this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2024
172 points (94.3% liked)

Steam Hardware

19759 readers
245 users here now

A place to discuss and support all Steam Hardware, including Steam Deck, Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and SteamOS in general.

As Lemmy doesn't have flairs yet, you can use these prefixes to indicate what type of post you have made, eg:
[Flair] My post title

The following is a list of suggested flairs:
[Deck] - Steam Deck related.
[Machine] - Steam Machine related.
[Frame] - Steam Frame related.
[Discussion] - General discussion.
[Help] - A request for help or support.
[News] - News about the deck.
[PSA] - Sharing important information.
[Game] - News / info about a game on the deck.
[Update] - An update to a previous post.
[Meta] - Discussion about this community.

If your post is only relevant to one hardware device (Deck/Machine/Frame/etc) please specify which one as part of the title or by using a device flair.

These are not enforced, but they are encouraged.

Rules:

Link to our Matrix Space

founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Not an official announcement, but it's probably safe to assume an Xbox handheld is in development.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] MolochAlter@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

For my money? It won't allow that without jailbreaking.

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I doubt even Microsoft are stupid enough to think they could release a PC-based gaming handheld without Steam support and not fail spectacularly.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If it's Xbox branded they could probably get away with it.

[–] Vilian@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

but xbox games could run o it?, pc games runs on steam deck because you can lower the graphics, they can make the same for xbox games?

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

They use the xbox brand for microsoft store pc games too, and it's probably those + gamepass that it would run. Those should let you lower the graphics.

Also if the device is successful, it might actually get more devs to release their games on the Microsoft store instead of just on Steam, which would be a win-win for Microsoft.

[–] barsquid@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

I saw a video on the extent they went to locking down the Xbox, I think they would do the same for the handheld.

[–] MolochAlter@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Every console they release is so locked down you can't even install their own os on it, I think you're wrong.

[–] Bezier@suppo.fi 3 points 1 year ago

For sure, but regardless of that.