Phil Spencer has all but said it: there’ll be an Xbox handheld console
Xbox’s lead man and Microsoft Gaming CEO, Phil Spencer, has been dropping hints for months about a possible Xbox portable console. Earlier this year, he said he was “a big fan of portable consoles” after liking tweets that mentioned the possibility of this new hardware.
Now, in an interview with IGN, the head of Xbox has made it crystal clear: “I think we should also have a portable console.” This can only mean one thing: Xbox is going to release, sooner rather than later, a console that competes with the Nintendo Switch and the Steam Deck.
It’s the biggest clue so far that Microsoft is working on a portable Xbox console, something that’s been rumored for a while.
“I am very excited about the work the team is doing around different form factors and different ways of playing,” Spencer said. “Today we talked about games… but we will have time to go out and talk more about the platform.”
Streaming console or local gaming? Phil Spencer knows
Pressed on whether a portable Xbox console would stream games or play them locally, Spencer dropped a new hint that Microsoft is looking for a true portable gaming device instead of something like the PlayStation Portal. “I like my ROG Ally, my Lenovo Legion Go, my Steam Deck. I think being able to play locally is very important,” Spencer said.
Earlier this year, Spencer talked about wanting Xbox to have a compact mode on a portable gaming PC. “I want to be able to launch the Xbox app in full screen, but in a compact mode,” Spencer said in an interview with Polygon.
We suspect that Microsoft is working on a portable Xbox console based on Windows, but with the ability to run Xbox games and the full Xbox interface.
In order to do this, Microsoft would need to successfully merge Xbox and Windows in a way never seen before, but now that the future of Xbox looks a lot like PC, it seems more inevitable than ever.
Author: Chema Carvajal Sarabia
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