Perfect representation of the modern gaming industry. No personality, no ownership, no choice.
You won't be so smug when your options to play nextgen games are entirely reduced to streaming services on a dongole, gamer chuddie.
All of your old games will be on the Cloud as well, cycled out between services like shows on Netflix/Hulu/Paramount/Disney+ until people lose hosting rights and are no longer legally playable.
There was a disc drive here. It's gone now.
they can try to pry the physical storage and backups out of my cold dead hands. besides, not everything released today is garbage, just the AAAA slop mostly, which is all about nextgen because MUH GRAPHIX and shit made by shit devs requiring a 5090 to run at console tier 900p upscaled and fake frames to appear smooth...
You forgot about the part where they're also requiring the Intel i9-9999999K that's pozz-loaded with built-in telemetry and AI processing bullshit on the chip and is such a power-hungry bitch that even absolute zero is not enough to prevent your computer from kickstarting a neighborhood-wide fire just from idling on your desktop.
Handheld gaming has changed since the 90s-00s. Portable devices are more capable now than ever. If Xbox does do a handheld, I suspect it'll be another Xbox Series S situation where games have to be made in tandem for both devices.
It will probably be a portable Game Pass machine and nothing more. It won't run local game software it will just stream your game from some type of cloud gaming service run by Microsoft. And you won't be able to stream games from your own Xbox like the Vita used to be able to do with the Playstation 3. You will have to be a Game Pass subscriber to use the device at all like a modern smartphone service plan.
