This week Xbox introduced a brand new strategic partnership with chip maker AMD to ship “cutting-edge graphics” to “future Xbox consoles.”
Xbox President Sarah Bond made the announcement in a video posted to X that was large on hype and quick on particulars, however we did be taught a number of small tidbits. We now know for positive {that a} new Xbox console is coming… ultimately. Bond confirmed that the console can be powered by AMD silicon and can have backward compatibility with gamers’ present libraries of video games. Due to Bond’s video, we additionally know the next-gen Xbox console gained’t be “locked to a single store or tied to one device.” That positive makes the Xbox sound extra like a gaming PC than a conventional console.
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That is a part of Microsoft’s all-of-the-above strategy to Xbox and gaming, with the corporate embracing cloud gaming, an ASUS partnership, and probably even third-party gadgets.
The subsequent-gen Xbox console, the successor to the Xbox Sequence X/S, is rumored to be coming in 2027. And that’s not the one new machine Microsoft is cooking up for the prolonged Xbox household.
So, in addition to a brand new Xbox console, what different Xbox {hardware} is within the works?
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The brand new Xbox Ally handhelds are coming in 2025
The brand new Xbox handhelds are additionally coming quickly.
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Microsoft has already revealed the 2025 launch of the ROG Xbox Ally X and the ROG Xbox Ally. Relating to a possible launch date, up to now the Microsoft web site merely says “Holiday 2025” and “Email When Available,” however some leakers counsel preorders might begin as early as August. By way of pricing, Microsoft has been quiet, possible due to tariff-related uncertainty.
The brand new handheld gaming consoles are a part of a collaboration with Asus, which makes the ROG Ally.
Players will be capable to play PC video games in addition to their Xbox favorites on the brand new handhelds. The Xbox Ally X comes loaded with 24GB of RAM and 1TB of storage, whereas the Xbox Ally comes with 16GB of RAM and 512GB of storage.
Is an Xbox VR headset additionally coming quickly?
Again in 2024, Meta introduced that it might enable third events to construct gadgets with the Quest 3 working system. On the time, Zuckerberg additionally teased a partnership with Microsoft to ship an Xbox Meta Quest VR headset. As Laptop computer Magazine stories, Xbox is ready “to build upon it’s (sic) partnership with Meta following Xbox Cloud Gaming’s arrival to Horizon OS by developing a limited edition Meta Quest headset.”
Rumors additionally level to a attainable 2025 launch of a potential Xbox VR headset, although that is removed from confirmed.
Like we mentioned, Microsoft may be very a lot taking an all-of-the-above strategy to gaming, and we aren’t mad about it.
