According to a new rumor, Microsoft Xbox would be working on new hardware that would be “unexpected”, therefore perhaps something other than a console or a device properly dedicated to video games.
This is what the usual Nick ” Shpeshal Nick ” Baker reports, now a fixed presence among the rumors relating to video games, being often a source of rumors which, however, have also proved correct in the past. Therefore, although it is not a totally reliable source, it can be taken into consideration given the previous ones, while taking everything with great caution.
During the new installment of the XboxEra podcast, Nick reported that “Xbox has some hardware they want to showcase, but it’s in a different area than what people might expect.” All this may suggest the famous dongle or stick for Xbox Game Pass and Xbox Cloud that Microsoft has been planning for some time now, according to various rumors.
(Rumor) Shpeshal Nick says “Xbox has some hardward that they they want to show that they’re going to show that falls into a different bucket then people are expecting”.
“It maybe coming out this year, but it’s not definitely happening this year… pic.twitter.com/yBvd7T9BJh
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The idea is that Microsoft intends to launch a device in the style of Amazon Fire Stick to be easily applied to any display, able to connect to the Xbox Cloud and thus allow the use of games from the Xbox Game Pass catalog in cloud gaming on any screen. without having to go through a console, a PC, a smartphone or a tablet.
The issue had been mentioned by Microsoft itself some time ago when it talked about integrating Xbox Game Pass into TVs , although it is not certain that it really intends to launch a low-cost device that could represent some kind of competition for its own consoles. . However, we have long seen that the approach of the Redmond company is now different from that of a normal console manufacturer, aiming above all at the expansion of the user base of its ecosystem, so the idea is far from absurd. , we’ll see.