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Microsoft Doesn't Have Plans For a Dedicated Handheld Gaming Device
DroidJason1 writes: "Rumors have persisted for a while now that Microsoft is working on a dedicated handheld gaming device to go against the Sony PS Vita or Nintendo 3DS. The head of Xbox has now responded to a question about it from an eager gamer on Twitter who asked whether there were any plans for a 'handheld Xbox-One-like gaming device.' The answer is no. Microsoft is focused on Windows Phone, tablets, and perhaps both with controller support someday."
They lost the battle when they couldn't force everyone to use their shit on every device owned. High five to them for trying though.
Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once.
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Not to defend MS, but when was the last time you saw ANYBODY using a handheld gaming device anywhere? When was the last time you saw a sign for a PSP or NDS (outside of a GameStop store)?
The market is dying a fast and miserable death. There is no need for any company to waste resources on a product guaranteed to be a flop because the market no longer exist .... completely replaced by mobile devices.
Windows Phone. ... now whether it is successful or not is another story.
But xbox live and Halo is on it for the few dozen users
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Plenty of room for handheld gaming devices - iOS, Android and MS should all get as much of this clearly lucrative market niche as they can - my guess is that there are a lot of cell phone users out there who consider music, video and games to be primary functions of their handheld communication devices. I'll bet a lot of them even consider telephone connectivity to be secondary to network connectivity on those devices.
It is just a matter of time that the device world catches up with the Xbox. The underlying development tools will eventually allow game deployment on other windows hardware. I also think this will be true for casual gaming to the Xbox, and a universal platform for all sorts of other goodies to come.
Windows 9 is the answer. They had a peak of a unified platform but it was not finished at BUILD last month. MS made a mistake and should have made Windows 8 apps work across all.
I think next year we will find out but it maybe too late ... like freaking 7 years late after ANDROID and IOS where METRO is the new OS/2. They became the old IBM for being behind the times and not quick and nimble like Apple and Google.
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Good, the hand held gaming console is dead...
My Windows tablet already has controller support. As much as any other x86 Windows box does. There isn't really any class of controller that won't work on it.
Granted, there are hardware features like buttons, sticks and 3D screens that aren't in a phone
So what's the best way to control a platformer on a touch-screen phone without having to use a clip-on Bluetooth controller by MOGA? I tried the demo of Pixeline and the Jungle Treasure for Android, and I had trouble making jumps until I broke out a Bluetooth keyboard. It turns out that an on-screen jump because the thumbs drift over time from where they're supposed to be, and a flat sheet of glass provides no tactile feedback to position the thumbs over the controls. The only remotely platformer-like games that I've seen made to work on touch are the one-button "endless runner" games where the only action is to jump (Canabalt, Rayman) or flap (Jetpack Joyride, Piou Piou) to steer around advancing obstacles.
It's a lot easier to carry a Nintendo 3DS than to carry a Windows tablet and a bulky Xbox 360 controller, which is the only kind of controller that works with Windows Store apps. (Windows Store apps cannot use standard USB HID controllers; it can use only XInput controllers licensed by Microsoft.)
asked whether there were any plans for a 'handheld Xbox-One-like gaming device. "The answer is no. Microsoft is focused on getting reamed by Sony, perhaps with controller support someday."
FTFY
(it's just a joke, guys!)
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
Although, I have been very unsatisfied with my cellphone lately.
Negative headlines: meteoroid does not hit the Earth - YET, The Earth is not flat ANYMORE, Sony is NOT releasing their PS5 - YET!
Who cares?
*Clears throat to do his best Sarge impression* Could you put that in a memo and title it SHIT I ALREADY KNOW?!
For those who seek perfection there can be no rest on this side of the grave.
Apple is quick and nimble??? WTF? apple don't rely on speed or being nimble at all, they are usually very late to the party but rely on being well polished and pretty. Their music players, tablets and phones are generally 1 to 2 generations behind the competition technology wise.
One of the fun things about the 3DS is that you know how many are owned because each time you walk past an owner with StreetPass on, you get a notification.
Seeing as my StreetPass slots fill up most days, I'm going to assume there's quite a few out there.
The question then becomes how many people are willing to buy a clip-on controller instead of just sticking with single-button endless-runner type games.
Convergence is where it is at. No one wants to lug around a ton of different devices.
Didn't they say several years ago that they were not working on a game console at all - and then a few months later they released the first pictures of what became the original XBox?
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
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Hey mmell: Yer bein' called out (why ya runnin', "forrest"?) http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
Is this your mother Jan Kowalski's basement?
to be fair microsoft has been trying to get tablet windows machines since forever. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_tablet_computers
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
But I think he's living at his mother Jan Kowalski's basement at:
I've used first generation Tablet PCs (Compaq TC-1000 and whatnot). The problem is that they try to force a paradigm (handheld computers) and combine it with laptops. The keyboards are detachable which ruins the laptop portion. The screen section (which included hard drive, CPU, and everything else) was top heavy, so the screen kept flopping down. Other models solved this by making it so the screen's viewing angle couldn't be adjusted. To top it off, Tablet PCs couldn't really sit in your lap like a laptop. It was best sitting on a flat surface.
The thing is, the optional keyboards were so lightweight that detaching them saved almost no weight (and making them detachable probably added a bit of thickness). I think the solution was to make a traditional laptop with a flippable screen (there are some models out there these days). Thus making it both a laptop and a tablet.
The Microsoft Surface attachable keyboard concept just shows that they haven't learned anything.
One useful thing Apple did with the iPad was drop the physical keyboard entirely. Another was that they used a cut-down interface instead of a full OS/GUI. (And the price *was* lower than the $1,000 or more Tablet PCs).
So did IBM.
Apple had a far superior product. MS just got some cheap plastic and put XP on it with a digitizer and called it the day and wondered why they didn't take off? They did not really make a tablet like Steve Jobs did.
Love him or hate his guts I give the man credit for making sure the products are ready, sleek, work, well, and perfected. MS and Blackberry deserved to lose. They didn't even try to make a good product and thought marketing droids would sell them.
Apple made the whole thing mobile inside and out from the beginning. Both the iphone and ipad were years ahead of it's time. If Metro for tablets (not desktops) were out in 2008 we would not be discussing it. MS would have won hands down but Apple and then Android built consumer oriented devices actually made to run applets.
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But I think he's living at his mother Jan Kowalski's basement at:
At least, that's where he wants users of his hostfile manager to send him money.