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Tom's Guide

The future is handheld — so where do Xbox and PlayStation go next?

Tom's Guide
Summary
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67% Informative

The next generation of gaming consoles may be less than four years old , but it’s become increasingly clear that the big dogs of console gaming have turned their attention to the next generation.

From my vantage point, the future looks handheld.

Between the two major console manufacturers (and Nintendo ) and Nintendo , Sony might be the easier one to parse out a future.

Xbox could miniaturize the Series S as a handheld with the mainline system being some version of the Series X.

Tom of Moore's Law believes Xbox making a handheld is "them waving a white flag" and that it means Microsoft wants out.

Hayton said that if Xbox falls away from hardware, then the interest will fall away as well.

The Steam Deck is pretty close to "feature parity" with the Xbox Series S.

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