Source: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Xbox-...ght-of-the-Nintendo-Switch-Lite.526861.0.html
Take this with a grain of salt since, well, we already have portable Microsoft devices. They're called ultraportable laptops.
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Take this with a grain of salt since, well, we already have portable Microsoft devices. They're called ultraportable laptops.
Somehow I doubt this is actually a thing. Probably just one of MANY prototypes Microsoft has in the works that will amount to nothing down the line.
It would be hilarious to see them try to challenge the Switch directly, though.
It would be hilarious to see them try to challenge the Switch directly, though.
Aside from a budget device based on playing games through streaming, it's hard to imagine there being any weight to this.
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Slap a phone screen in between some of the peripherals already out there with some innards that are tuned just right for a streaming device. Dashboard same as the rest of the Xbox ecosystem.
Makes sense.
Makes sense.
It'd almost certainly be streaming-focused, which immediately makes me skeptical of the overall usefulness of the device. Either it's permanently tethered to my WiFi, or I'm waiting for 5G to actually be a practical reality in the States.
Would definitely be a strong international play, though.
Would definitely be a strong international play, though.
The funniest thing about this is Xbox obviously have a great hardware team so it'd probably be a cool piece of tech before it died on the vine in about a week.
In the reality where hamburgers eat people where this would actually happen.
In the reality where hamburgers eat people where this would actually happen.
Notebookcheck is reputable in my experience (they're better than wccftech, that's for sure), but I would take this with a major grain of salt; Microsoft hasn't shown much interest in making a handheld device at any point in its history, and I doubt they're going to change that strategy anytime soon, especially since they'd either have to downclock the SoC used in the Series...series, or use a more power efficient SoC since this handheld would have to be powered via a battery and thus would have to have games developed specifically for its hardware.
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