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yo_john117 on 28 December 2011
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DarkDesent666 said:
1. MS sucks at making hardware, their handhelds would probably break if you tossed it on your bed.

That's not necessarily true. The 360 is the only MS device that had bad hardware and that was only due to them rushing it on the market sooner than it needed too. The original Xbox was a solid rock.


2. MS has next to no studios and can't even get a decent line up of 360 games they'd never be able to manage 2 gaming devices (even sony had trouble)

Actually they have 14 studios and most of those are doing unnanounced projects so they could very easily support a handheld.


3. Not a single one of MSes higher selling franchises are portable friendly

Not true at all. If MS were to make a handheld it would probably be more like the Vita in specs so they could easily have almost every high selling franchise on their handheld.


4. Japan is the biggest market for portables, you know the one MS fails in.

It's definitely not the biggest market for portables. The US is beating it by over 20 million handhelds between the DS and PSP and the US is MS's biggest market for gaming.

http://www.vgchartz.com/weekly/40895/Japan/  http://www.vgchartz.com/weekly/40895/Japan/


5. Nintendo dominates the handheld world and pretty much always has, Sony made some headway but MS would never be able too.

Not necessarily. That's what everyone said about the Xbox...and look at how things are now (although I'm inclined to agree it probably wouldn't work for them)


6. It would weaken their promotion of their phones

Uh no. Phones and handhelds have different markets.

If your going to make a list of why there should be no Xbox handheld at least try to keep your bias out of it.

 

Anyways I don't think there will be a Xbox handheld because it really doesn't make sense. I think they will just keep with their Windows 7 Phone's.