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Xbox Report: Handheld Plans, Next-Gen Coming 2027 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.13.25
Thu, 13 Mar 2025
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Chapter 1: What are the details on Xbox's handheld plans?
Today in the nerdy news you need to know about, we have even more details on Xbox's handheld plans. The Oblivion remake could be sooner than you think, and Xbox has a big new feature you're going to love to hear about. One, two, three. Barrett, they're all Xbox stories. Change the wall. We'll evolve this and more because this is kind of funny games daily.
what's up everybody welcome to kind of funny games daily oops all xbox edition for thursday march 13th 2025 i'm one of your hosts greg miller alongside forbes 30 under 30 aka the new york game awards nominated aka makeup boy blessing eddie oye junior i don't know if you can call me that i don't know i don't know that works
You're always making things up. It makes sense. I'm always lying. I do like lying. That is a good call. That is a good call. Good morning. How's it going? It's good.
How are you, Buzz?
Why?
Because, like, here's the thing. I like talking about Xbox.
Yeah.
I'm sorry. Our audience, you know, knows us and loves us and all that stuff, right? But I feel like when people see the Xbox background, they don't want to see me and you. Ah, okay. You know? They want us to call up Harris. They want us to call up Phil Spencer. What's your Phil Spencer impression? Yeah. I love PlayStation. Gamers. We believe that it's best when you play everywhere.
He sounds way too nerdy.
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Chapter 2: What is Project Kenan?
Today we're brought to you by Built Rewards and Stash, but we'll tell you about that later. For now, let's begin the show with what is and forever will be the Roper Report. Time for some news. Six items on the Roper Report.
A baker's dozen.
Let's get into that good shit, all right? First off, let's start right here. Project Kenan or Kenan? It's spelt Kenan. Yeah. I don't like that. Kenan Thompson. Like, come on. Let's show them all that respect. It's not how you spell Kenan, though. But it's a code name. Just call it whatever the fuck you want. They should have called it Kenan. I'm going to Phil Spencer. Phil, you fucked up.
Project Kenan is a much better name than Kenan.
Kenan is obviously a reference to something that I don't understand. Is it? It must be. They don't just pull project names out of their asses except for when they do. You don't just pull Kennan out your ass. It's Google Kennan. George Frost Kennan. He's a historian and former counselor of the United States Department of State.
That's not it. They don't want that.
He was best known as an advocate of a policy of containment of Soviet expansion during the Cold War. So the handheld... He's anti-Kami. The handheld... So the Cold War is between Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo. Sure, sure. And the handheld is going to contain the expansion of Nintendo Switch 2. So that's why they call it Project Kennen. I don't like it.
We could have done better. Number one, Xbox handheld Project Kennen is reportedly being made by Asus. This is Alessio Palumbo over at WCCF Tech. And we had this conversation before. It's the ROG ally is supposed to be ROG. Is ASUS supposed to be ASUS?
That one I'm not as sure of. I feel like that one you can pronounce it as however you want.
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Chapter 3: How does the Xbox handheld compare to the Steam Deck?
I'm very interested in the rumors of... The article we just read that it's going to be the Xbox interface. It's going to unify Xbox and Windows. I don't know if it was this report. I don't remember because I just read it. But yesterday, reading a bunch of stuff, that apparently the rumor is that it's going to also do... You can boot Steam on it.
You can boot other OSs on it, which is exactly what I want. Right now, it is that thing of...
hey here's the the avowed codes coming okay great it's going to be games with windows great wait can i link it to my steam deck i gotta go into desk anytime it's like going to desktop mode to do it i've done desktop mode stuff on my steam deck it's not hard i know but it's more the thing of i i as a non-pc gamer really don't have that setup ready to go of like oh here's my mouse and my keyboard and what i want to do and like nor do i have the time for the most part i understand that sounds ridiculous but again like
You want it to be ready and set to go. I just want this to be as turnkey as possible. This is why I'm a console gamer. I just want to turn it on and have it work. And I know PC gaming, there's always going to be things that won't do that exactly. But this idea of, cool, Xbox Game Pass is right there.
Like, right now on my Steam Deck, what I do for the most part, right, is, you know, Xbox Cloud Game. I have those shortcuts through XP Play, right? the remote play cloud streaming service that you can buy off of Steam for five bucks and then it links all your stuff. I use that and I'll cloud boot Starfield or whatever I want to play. Forza when Ben wants to play that.
And I can remote play to my Xbox, but lots of times my Xbox gets disconnected for a second PlayStation for some reason or some goofy shit I'm doing. So... Long story short, this sounds great. I want a handheld Xbox. If this is going to be the easiest way to get a handheld Xbox until 2027, apparently, when there's a new Xbox Series X, for lack of a better term, and an official Xbox handheld, okay.
Does that work for you even if it doesn't play Xbox console games? Hey, this is Xbox PC. You're maybe going to get the console games on the 2027 thing, but for this, you are linking to your... It's the same thing as opening the Xbox app on your PC. Are you okay with that? A thousand percent.
Especially, you know, I was so nice to have that Razer Blade, right? The Razer Blade 18 laptop for my avowed review. And the thing that I love so much about Xbox is the Xbox ecosystem is this interface that just works. You know what I mean? Like, it's a joke, obviously, but...
It seamlessly does it of I'm playing Avowed on the Razer Blade and I stop and I go to... And I'm playing through the PC version of it on Razer. And then I go over to my Xbox Series X and there's my save and everything's there. And you go all around. The way Xbox currently works, it's going to work...
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Chapter 4: What can we expect from the Xbox next-gen console in 2027?
But I guess as we get further, I think those prices are getting up higher and higher, probably because of tariffs, probably because of inflation, probably because of many different aspects of it. But I think part of me was hoping that, alright, if I'm getting something that's going to be comparable to a Steam Deck, we'd see that price come down a little bit over the years.
So to look at $500, $600, I'm like... Oh, yeah, there's no way I'm paying that out of pocket.
I still feel it. It's just, again, I guess we should throw open.
Okay, $399. So, yeah, it was expensive for the lower end. That means the high end was, I can look this up. I want to say it was $800, wasn't it? It was rough, yeah.
I remember Jen had to, like, push me. I don't like spending money on myself. So she was very much like, don't do it.
And I guess what that comes back to.
Right now it's $649 for a one terabyte OLED Steam Deck.
Yeah, so I think it probably is more so just of a competition thing for me then of, well, I own a Steam Deck. I want an Xbox handheld. How much utility am I going to get from the Asus one that's coming out this year versus waiting two years?
To jump in here in the live chat, Calv says, the Asus handheld isn't going to be what Greg wants. The Xbox integration will be surface level. I want to be clear that it's not so much I turn it on and it's like, oh, it's an Xbox. I mean, I'm just excited that I can use natively the Xbox PC Game Pass stuff and have Steam and have, I would assume, other stuff that I don't use. Epic maybe or the...
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Chapter 5: How will the Xbox handheld integrate with existing Xbox services?
Because if you think about it, Phil has kind of already hinted that they're not really subsidizing these things anymore. So I do expect it to be expensive. And I also think with this new multi-platform strategy, the handheld is probably going to be more desirable than the console, in my opinion, unless you're tied into Game Pass or something like that. You know what I mean?
So I'm not expecting it to be cheap. It's probably going to be pricey. But I think 2027 gives them time for more of a proof of concept. Let's see what this one does. Let's see what the Switch 2 does from a performance standpoint, because I'm assuming the Switch 2 is probably going to use some form of DLSS. So I'm assuming whatever this Xbox handheld will do some form of FSR as well.
So to kind of increase performance and then have better battery life, things like that. So there's still a lot of questions. you know, to ask, you know, that still need to be answered about this. And I think 2025 is just step one in a long form process, which is probably why we're not getting Xbox's version of his handheld until the next gen, which we're assuming now is 2027.
yeah i the way the way i see it i i i see the xbox handheld just being the the premium product right i think paris makes a good point of like this thing could even be just as if not more expensive than the actual xbox console and i think that better fucking be as powerful then yeah well it's not gonna be as powerful that's the thing where if you can't do that i know but i do think that like i i do think that makes this make more sense of hey let's get out something let's i think
Best case scenario, based on this reporting, if this Asus thing can come out at $500, and it's crazy to say this, be the lower entry point into having an Xbox handheld, I think that then allows you to look at the official, official Xbox handheld and go, all right, give this all the bells and whistles. Give it the OLED. Give it everything.
And it's never going to be as powerful as the Xbox Series X2, because that's just impossible. But if you can make it the most refined premium handheld possible and put it out for $800... Like, you're selling that to your most core audience, but also the value could be there if you put it there.
And again, for me personally, like, I know, Paris, your Slack and what you said here is to wait until 2027. I'm done waiting. I'm ready to upgrade because I'm already using it so much. So to upgrade now and then in a year and a half, two years, have a handheld that's doing more differently, it's more connected, I wouldn't be upset about that personally. Yeah.
Yeah, don't get me wrong. I mean, you know, I'm a tech junkie. So like you said, I'm probably buying a day one anyways. But I think for the average person, if you already have a Legion 2 or a Rogue Ally or something, you may not necessarily need to run out and go get this one. Or if you love your Steam Deck, you probably just stick with your Steam Deck in the short term.
And again, wait until 2027 to see whatever this Xbox branded handheld is going to be.
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