn’t see PC handhelds dead here right now.

 

[IFireflyl]

Why people are acting like Phil explicitly stated something is beyond me. Phil Spencer is a master at talking out of his ass. Will there be a handheld? We don't know for certain based on this, because he didn't actually address that. If there is a handheld, will it be cloud or local? We don't know because he didn't actually address that. Microsoft could release a handheld that is entirely cloud-based, and he would just turn around and say, "I think it's important to play games locally, but I never said that this handheld would deliver that."

This is the same Phil Spencer who said it wouldn't make sense for them to make Bethesda games exclusive, and then he turned around and immediately canceled PS5 ports for Bethesda games that were already in development.

I am not saying that there won't be a handheld. I am not saying that if there is a handheld that it will be cloud-based. I am saying that until someone from Microsoft specifically states that there will be an Xbox handheld, and that it will not be cloud-based, people shouldn't be taking this interview as some sort of gospel. Phil Spencer, and every other higher-up in virtually every company, sucks ass. They will say whatever they can to keep the hype-train up for their company's sake, and for the sake of their own paychecks (including bonuses). They are corporate politicians, and nobody should have faith in these people.

 

[Chukhopops]

It’s not going to be based solely around cloud or streaming. The quote from Phil is in the OP

“I think being able to play games locally is very important”

I missed that, don’t know how they can make it work. Seems very risky to launch a model with such a power gap at the tail end of a generation.

 

[Punished Miku]

Why people are acting like Phil explicitly stated something is beyond me. Phil Spencer is a master at talking out of his ass. Will there be a handheld? We don't know for certain based on this, because he didn't actually address that. If there is a handheld, will it be cloud or local? We don't know because he didn't actually address that. Microsoft could release a handheld that is entirely cloud-based, and he would just turn around and say, "I think it's important to play games locally, but I never said that this handheld would deliver that."

This is the same Phil Spencer who said it wouldn't make sense for them to make Bethesda games exclusive, and then he turned around and immediately canceled PS5 ports for Bethesda games that were already in development.

I am not saying that there won't be a handheld. I am not saying that if there is a handheld that it will be cloud-based. I am saying that until someone from Microsoft specifically states that there will be an Xbox handheld, and that it will not be cloud-based, people shouldn't be taking this interview as some sort of gospel. Phil Spencer, and every other higher-up in virtually every company, sucks ass. They will say whatever they can to keep the hype-train up for their company's sake, and for the sake of their own paychecks (including bonuses). They are corporate politicians, and nobody should have faith in these people.

He's literally been saying it repeatedly for a while. This is incredibly transparent.

A handheld Xbox? Microsoft’s gaming chief can’t stop thinking about it

What game would you play first on a portable Xbox?

www.polygon.com

He basically confirmed it again yesterday.

 

[diffusionx]

Lol, apparently 2026 is the new year of Xbox? Handheld secret sauce?

 

[IFireflyl]

He's literally been saying it repeatedly for a while. This is incredibly transparent.

A handheld Xbox? Microsoft’s gaming chief can’t stop thinking about it

What game would you play first on a portable Xbox?

www.polygon.com

He basically confirmed it again yesterday.

I like you man, but please read my posts before you respond to me. He has not specifically stated that they are making a handheld Xbox device. He also has not specifically stated that the [unconfirmed] handheld Xbox device will support local play. That is my point. Nothing should be treated as fact until it is specifically stated.

 

[SNG32]

If this is locked in to the Xbox ecosystem and no access to steam this is a no for me.