First, the rumors of Sea of Thieves and Hifi Rush may be going onto different consoles, then all people went ape over the opportunity of Starfield showing on PlayStation 5 (regardless of roundly slating it when it got here out), after which the stone continued gathering moss, By the tip of yesterday Xbox staples similar to Gears of Struggle and Halo had been going to PlayStation too, Microsoft was pulling out of consoles and leaving gaming to Sony. Xbox was useless.
Simply one other day on the web.
Xbox head honcho Phil Spencer then introduced that there can be a ‘enterprise replace’ subsequent week which appeared ominous however, in all actuality, might be a response to the media storm of the final couple of days.
Someplace in the midst of this would be the fact as ever, after you have filtered out the histrionic “I’ll by no means purchase one other Microsoft product” that has washed over Reddit.
Equally now, countermeasure rumors have surfaced on an Xbox podcast that Microsoft, fairly than pulling out of the console market, truly has two new machines within the pipeline for 2026, together with a handheld Nintendo Swap (however extra doubtless Steam Deck) competitor, in addition to a brand new ‘conventional’ Xbox console.
If so then Spencer is unlikely to verify the existence on the Xbox broadcast, however will certainly double down on Xbox’s dedication to its {hardware} homeowners. To overtly state something apart from that would appear unlikely as it might hit gross sales of current Xbox inventory. It’s not going to occur.
Wanting on the console rumors although the hand held is one that would positively shake the market. The Steam Deck has been a hit story for Valve, and you’ll think about if anyone was able to placing a handheld PC collectively that would stream and play Xbox Recreation Cross video games, it might be Microsoft. The rumor continues that the Microsoft Floor crew is engaged on the hand held, which might even be dockable for giant screenplay, and this is able to make loads of sense.
The hand held rumor has been round for a number of weeks however there appears to be extra meat being added to the bones by individuals who could possibly be within the know.
The opposite console if not an Xbox Sequence refresh can be there to finish with any new Sony machine so would positively should be subsequent era.
At this level, it’s all simply noise and it’s unclear whether or not something will probably be any extra obvious by the point Spencer subsequent leaves the stage.
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