“It will be the successor to the Xbox Series X.” The rumored portable Xbox will be much more than what was originally thought

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Rumours about a portable Xbox have only grown in recent months, especially after Sarah Bond, current president of Xbox, talked about this possibility, as did Phil Spencer later on. And now new rumours have surfaced about this new hardware, although it is quite different from what has been said in recent months.

Until now, the information that had emerged indicated that the Xbox portable would arrive at some point in the next few years. In fact, it was speculated that it would be a hardware that would coexist alongside Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S. However, according to Jez Corden, a member of Windows Central, everything seems to indicate that the portable Xbox will not share a generation with the current Microsoft consoles, but that It would be the successor to Xbox Series X.

The portable Xbox would be a successor to the Xbox Series X and would arrive alongside another desktop console

In it Xbox Two PodcastCorden shed some light on Microsoft's portable, and said that he believed that those in Redmond's intention are to enter the new generation directly with a portable Xbox and with “the successor to Xbox Series X”. This would confirm that the console would not arrive during the current generation, and that the company would bet on a model of a desktop console and a portable console, although not in a hybrid way like Nintendo does.

Corden ventured into more issues, noting that he thought the portable Xbox and the new home console It would come along with the “end of the paywall for premium multiplayer games”. On many other occasions, there has been talk about the possibility of eliminating the payment system for playing online. However, to this day it is still necessary to have a subscription (Xbox Game Pass Core or Xbox Game Pass Ultimate) to be able to do so, unlike what happens with Free to Play games.

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Corden himself said that this was mere speculation, and that no one at Microsoft had talked to him about changing the way the online system works. Therefore, as is often the case, we must take this as a mere rumor. Of course, the talk about the portable console would make perfect sense, since it would mean launching the new generation with different types of users in mind. In addition, If they do so early, they could play with a crucial advantage.