XBox Will there ever be a XBOX handheld?

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I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one whose thought about this. For the longest time, Nintendo was solo-ing it in the handhled market. Than along came Sony with the PSP, and while Nintendo will probably always dominate in the handheld field, the PSP has put up a decent fight.

But what of the XBOX? Would you even want an XBOX handheld? Could it bring in some money to Microsoft? Would it differ from the what the PSP can do?
 
no, because the epic XBOX provides can't be on a handheld. Handhelds just ruin a company's rep in my opinion. They almost always have terrible graphics. Boring games. And chiztastic voice acting.


If Microsoft/xbobx is smart, they'll keep to the consoles instead of handhelds.
 
If I remember right when the original Xbox came out they were discussing the idea of an Xbox handheld but I believe what it came down to was that Microsoft decided that unlike Sony and Nintendo they didn't need to jump on the handheld bandwagon to make sales.

What I think is that it would be a cool idea, playing in handheld form would be golden. :ohoho:
 
years ago there were rumours about xbox getting in on the market, but this was back when the original xbox was brand new, and since nothing ever came out of that i doubt it.
 
I think Microsoft tried their hand at it by introducing the Zune which was just an iPod but by Microsoft. They didn't sell all too well, because honestly.. who's still talking about them? They took a gamble and I think they maybe would have introduced a handheld if the Zune did well, but it didn't really, they were way too anal about the Zune Marketplace and what you could and couldn't do with it.
 
I think they will make one, not for a few years but eventually they'd have to to keep up with the others.
I personally hope they don't coz thats another game console/handheld I need to buy ;3;

they'd also have to figure out how to create something powerful yet slim enough for people to carry around.
 
Oh, i'm sure. If Microsoft is smart, they would. (money wise) They have a bunch of fans that i'm sure, would be glad to buy an hand-held version of the Xbox. The companies (cept really the Wii because it came out with the moving type deal first) are copying off eachother like with the PS3 move and, Xbox kinetic (like the Wii) etc etc so, I don't think it'd differ from your typical handheld thing cept with exclusives and what have you. Maybe in the future? If there's a high enough demand without a doubt, Microsoft should.

Edit: I hear that they have tried already before eh? Hmm, idunno maybe thats the reason why they haven't tried a handheld again.
 
I see little reason at the moment as to why Microsoft wants to release any Xbox handheld when they primarily focus on the Xbox 360 home console while there doesn't appear to be much demand for a handheld at all. Can Microsoft make much of an impact in the handheld sector? That's also something you can think about. Sony and Nintendo are already deeply entrenched in that market already and the iPhone is getting some scary levels of success. Is there any room left for Microsoft and is there an audience significant enough to support an Xbox handheld. It's uncertain, but if I were Microsoft I wouldn't bother with one anytime soon.

Channadian Maple said:
I think Microsoft tried their hand at it by introducing the Zune which was just an iPod but by Microsoft. They didn't sell all too well, because honestly.. who's still talking about them?
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It also speaks volumes when a lot of people on this side of the Atlantic have never heard of the Zune before, let alone own one. Zune's never seen the light of day over here, so I can see Microsoft being very wary with portable devices now.
 
Dance In The Dark said:
no, because the epic XBOX provides can't be on a handheld. Handhelds just ruin a company's rep in my opinion. They almost always have terrible graphics. Boring games. And chiztastic voice acting.


If Microsoft/xbobx is smart, they'll keep to the consoles instead of handhelds.
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I disagree about ruining a company's rep-I love Sony all the more because I love my PSP and the games on it. I could probably go on a long "why I love my PSP" thing, but yeah xD

I never knew Microsoft considered doing a handheld before. I wonder how it would've been developed.

DS has SD cards, PSP has UMDs, so XBOX could have, uh, USBs maybe? xD
 
i desperately wanted a zune when they were going to release them here, but they kept pushing the date back and back and in the end i gave up. ):
 
My friend had a Zune and I used it a few times. It didn't do anything an iPod couldn't as far as I could tell and it wasn't as user friendly as an iPod.

Even if there was some sort of XBox handheld, I usually stick to what I know. I've always had Sony consoles and Nintendo handhelds so I'm not going to blow a lot of money on something from Microsoft. :gasp: I think that if one did come out, it would come out with next generation of handheld devices.
 
Fleur said:
It also speaks volumes when a lot of people on this side of the Atlantic have never heard of the Zune before, let alone own one. Zune's never seen the light of day over here, so I can see Microsoft being very wary with portable devices now.
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Wow really? You've never even heard of it? xD That's excellent. It was first released in Canada and then a few months later in the US but after the initial release, never heard from it again. Although, I know that when I had my 360, it operated with the Zune Network so there's still some hint of it out there..
 
Actually, it looks like you can get a Zune over here - just did a quick search. :wacky:

I'm not actually sure whether or not it was officially released over here, but I know it pretty much failed anyway. No one I know of know anything about the Zune, so I imagine it must have flopped pretty miserably here. I know this probably won't happen with an Xbox handheld though, as the name is very recognisable, but I really don't think Microsoft seems too interested in the handheld market at the moment.

EDIT: Actually yeah, I was initially right. It was never officially released here...yet.
 
I think it's inevitable to happen, eventually. The 3DS is taking a step forward with the whole 3D handheld shizz and if rumours are true about how much power the PSP2 has then I can only see it being a matter of time before Micro$oft try to start cashing in from handhelds too.
 
Well, I see comparisons between apples and oranges. The Zune is a music/video player, like the iPod. A handheld system is a game system that is portable. Even though Zune is a Microsoft product, its not a handheld game system, just a player. And being a Zune owner, the Zune is way easier to use and sync music to. I'm not nuts about Microsoft, but even they're better than Apple. (y)

I also saw comments about handhelds hurting a company. Well, last I knew, Nintendo was doing pretty damn well with their handhelds. And this goes back to the late 80's when the original GameBoy was around. Considering Nintendo was outclassed by Sony during the Nintendo64 and Game Cube years, the GameBoy Advanced and Color picked up the slack for the console not doing as well. Just my 2 cents.

If Microsoft can produce a handheld that doesn't have an 80% failure rate and has a good game selection, then I don't see it hurting them really. It would be tough to get people to lay down their DS's and PSP's, but I think it would do pretty good overall. But that all depends if they actually consider serious production for the product. Otherwise there isn't much since thinking "what if?". :lew:
 
lol, I guess that's it then :lew:

Thanks Ryan ^^

So XBOX ultimately went towards the mobile route, alright. I guess that's as close as we can get to having mobile games from Japan getting here, maybe...
 
I don't think it will happen because:

1). I don't really know that many XBox fans who have an XBox handheld at the top of their list.

2). They can just release any new handheld under the MS label and appeal to a larger market.

3). With the console failure rate, the last thing they need is to worry about handhelds.
 
No, because their console sucks. They don't need to shun the handheld world by bringing that garbage which has red rings of death, blue screens of death, the Glitch Killer and many others.

But they might reconsider since the Wii has been number 1 since its release (only took a year to completely shun any other system. The Wii is so popular, they ran out of them for a year!) and the DS as second.
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I mean the Wii as of recently, has broken records with its sales. The Xbox since its release, has only sold 50 million consoles worldwide, while the Wii was unable to supply hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people with consoles because how poplar it is.

Wii - 70.93 million
Xbox - 50 Million (only 30 million users!)
Ds -- "As of March 31, 2010, the DS further cemented its place as the top-selling handheld platform of all time by selling 27.11 million units worldwide during the fiscal year, totaling 128.9 million units life-to-date. Of that, some 17.82 million were DSi's and 2.08 million were DSi XL's."

And with the cruddy performance of the Zune, people would buy their handheld and then start a war over it because it was built wrong (some stupid ring of death or screen of death)....

So! I don't think they should ever touch a handheld system, if they want to keep what money they are making. :/
3). With the console failure rate, the last thing they need is to worry about handhelds.
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This is what I meant but in lesser words. xD
 
At one point, Halo was going to be ported to a Nintendo handheld but Microsoft decided against it. At any rate, I don't believe Microsoft NEED to develop a handheld, but due to the fact that they're moneygrubbers, they just may in the future.
 
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