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On Thursday, Microsoft and its Xbox division had quite a bit of news to share on the official Xbox Podcast. Including the teasing of the next-gen Xbox, which is going to deliver “the largest technical leap.”
Xbox President Sarah Bond stated, “We’ve got more to come. There’s some exciting stuff coming out in hardware that we’re going to share this holiday. We’re also invested in the next-generation roadmap. What we’re really focused on there is delivering the largest technical leap you will have ever seen in a hardware generation, which makes it better for players and better for creators and the visions that they’re building.”
The Verge is also reporting that Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer teased that the Xbox hardware teams are thinking about building different kinds of hardware. Spencer said his team is “really thinking about creating hardware that sells to gamers because of the unique aspects of the hardware. It’s kind of an unleashing of the creative capability of our hardware team that I’m really excited about.”
Microsoft is also teasing an Xbox handheld
If you read between the lines, you’ll see that Xbox is also teasing “different types of devices” in an Xbox blog post published today. This isn’t the first time we’ve heard about an Xbox handheld, but this is the first time that Microsoft has hinted towards it. Spencer did say that he is a “big fan of handhelds. I’m a big fan, but nothing to announce.” Spencer also admits that there is a lot of work to do on the Windows side for handheld gaming PCs still.