We have been listening for many years rumors of an as-yet-unreleased portable Xbox. In 2019, we reflected on one of them, even accompanying it with images of what was to come, and more recently, in the summer of 2022, rumors of it returned. However, and as you already know, none of these rumors have yet been translated into reality, and in fact, there have been several rumors in the opposite direction as well, stating that the project has been canceled.

So it would make sense not to give credence to these types of statements, but that completely changed on February 15th when a special edition of the Xbox Podcast aired in which Microsoft announced that some of its exclusives would no longer be exclusives. And at the event, Phil Spencer stated that there are no plans for a portable Xbox at the moment, but he also mentioned that he loves them. And if we add this “currently” and the situation in the notebook market in recent years, everything encourages us to think that something is being planned in the medium term.

This makes what we read in Wccftech today particularly interesting, and it is stated Microsoft is currently working on several prototypes of the future portable Xbox. And something particularly interesting is that, unlike the path taken by Sony, which opted for a remote gaming device, the PlayStation Portal, Redmond is considering a device with a local launch capacity, although of course also open to transfers, since either from your own console , or from a cloud gaming service.

A particularly interesting aspect of this rumored leak is that it is being reported all the prototypes they are currently working on are newThis means that we are not talking about projects that have been open for some time, but rather a new effort in the search for what could be the long-awaited portable Xbox, a device that could already compete with the Xbox hardware catalog , on equal terms, by Sony (PlayStation and PlayStation Portal) and the Nintendo Switch, which serves as a home console as well as a laptop.

However, we should not wait for an early launch.. In that regard, there are theories that place it, should it eventually happen, between two years from now until the next generation debuts. So, barring a surprise, it will still be a while before we have official news about it.