Re: Now Even Microsoft Is Making a SteamDeck

On 6/15/2025 9:12 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Tue, 10 Jun 2025 11:57:17 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson
<spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
 On the other hand...
 Insiders are now reporting that " Microsoft's own Xbox handheld is
essentially canceled."*
 Which doesn't mean we won't see more OEM-built handheld-PCs with XBox
branding, like the recently announced Asus ROG XBox Ally. But
Microsoft is backing away from making their own portable console
hardware. Or, really, any gaming hardware in general. They haven't
--yet-- given up the idea of making another XBox console, but on the
whole the company is a lot less bullish about hardware in general.
These days, it seems they're much more interested in streaming and
cloud services.
 

But how is anyone going to use the streaming and cloud services without hardware?
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