Phil Spencer Confirms Xbox is Planning an Xbox Handheld, But It’s a Few Years Away

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

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I truly believe an Xbox handheld will be great for the community at large. It will have the same positive effects that the Series S had, it will bring it players who maybe haven't decided to get a console and prefer mobile devices.

I personally believe if they manage to incorporate the Xbox OS into the handheld allowing seamless progression between the consoles and the dedicated handheld it will be a massive hit. The ASUS ROG Ally is kinda like that via the Xbox app but it's not good enough, we need a seamless "console like" experience where we can pick it up and just play.

I believe waiting a couple of years is the right thing to do. This will allow processors like the Snapdragon X series, the Intel core ultra 200v series (Lunar Lake) and the AMD Strix Point APU's (Ryzen AI 300) to mature giving us incredible performance with excellent battery efficiency. All 3 of these show promise for high performance with more battery life than ever before.

The AMD Strix Point APU's have some of the best integrated graphics of all time. These integrated graphics are capable of outperforming dedicated graphics cards. The APU's with only 12 RDNA 3.5 compute units are expected to outperform the Radeon RX 6400 dedicated GPU, the mid range APU with 16 RDNA 3.5 compute units is said to outperform the RTX 3050 & the high end Strix Halo variant with 40 RDNA 3.5 compute units is said to outperform the Radeon RX 7600. This is incredible performance for an APU (accelerated processing unit that combined the CPU and GPU on the same die).

The reason I mentioned these APU's is because the Xbox handheld will surely use one of those APU's in their console. I truly believe we will get a handheld that's fully capable of running our entire Xbox library up to that point. The thought of owning a handheld where I can play my digital library of OG Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S games has me so hyped.

If anyone can pull it off it would be Microsoft. We have handhelds now that can run full scale AAA games and those devices are only getting better so by the time we get an Xbox handheld I believe it'll be something truly worth owning! I'm on board 💯 percent!

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