Rumour: Xbox Handheld System Will Sit Alongside 'A Series X Successor'
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We're not even four years into the current console generation yet, but plenty of rumours about what's next for Xbox hardware have already been circulating in recent months. Some sort of handheld console has been heavily rumoured, and a new comment from Windows Central's Jez Corden sheds light on a potential route that Microsoft could take.

Speaking on the Xbox Two podcast, Corden reckons that Microsoft will go into next-gen with a handheld console and a "Series X successor" - hinting that a portable console could effectively be the replacement for Xbox Series S.

Here's a clip showing this bit of chatter:

During that same podcast episode, Corden also 'predicted' that these two consoles would arrive alongside "the end of the paywall for premium multiplayer games", although this was very much speculation more than anything else. We've heard that rumour before although it's never come to anything, but with Microsoft's continued tweaking of Xbox Game Pass, who knows where we'll end up in a few years' time.

As we always say with this sort of thing, it's all just rumoured information for now and shouldn't be taken as fact until we hear from Xbox. With the team's ever-shifting direction at the moment, these kinds of plans seem even more up in the air than usual, so we'd wait for official confirmation on their next-gen strategy before making any bets on the future.

Do you think another two-console approach is likely? Tell us your thoughts on this rumour down below.

[source youtu.be]