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# Handheld consoles, assemble!
- URL: https://birchtree.me/blog/handheld-consoles-assemble/
- Published: 2025-03-12T23:10:09.000Z
- Updated: 2025-03-12T23:10:09.000Z
- Author: Matt Birchler
- Tags: Links, #Import 2025-03-29 19:29

Jez Corden writing for Windows Central: [EXCLUSIVE: Xbox's New Hardware Plans Begin With a Gaming Handheld Set for Later This Year, With Full Next-Gen Consoles Targeting 2027](https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/xbox-hardware-report-project-keenan-next-gen-xbox-2027?ref=birchtree.me)

> Microsoft is working with a PC gaming OEM (think ASUS, Lenovo, MSI, Razer, etc.) on an Xbox-branded gaming handheld, surprisingly slated for later in 2025 if plans are met.

The Switch showed that console games on a handheld weren’t just possible, but people loved them. 5 years later, the Steam Deck proved PC games could get in on the fun as well. I worry that working with partners will cause some messiness in the market, but I fully support them getting into the game too. That just leaves Sony, who in fairness got very close to this idea in 2011 with the [PlayStation Vita](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation%5FPortable?ref=birchtree.me), and I’d say it’s never too late to bring out a sequel.