The portable Xbox is one of those devices that, although never officially confirmed, They’ve been in the air longer than it seems. And if you think I’m exaggerating, I invite you to read this piece from the house, which will soon be published for 15 years, in which my colleague Juan already reflected the sea of ​​​​rumors that arose practically from the arrival on the market of the first generation of the Microsoft console.

Until now, despite that Rumors pointing to its launch have been repeated from time to time, never came to fruition, although it was leaked on at least one occasion that plans for it existed but were ultimately scrapped. Of course, this makes us cautious, although we are at the moment of effervescence with this type of device, it has been leaked that several possible versions are already being worked on and some rumors suggest that we will have to wait until 2026.

Late yesterday afternoon (Spanish time) The Xbox Games Showcase 2024 was held, an event where the folks at Redmond once again dazzled us with tons of announcements and gameplay trailers, in addition to anticipating an important review that its current generation will undergo next Christmas. Of course, they didn’t tell us anything about the portable Xbox, but that didn’t stop Phil Spencer, head of Microsoft’s gaming division, from talking about the long-awaited device again.

And what he stated is very interesting and confirms what we have already heard in previous rumors and that’s it The portable Xbox will offer a complete local gaming experience. Installing games and running them, saving games locally… From what we can read in The Verge, Spencer wants the gaming experience on Microsoft’s future (and at this point hypothetical) portable console to be complete, even if we don’t have a connection to internet.

Does this mean that Microsoft has finally confirmed that there will be a portable Xbox? Well actually… no. Throughout, both on this and previous occasions, Spencer has been very careful to state that he is talking about what he would like in his role as a person who likes games. Just because it’s not an official confirmation doesn’t mean he’s just giving his opinion. We can call it a probe balloon, we can call it progress, we can call it… well, any number of ways, but when a manager speaks to that effect on multiple occasions, the reading seems pretty obvious.