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I have a feeling the Xbox Ally is a sign of MS's new business strategy for Xbox on the hardware end of things, where the Xbox branding will be licensed out to other devices made by other manufacturers and letting them handle the burden of manufacturing & distribution.
1.) The official Xbox hardware, divided between the budget option & premium option, which will be produced mainly for the Xbox faithful according to demand in order to avoid over-production.
2.) The licensed hardware that carries the Xbox branding, but is handled by another company. In this case ASUS is handling the production of a very high end Xbox branded handheld PC to compete with the Steam Deck & other portable gaming PC's/streaming handhelds.
3.) The Xbox services that, in their own words, allows virtually any PC, phone or tablet to "become an Xbox"
It's almost like Xbox was looking at how RetroArch is put on any & everything and thought "how can we do something like that, but more integrated." In that case though, I think a lot more development resources should be put into the development of a kind of "Xbox OS" similar to what Valve/Steam has. Just sell the OS for a cost with a free 3 months of Game Pass so people can turn their Wi-Fi ready raspberry pis into low-spec Xbox's.
1.) The official Xbox hardware, divided between the budget option & premium option, which will be produced mainly for the Xbox faithful according to demand in order to avoid over-production.
2.) The licensed hardware that carries the Xbox branding, but is handled by another company. In this case ASUS is handling the production of a very high end Xbox branded handheld PC to compete with the Steam Deck & other portable gaming PC's/streaming handhelds.
3.) The Xbox services that, in their own words, allows virtually any PC, phone or tablet to "become an Xbox"
It's almost like Xbox was looking at how RetroArch is put on any & everything and thought "how can we do something like that, but more integrated." In that case though, I think a lot more development resources should be put into the development of a kind of "Xbox OS" similar to what Valve/Steam has. Just sell the OS for a cost with a free 3 months of Game Pass so people can turn their Wi-Fi ready raspberry pis into low-spec Xbox's.
