Friend of the site Jez Corden has reported today that Xbox’s native handheld device, which he had reported on before, has been delayed to focus on Windows PC performance on handheld devices.
According to Jez’s report on Windows Central, the Xbox team has delayed their internal work on an Xbox native handheld. Workers will shift to focusing on fixing Windows 11’s performance on handheld devices. Those are devices like the Lenovo Legion Go and ROG Ally, the former of which now has a SteamOS variant that performs “better” than the Windows version. Jez also reports that the Xbox Series X successor has continued in full, with funding and a release timeline set.
We reported on the Project Kennan Xbox-branded ASUS ROG Ally a few months back:
Looks like the United States FCC have accidentally leaked some images of Xbox’s “Project Kennan”, a new device from partner ASUS, which appears to be, in essence, the ROG Ally 2.
Project Kennan was first reported by Windows Central as a part of Microsoft’s first tentative steps into new hardware, sort of. Rather than a purely native Xbox handheld, this would be a partner-led device with ASUS, an existing manufacturer of the pretty great ROG Ally, a Windows 11 handheld gaming PC.
These images appear to have been leaked by the FCC and were spotted by the folks over at Videocardz.com. Per their report, it was 91mobiles who initially discovered the entries. There are apparently two versions, one comes in black with an Xbox button, an 36W AMD 8-core Ryzen Z2 Extreme and 64Gb of LPDDR5X memory.
The other is white, loses the Xbox button and supports an AMD 4-core 20W chip. The memory specs of the latter device are currently unknown.
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