Microsoft is combining “the best of Xbox and Windows together” for handhelds
www.theverge.com
The Windows handheld gaming experience may change in 2025.

Seemingly confirming the theory that “Xbox” will just be Windows going forward, at least on handhelds.

  • Snot FlickermanEnglish
    27•2 months ago

    “Xbox” will just be Windows going forward, at least on handhelds.

    We’ve come full circle, almost like a red ring of death.

    • Björn TantauEnglish
      16•2 months ago

      I just don’t get why they didn’t think of quickly porting the Xbox interface over to desktop Windows. Should have been an easy fix to make handheld gaming on Windows more appealing.

      • @ampersandrewOPEnglish
        18•2 months ago

        It’s a lot more than that. SteamOS isn’t just Steam Big Picture Mode. There’s some special sauce in there to capture the active window so that you never lose focus of the game window and such. If you just run a Windows machine set to boot into Steam Big Picture on startup, you’ll find lots of times that you have to break out a keyboard to Alt+Tab for a variety of reasons that SteamOS never encounters. And given the other problems Windows has introduced over the past decade, that’s the least of their problems now.

        • MrScottyTayEnglish
          4•2 months ago

          Just chiming in to confirm you’re correct. I use big picture mode on windows and I’ve got to keep an air mouse with me for moments like that.

        • LiveLMEnglish
          2•2 months ago

          special sauce in there to capture the active window so that you never lose focus

          All hail Gamescope!

    • VindictiveJudgeEnglish
      11•2 months ago

      RROD was actually 3/4ths of a circle. A full red circle was a different and less troubling error.