Comment on Microsoft and Asus announce two Xbox Ally handhelds with new Xbox full-screen experience
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoThey have given up on their own handheld. And why wouldn’t you prefer the PC library when it’s so much larger? The appeal to this device at this point is that the new UI is better for the handheld use case than desktop Windows.
k1ck455kc@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Its not that i dont prefer the PC library, its that there are already dozens of other handhelds that play PC games already.
So then the UI is the sole reason people should want this device?
I see no reason why this UI shouldnt also work on the plethora of other windows handhelds in the market currently. This leaves nothing new for this device to offer… Unless its really cheap.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
At least at first, it will be the only handheld running this version of Windows. So maybe after a year or two, it won’t be all that unique, true, but a year or two is a long time at the rate these handhelds are advancing.
k1ck455kc@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
What a weak sell then, i understand your point, i just wish Xbox came out swinging with a compatibility layer for the Xbox game library. A portable device with that capability would have the potential to put them back on top.
Instead we get a less bad version of windows, that will likely be inferior to its direct competitor anyways(steamOS). I see no reason to believe it wont be.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Though not officially announced, signs of that are appearing already, including a hint or two in the speech of the conference.