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Though Xbox shouldn’t be doing so properly within the console market this era, don’t depend out the Microsoft gaming division simply but, they nonetheless have one thing to supply.
Home windows Central’s Jez Cordon completely studies that Microsoft plans to launch the next-gen Xbox console in 2027 and an Xbox-branded handheld someday in 2025.
Based on the web site, a companion PC gaming handheld codenamed Keenan is at the moment within the works for late 2025 whereas a next-gen successor for the Xbox Collection X and S consoles is 2 years away.
IGN studies that Microsoft has but to touch upon the report, however firm executives have been dropping breadcrumbs about Xbox’s plans in quite a few interviews.
Per IGN:
Microsoft is but to touch upon the report, nonetheless its gaming executives have spoken publicly about each gadgets in imprecise phrases throughout numerous interviews. In January, Jason Ronald, Microsoft’s VP of ‘Subsequent Technology,’ instructed The Verge that the corporate plans to mix Xbox and Home windows experiences collectively for PC gaming handhelds made by unique tools producers (OEMs), in any other case often known as third-party {hardware} producers. Present PC gaming OEMs embrace Asus, Lenovo, and Razer. Keenan doesn’t relate to a first-party Xbox handheld, which Microsoft gaming boss Phil Spencer not too long ago indicated is years away.
As for the next-gen Xbox, Home windows Central mentioned it’s totally greenlit by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. The console is reportedly a premium successor to the Xbox Collection X, and this console, alongside a first-party Xbox gaming handheld and new controllers, are set to spherical out Microsoft’s console providing in 2027. The suggestion, then, is Microsoft doesn’t plan to launch a direct next-gen successor to the much less highly effective Xbox Collection S. Maybe Microsoft expects its handheld to occupy the cheaper, much less highly effective console area.
Based on Home windows Central, the following Xbox shall be extra like a PC and can help third-party storefronts like Steam, the Epic Video games Retailer, and GOG. Backwards compatibility, a preferred characteristic, can even return.
We’re curious to see this handheld. There’s additionally that different console that leaked, Brooklin, which remains to be up within the air, with some questioning if Microsoft canceled it.
Solely time will inform concerning what the gaming firm has up its sleeve because it concedes this gaming era, and appears ahead to the long run.
