Gaming fans are already slating Xbox’s plan to release a handheld console to rival the Nintendo Switch 2 later this year.
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At the start of the year, Nintendo confirmed it would be releasing the successor to the Switch at some point this year with more details set to be revealed during a Direct presentation next month.
However yesterday (March 11) it was reported that Xbox was also planning on releasing a handheld console later this year to compete with the Switch 2 – and fans don’t think it’s going to go well.
According to the article published by Windows Central, Microsoft is working with an unnamed PC company to create the console, which will run Xbox Game Pass as well as other gaming systems like Steam. “I’m baffled why anyone would have faith about this,” wrote one fan on Reddit. “Microsoft is a company that has shown the inability to compete with Steam on its own operating system, the inability to compete with Sony in the ‘high end’ console market, and now they want to enter the handheld game against both Steam AND Nintendo? This is a disaster waiting to happen.”
