Rumour: Xbox Showcase To Feature First-Party Shadow Drop, Details On Portable Console

Microsoft has confirmed a high-end console for the next generation, but an Xbox handheld on top of that would be fascinating, because it means a native Xbox experience anywhere, like what some people tried with the Series S and XScreen. Personally, I can't wait for controller news because my Elite Series 2 just broke!

If what the handheld is is that they somehow managed to compress a Series S into a handheld form factor while keeping the price at least somewhat reasonable, I would 100% buy one. I don't play many digital games, but it would be a really cool way to experience the digital only library that I currently have!

Don't see the point in these handhelds id say it literally just streams games nothing more doesn't look big enough to have series s power internally but could be wrong either way it's not for me only the handhelds I would buy is Nintendo there games suit that for me Xbox best played in front of tv for me

It will be interesting to see how their drm policy changes with a handheld. They can't really continue with the always online requirement with a handheld even for gamepass downloads.

Double fine should have something ready to show or possibly shadow drop.

I honestly think both these rumors are BS though. If they mention a portable console at all it will be something really vague. "Our next hardware will give you more freedom to play anywhere" or something. No way they actually show it or name it specifically.

Shadow Drop the Marcus Fenix collection. That would rock my socks off. I would play that so much. My favorite trilogy ever and easily favorite Xbox IP. Sunday needs to get here i am excited for whats to be at the showcase. The handheld is for sure coming in 2025 or so but even light details would be nice to see.

I've been saying for a few months now that I think it entirely possible that Gears of War: The Marcus Fenix remasters could be shadow-dropped at their Summer showcase. That would make the entire Summer event for me.

I really do think that it is a strong possibility, and that it will drop alongside a reveal for Gears 6, with that game releasing around September 2025, thus the remasters would be there to tide us over until 6 comes out.

What I would also love to see is a reveal for Gears Tactics 2 as well, but I'm not sure how successful the first game was, and whether a sequel would actually be greenlit at all, which is a shame as it really is an excellent game...

Damn, @HonestHick! I was obviously writing my (far longer! 😂) comment regarding the Fenix Collection at the same time as you, but because your comment was much shorter than mine 😉, you beat me in posting it... 🤣

Got to love our consistency when it comes to this topic...

With MS talking about 'opening' up Xbox to other gaming services (like Steam or Epic), as well as their Surface line of Tablets/Laptops, I do wonder whether or not MS will make a Handheld Console or Handheld PC (to compete with Asus, Lenovo, MSI etc).

If they make it more a 'console' and its around the same price as Handheld PC's, I do wonder whether it would be 'competitive' as it's locked to 'just' Xbox, may require an Online Subscription (Game Pass Core minimum) and 'locked' to Xbox store only. Where as Handheld PCs have access to Steam, Epic etc, don't require a Sub for Online access and of course have significantly larger Game Library - inc Sony's PC releases and Emulation.

Microsoft have both Console and PC hardware and their 'Surface' PC's in particular are built for Portability - Tablets and Laptops. They 'could' make a Surface 'Xbox' handheld PC that merges their 'hardware' PC/Console division....

I'm not hyping a Marcus Fenix Collection but I'll be happy for you guys if they do announce it @Fiendish-Beaver and @HonestHick 😂
Maybe the 1st party shadow drop will be Indiana Jones or State of Decay 3

Three possible ways Portable could go?:

1. Device like Steam Deck, Asus ROG Ally etc., playing downloaded games.

2. 'Empty' streaming device very similar to PlayStation Portal, playing games downloaded on your XSX remotely over the network.

3. Xbox Cloud Gaming device, playing games streamed over the network.

Advantage for Microsoft of the third option is that users would require a Game Pass subscription, so could help retain existing subscribers as well as providing a cheap way in to Game Pass for newcomers. Some of the streaming issues experienced by PlayStation Portal users when away from home would be mitigated by having the games streamed directly from MS's servers. Anyway, just a thought.

***** yeh, first good news in a while

I want the buildup for Gears Of War sooooo bad. I will never forget the Mad World Trailer from the 1st games.

I do not think any Gears Games will be a shadow drop tho. (maybe a controller) I would purchase immidiately by the way.

My guess is Towerborne as the Drop.

Also...I know not 1st party but.......

Hollow Knight Silksong? Indie Game? No physicla? Makes sense?

I have a feeling MS are going to have a good show.

Their relatively low output in recent years plus their acquisitions really should mean an increased number of releases at some point and this could be it.

Tbh I feel they need a good show right now.

@ElectricCity If they went with the first option, the Handheld PC, that still gives them the option to Sell Game Pass and play games over the network direct from MS servers.

2 and 3 are likely very similar devices and could stream games you 'own' from your Console (like PS Portal) as well as Stream games from Game Pass on MS servers.

Game Pass Cloud is limited to just those Games in Game Pass that are available via Cloud. Most are not so a 'Game Pass Cloud' only device is extremely limited on what games anyone could play and that list is forever changing - games you may want to play can be removed so no access on your Streaming only device...

I'm sure MS would let other 3rd Party manufacturers make Streaming only handhelds as they can still sell Game Pass to those who buy. But their main 'Gaming' audience will want something they can download and play locally games - especially as wifi/internet access on the 'go' can be limited at best. That device will still sell Game Pass Subs, but also 'sell' games/content to play.

I hope everyone here is right about a GOW collection. Need to detox after playing 5 😁

@Fenbops Yep, I played them all and I loved them all but 5, that is such a mess, although technically impressive and Hivebusters is fun. The essence of the classics was killed and Kait is the greatest spoilsport in video games history. How a single character can destroy the good vibes of a beloved franchise and make it boring and depressing...

@Banjo- Hivebusters was great. Felt more ‘Gears’ than the whole of 5 imo. Looks incredible on series X also.

I don't care what it is, I'll buy it. I buy it all, next Xbox, Xbox handheld, PS6, Switch 2. You name it, I'll buy it.

Hoping is it not a remaster or remake stuff. I'm tired of that. Would be dissapointing.
Having backwards compatibility is enough for me and makes remakes and remasters even more unnecessary.

Is it really a shadow drop when you are expecting it? More like a partially visible drop?

@Banjo- I am in the same boat … just limping along on my backup controller- so ready for an updated one…

@AlwaysPlaying I'm using the Series X controller and it's fine but I miss the paddles so much.

I would like to buy a Series 2 on Xbox Design Lab because I prefer the colour buttons so much more and you can design an Elite Series 2 controller and buy only the accessories you need. That's awesome, but I'm hoping that a Series 3 is revealed soon, because if the Sebile controller is real and it seems so because it was leaked during the ABK acquisition with what seem official slides, an Elite Series 3 should come right after, or at least that would be the logical thing to do.

I created a thread for sharing thoughts about the Elite controllers:

https://www.purexbox.com/forums/xbox-series-x/xbox_elite_controller_series_thread#reply-01

@Aniscape When Xbox Games Showcase broadcasts, people will start complaining about the lack of new announcements and the subsequent disappointment just because there were leaks, but that's not Microsoft's fault.

There is so many games that could shadow drop that is fun guessing… how about:
1) Avowed
2) Dungeons of Hindenburg
3) Skybilvion
4) ABK collection
5) Doom Dark Ages
The show will be a must watch live event for me… I would buy a Surface type handheld that played my backlog ….

@Banjo- so true.

I just like enjoying the show and if there is something for me then great. There are so many games right now. Plenty to play.

@Aniscape Yes, I have so much to play on Series X that I don't think I need anything else for many years, but of course I'd love my favourite franchises to come back.

People on internet complaining about games that they haven't played, about games being delayed when their backlog is huge and about the lack of new announcements because of NDAs not being respected...

I really can't imagine it's true they unveil the handheld. All previous rumors and their own statements hinted that it was still in R&D and was probably a late 2025 product. I'm assuming it's an ARM based system and will promote the better battery life over the Ally/Legion.

@BacklogBrad They'd have to have a "Home Handheld" the way they have a "Home Xbox" so that you have one Xbox and one Handheld that doesn't need to check the license online. On your primary Xbox it already works that way (no online check more than once a month or something), on secondary xboxes you must be online. They just need to extend it so that you also have a primary handheld that works that way.

@Ricky-Spanish The Ryzen Z1 handhelds like Ally have been around for a while. They're pretty powerful. Starfield chokes on it (though there's mods to help with that) but nearly anything else runs decently on low settings. Having just got a Legion I've been playing with pushing most things to 60fps across the board even if I have to drop settings to minimum. 60fps on handheld battery where xsx doesn't allow 60fps half the time is a new world.

@DonkeyFantasy Yeah, it'll be down to price/performance. Ally non-Extreme is only $400 on sales, though, and is actually a heck of a performer for all but the big, big games. But they're going to need things like Starfield to run, and that's a dog even on the Extreme version. Like 15-20fps on low settings extreme. It's a game problem, modders have fixed it (because of course) but for an "Xbox" handheld it'll need to run EVERYTHING, where things like Starfield and Dogma 2 will be trouble, and that'll be a tall order at console prices where the $600+ handheld PCs have their limits. It'll stomp them on battery though I'm sure.

@BAMozzy I somehow missed the Xbox/Steam rumours. If this happens, it'll be the single biggest boost to Xbox I can imagine. A handheld and a high end console would be a great business move - if Steam and the Xbox store/Gamepass are all on there (I can't afford to upgrade my PC any year soon!).

@Fiendish-Beaver we are on it buddy. You have been saying shadow drop on the collection for a while now. I hope you are right. That would be so cool and really make the show.

If Xbox releases portable in same mindset and idea as the Nintendo Switch, that I really think could succeed. But it will absolutely be an underpowered system, much like the Switch.

But with the amount of Series S fanboys out there, that really enjoy an underpowered console which struggles to play many games, it will sell well, at least at first.

Surely Microsoft, Sony et al must be keeping a close eye on the AI upscaling technology that Nvidia/AMD are pioneering. I don't think Microsoft should rush out new hardware without first ensuring it can take advantage of this tech whether on day one and/or through ongoing updates. If not people will no doubt continue to complain about the choice between frame rate and fidelity.

@Banjo- What happened to your Elite 2?

@GuyinPA75

Here.

https://www.purexbox.com/forums/xbox-series-x/xbox_elite_controller_series_thread#reply-01

@Banjo- What's wrong with Kait? I like her. Granted, I'm just someone that plays and enjoys Gears. Definitely not a super fan. So maybe that's why not bothered by her.

@DonkeyFantasy Yeah, that's the part I don't get. What is Xbox's main selling point going to be, assuming it's not especially cheap, if for similar money you can get something either more powerful or more open/unrestricted? Long battery may be a big one, but eventually (not quite soon though) the Ally/Legion/others will match that or Z2 comes out. And Deck already does ok on battery. Seems like the only real selling point is that it would play your console-licensed library, which is a big deal, but doesn't encourage anyone to jump in if they're not already in it, and Xbox's biggest problem is not enough people are in it. (and then the physical buyers get nothing.)

I love the idea of an Xbox handheld, but got impatient and/or jaded by the current direction of XB and wanted to test the waters of returning to PC and got the Legion, and I'm in the same place. Other than battery, other than price (if it's $300 instead of $600 that's a big deal) I don't see what it could offer that's not just a worse option. And strangely Xbox and Phil himself promoted the Ally directly - and they even include months GPU with it, so it's already a semi-official Xbox product, and you can already play Game Pass on it. Battery and price (and old console licenses) are really all they could offer.

It won't be a streaming box, and rumor is that Sony is also working on a real handheld (Vita 2?) but MS doesn't have the advantage of the Sony faithful that will buy anything PS ecosystem like Apple users, and does have the advantage that the existing handheld PCs.....are already Xbox/Game Pass cobranded.

Only thing right now I can think of is something to do with their Qualcomm partnership and some sort of Snapdragon X Elite handheld, which could probably get 15 hours of battery vs 60-90 minutes on the Z1E at full tilt. But graphics are not the strong suit of those things, leaning hard into the NPU based AI upscaling, and those are quite pricy, appearing, for now, only on $1k laptops.

I was all in on the Xbox handheld, but having a taste of what the PC handhelds offer, now, I'm not sure what it will really offer. It's main advantage would be to maximize the ecosystem if it were a large, heavily populated ecosystem. If they go CHEAP though, they're probably intending to make a Game Pass run against Switch 2. Which could be effective, but it makes it a lot less appealing product to our market than we'd hoped.

@NEStalgia It's an easy setup regarding appearance in the showcase, the handheld gets used to explain the multiplatform strategy. You have lots of PS5 logos in the showcase and then the Xbox handheld is revealed to be a PC (including access to the multiple launchers like Steam and EGS) that can also play your Xbox console library via the cloud.

Then whenever Switch 2 is announced, those games coming to PS5 are also coming to Switch 2.

@Grumblevolcano I can't tell if that's cynical sarcasm or honest lol

I don't think it's going to be quite like that, but, even if we assume it is, we're right back to the same situation: If the handheld is a normal PC, and revealed as such, why buy it over the Ally that was also marketed by Xbox unless it's way better, way cheaper, or both? I.E. If it's just that, then I already own the Xbox handheld, why have an announcement?

I love how some of the tweets think there is an actual first party title called ‘Shadow Drop’ on the way. It’s kind of sweet.

@NEStalgia I think that MS, with their Surface experience too, would go the Handheld PC route but unlike Ally, could actually bring the Xbox Dashboard (or create a version for PC's) that makes it 'easy' for Console gamers to transition.

The Ally is getting a new Armoury Crate and MS has mentioned maybe addressing their Windows footprint on these devices for Gaming/Touchscreens - which can be a pain without a Keyboard/mouse. So if MS can bring 'Xbox' Dash instead of Armoury Crate or whatever Lenovo/MSi etc have to create, that does give them that 'edge' in bridging the Console and PC ecosystems.

MS too could make it just as comfortable as their own Controllers too with their proper 'Xbox' button. As Xbox gamers are 'familiar' with the Xbox Dash, Steam, Epic etc could be added as Apps, like Game Pass and its Library in the 'Games/Apps' section.

I think the big 'problem' could be getting Publishers on board to support 'Direct Storage' to allow Gamers to buy games and get the 'version' for their Hardware. So if you buy a game, its playable on 'PC' or 'Xbox Console'. It works with some Xbox games, but if I buy an Ubisoft game on Xbox, I can't play that on RoG Ally like you can with Xbox Play Anywhere games bought through MS store.

That to me is the 'biggest' hurdle to overcome - make it like their 'Locked' Consoles, then your Xbox Library is easily accessible, make it more like a PC, some games may be playable, but most won't unless you rebuy. Some way to get 'Xbox' on PC to ensure Xbox gamers can bring their Xbox library with them, and its instantly more appealing than Current handhelds for Xbox.

I do think it would have limited appeal if its just a Handheld Series S - locked to Xbox, requiring Game Pass Core (min) for Online, limited to 'Series S' frame rates/settings and not offering the range of games handheld PC's offer, that maybe as tough to sell as Xbox Consoles are now. Some may buy instead of upgrading to a Series S/X and others will opt to buy PC's so not really increasing their 'Console' user base.

@NEStalgia If they can make it run a miniaturised version of the Xbox One chipset then it has 100% backwards compatibility with your entire Xbox library without streaming. I’d happily play a portable with Fable 2 and Forza Horizon 1!

@BAMozzy Yeah, I could see them selling it largely on the launcher being Xbox Dashboard. Though I could also see them making that a standard Windows mode for all handhelds/gaming PCs, so 50/50 if that's a selling feature.

But yeah you mentioned the biggest problem MS has with a PC-console future right now is those licensing agreements. Play Anywhere is great, but virtually nothing supports it. Sega does. They're practically the only one. Square doesn't for anything except Balan Wonderworld for reasons I can't guess. Ubi won't even support Steam families. Neither does EA, rockstar, Sony (yet they put things on GoG eventually?!)

The other big problem is the Windows store in General. Out of a library of like 300 games, about 30 are actually Play Anywhere on PC. And nearly all the rest aren't available on the Windows store at all. Most big games just aren't available through MS in Windows at all, publishers aren't interested. Even most Bethesda stuff isn't even on there still.

The double-catch is, if they get publishers to acquiesce to putting their games on Windows Store ad allowing PlayAnywhere, then the handheld still loses its appeal vs others. If they manage to get publishers to cave and only allow it on the Xbox handheld, it's still a locked ecosystem and needs to be subsidized heavily to be competitive.

One problem they have with an "Xbox handheld" is even the presumably more powerful Z1E struggles with the newest most demanding games, but PC-buyers kind of know what they're getting into. An Xbox portable needs to be seamless to customers that don't know. Starfield on worse hardware than a Z1E is basically impossible. It's basically not possible on a Z1E. Maybe that game will be rebuilt for it, but Dragon's Dogma 2 won't be, etc. that struggles on the big consoles. Ally buyers know they're not going to play DD2. Xbox handheld buyers won't know that.

It's definitely a tricky project that seems like a slam dunk, but there's a lot of devils in the details.

@RadioHedgeFund True, but then the main target audience becomes long time Xbox players who have an existing digital library from back in the days when people didn't buy digital libraries. Not a large market at all. The fact that 360 was predominantly physical dampens the BC enthusiasm for such a device. And the low sales of X1 dampen it further. While all the X1 and Series stuff is available on any handheld PC, along with Game Pass itself. Obviously price, though will be a huge factor, if it's $300 you can't really compare it to the $500-600 machines. If it's 400 it gets dodgy.

I figure they must have a trick up their sleeve, but I can't figure out what it is. My best guess might be that they're definitely not showing it this year, and they're really going the full Switch route, where the handheld is the whole "greatest tech leap" console and the dock uses a custom eGPU to massively boost it. Copying the Nintendo all-in-one approach would be a very MS thing to do and differentiate from PS.

@NEStalgia “ Only thing right now I can think of is something to do with their Qualcomm partnership and some sort of Snapdragon X Elite handheld, which could probably get 15 hours of battery vs 60-90 minutes on the Z1E at full tilt. But graphics are not the strong suit of those things, leaning hard into the NPU based AI upscaling, and those are quite pricy, appearing, for now, only on $1k laptops”

While graphic performance aren’t a big part of those chips. They are very potent chips performance wise. They should have no issues running most games at 800P with medium settings and hit 60FPS. But we have to wait for independent reviewers to get the full picture.

As for appearing only in $1k laptop… That cause laptop/hardware manufacturers aren’t subsidizing the cost of components. Those are designed strictly to make money off the hardware.

Xbox can and will subsidize the hardware cost… That is something Asus and Lenovo also aren’t doing with their handhelds. So Xbox could easily release a stronger handheld at a cheaper price point.

@AverageGamer MS's own demo had it running BG3 at 30fps only, and relying on AI upscaling. Not sure what resolution, though. It doesn't seem too likely those would supplant a Z1E at graphics-specific tasks though. At least not on a handheld power profile. "800p at 60fps medium settings" would far exceed a Series S, so I'm dubious of that.

Yes, hardware mfrs aren't subsidizing, but Phil already talked about the subsidized console model not being sustainable due to moore's law ending and other factors, so basically expect prices to go up, so I'm not sure if it'll be too different here. If Phil's comments are to be taken as strategy, MS does not intend to subsidize hardware anymore. But, of course, who knows if Phil's comments mean much.

@NEStalgia 30FPS in BG3 is super impressive. That a very heavy CPU game, not necessarily GPU bond. They ran AI upscaling mostly due to the fact a lot these snapdragons chip is going to be put into laptops with ridiculously high near 4k panels. Games won’t look good on these panels without the AI upscaling. Even on Ally with a 1080P screen you need to run BG3 with FSR to get “higher” than 30FPS.

Also, I would like to note that their performance test is most likely using an x86 to ARM translation layer, not a native ARM version of BG3 that can port from Mac. So, there is definitely going to be some performance loss there.

“"800p at 60fps medium settings" would far exceed a Series S, so I'm dubious of that.”

I wouldn’t doubt that. The Series S wasn’t that impressive of kit when it released, and we are easily reaching the point that it can be surpassed by these mobile chips… People say the Series S GPU is the equivalent of 5500xt. At this point, the M4 in my iPad Pro is faster than the Series S.

If Microsoft stop subsidizing hardware. We can really say goodbye to Xbox hardware. No one is going to bother buying overpriced Xbox hardware. Even Valve realized the importance of subsidizing hardware which is why they did that with Steam Deck.

@AverageGamer I think most of the selling point of the X Elite is the transition layer though. Most of these games, especially BC will be through that layer.

IDK where it'll land next to the Z1E, I know it's way more power efficient, but it's also not dedicated to graphics, and as you said BG3 is very CPU bound, and that's where the X Elite excels. But take your average game that sips the CPU on the Z1 and clobbers the GPU and IDK where the performance ends up. I'm curious to see where the Asus and Lenovo units go next, I can't see them making the snapdragon jump, and a WoA solution especially in gaming will get kind of awkward fast with so much legacy stuff abound, so it would work better on a closed platform than an open one.

I mean I would hope your $1000 ipad pro could beat a $250 Series S..... Though with Apple I wouldn't doubt if it didn't.

But yeah, the subsidy thing is the lynchpin here. Of course a subsidized Xbox-only handheld would run way cheaper than a full-on-mini-laptop Ally. But Phil was pretty blunt and detailed about the end of the console model/subsidy model. And it ties into his openness about having other stores on Xbox. Which, if they're doing that, means there's no guaranteed return on hardware subsidy, so those two things ending goes hand in hand. I think he basically soft-announced that's their strategy going forward. (multiplatform, not a walled garden, no more subsidy. So...basically just a PC. At maybe(?) slightly better than PC prices due to mass produced fixed spec build) The question is really just if it starts with the handheld or with the "greatest technological leap" next gen (assuming they're not the same thing.)

So pricing-wise I'm assuming all future hardware isn't subsidized and is way more expensive than we're used to (I mean, he point blank said so.) So maybe sold at small margin instead of totally for-profit like Asus has to lets them get in a little cheaper than pure 3rd party hardware. If Asus is $600 for an extreme, maybe Xbox comes in 500 for a snapdragon? They don't have to pay the Windows license like Asus does so there's that. I'm expecting next "gen" xbox will be $700+ (or it will be really sucky hardware) if they're dropping subsidies. It makes it really sketchy. If Xbox goes full Surface...but allows 3rd party stores like any windows box it becomes harder to explain.

I think they can still come in cheaper than custom build hardware/laptops, just due to the mfr process, no windows key, and not needing to generate large profit on the hardware itself, but he did talk about prices being higher than people "might be used to" (in classic Phil parlance lol.) Problem is you're giving up a lot to save a little in that case.

Still if the handheld is powerful and battery efficient AND not a walled garden it could be appealing. But if it's 500 or above, it's DoA. That market's buying Decks and Rogs for sure.

@NEStalgia "I think most of the selling point of the X Elite is the transition layer though. Most of these games, especially BC will be through that layer."

Microsoft and Qualcomm have improved the emulation, but we'll see if it as good as Rosetta. They have tried multiple time and have failed... But there will still be a performance hit vs native ARM apps.

I don't see them making the ARM jump simply because they would be too lazy to recode their bloatware and other pointless junk just yet for ARM. Better to stay with x86 for compatibly reason until the market increases.

We already see where at least Asus is going. They plan to repackage basically the same hardware in a slight nicer package for $800

"I mean I would hope your $1000 ipad pro could beat a $250 Series S..... Though with Apple I wouldn't doubt if it didn't. "

We're not talking about price... We're talking about the massive technical improvement that we've seen in mobile chip. Where a tablet can now beat out a system with active cooling. It doesn't matter what my iPad cost since it has a screen, camera, speakers... etc. It also isn't being subsidized like Series S.

@AverageGamer That's the crux and maybe smoke and mirrors of the new WoA Qualcomm love fest. The whole WoA project depends on the emulation entirely. The whole point of windows is its compatibility, and needing weird bespoke apps to make use of WoA is the whole reason it fails every time. If the emulation ends up not being what they crack it up to be the Qualcomm partnership will crash and burn again quickly and sit next to RT in the dumpster (and now Nadella has strained relationships with AMD and Intel, badly, in the process.) Nobody wants a Microsoft Apple. They're just going to buy an Apple unless it's just normal Windows that runs as well as an Apple. So we'll see. it's revolutionary if the emulation is really good.

They're making the market push for it, though. They've made the market believe x86 is dead and Qualcomm is the future. I don't think Intel's buying that though. But they're sure unhappy.

Asus, yeah, but to be fair to the price of the Ally X, that's the 1tb model which was always $700 I think. Stupid, still, I agree, but hasn't ROG always been overpriced, lol? Memories of my $300 mobo that blew caps in 2y..... Yeah, I'd hope those prices come down when the Ally 2 comes out. I don't see people paying $1k for a handheld next to steam deck by then lol. They still have their $500, often $400 model though.

@Banjo- I've had my Elite Series 2 for three years now, and the left bumper started to fail. I just opened up the thing, cleaned the button contacts with isopropyl alcohol and it started working like new again.

It took me like 15 min tops.

@OskarRex Thank you, I will try that because it's worth a shot, although it seems that something is broken.

@NEStalgia It's an honest comment. If Operation Latitude is real, it makes sense to just put PS5 logos next to the games that are coming to PS5. Announcement after the event only really makes sense if there's only a few multiplatform 1st party games.

As for the hardware, I've said previously about how I think Xbox's future is a PC that can run Xbox games in the cloud. It would explain the teases about the subsidized model not working and PC stores on Xbox, fit in with the already announced announcement of all owned games playable in the cloud later this year and make the jump to ARM easier.

Native support for Xbox console games on ARM devices sounds like a licensing nightmare.