Microsoft has reportedly canceled its in-house Xbox handheld to focus on the newly announced ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X. It makes sense for Microsoft to avoid muddling its long-rumored and ...

TL;DR: Microsoft has cancelled its plans for a native Xbox handheld console, focusing instead on the Xbox Ally and Ally X handheld PCs developed with ASUS. These devices aim to deliver a console ...

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Instead, the first real novel Xbox device isn’t made by Microsoft at all. Asus is designing a new handheld that looks like an Xbox controller split in half with an added screen.

It shows the base Xbox Ally will be priced at €599, while the Xbox Ally X will come in at €899. This puts the standard model at around $699/£519 and the premium Ally X version at $1,050/£779.

Dimensionally, the two handheld consoles are nearly identical, with the Xbox Ally X being ever so slightly heavier at 715g, compared to 678g on the ASUS ROG Ally X.

From questions of cannibalization to degrading the value of all of gaming, Xbox Game Pass has been zeroed in on as a potential symptom of last week's massive gaming lay offs.

For now, none of this is confirmed. But the Asus ROG Xbox Ally X and ROG Xbox Ally, plus that streamlined version of Windows, definitely indicate a new direction for Xbox. We'll be watching closely.

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