Please God NOOOO!

[Fordgasm]

A couple of years ago there were talks of MS bringing a handheld to the market.
Well these talks are heating up again and looks like the "Xboy" may become a sad but true reality.
MS should concentrate on getting 360's on store shelves before talking about this Crap again.

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/683/683783p1.html

[Perfect Sin]

This has already been posted.

http://ps3forums.com/viewtopic.php?t=14074

[vorian]

If this is true, MS would have factored it in to the Vista-360 business model years ago. I doubt it would be an 'on the fly' type of decision. They also have a lot of experience in handheld device connectivity and applications/OS's, so it's not like they would be as green as first timers Sony with the PSP(firmware updates, lack of original native games) in that regard. I don't mean that as a bad thing in Sony's light they have done extremely well with PSP and have shifted games and many, many movies to the platform.

Thats the problem I see with the xPod, MS doesn't own any media intrests like a movie/music catalogue or have a proprietry disc drive to make profits from.

Nintendo has it right though, when was the last time a Nintendo handheld needed a firmware upgrade, or had a lack of original games?

If MS released a handheld that had at least a 5GB HDD, wirelessly ran a Live Arcade client, could seemlessly connect to Vista, played multiple audio and movie formats and was say$150.00 - $199.00 Australian then I might be in. Just dreaming there

Here's the article the IGN rumour is from - http://www.businessweek.com/technolo...gn_id=rss_tech

[Fordgasm]

Ooops sorry my bad lock it up and throw it away.

[bosbeest]

no just 1 sec...

why the hell is this thread called: PLEASE GOD NOOOO!

[turkmen117]

no just 1 sec...

why the hell is this thread called: PLEASE GOD NOOOO!

because fordgasm would rather want microsoft to put more xbox 360's on the shelves instead of making a handheld console

[sevendesigns]

Nintendo has it right though, when was the last time a Nintendo handheld needed a firmware upgrade, or had a lack of original games?

Yeah, but when was the last time Nintendo released a new handheld that wasn't just a revision of an older model besides the DS? I just hate the hand held gaming world.

[Keesie]

and uh , why would a handheld with no interface or something like that need a firmware upgrade?? And Nintendo has always used cartridges... with cartridges you can't controll which one is illegal.

[Lp Chris XII]

This has already been posted.