Why isn't there an Xbox handheld?

[DarkDesent666]

yo_john117 said:

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.

1. Actually the zune and xbox original both have higher then average failrates though not as horrible as the 360 and I do admit I exaggurated. Though quality design and hardware is more important in a handheld then console. 

2. Two of those 14 are for phone games and Sony has 31, Nintendo has nearly 40 also the majority of those unkowns are kinect games, and 12 studios even on 2 year schedual per game (which is fast) means only 6 games a year, spilt that over 2 consoles and that's 3 games a year. Also most of their studios aren't that talented and are working on kinect games. 14 studios is not nearly enough for a console maker to support 2 consoles.

3. I addressed this with the last guy. I never said they couldn't have it I said their not handheld friendly and even with the second analogue shooters aren't. It just means their games won't be as good as the console ones but that can still hinder sales. 

4. Opps only compared the psp sales (which japan has the most) even so when you add up the console sales NA is only about 10 million ahead of japan region, so with MS failing in japan they'd lose 25-50% of potential sales right off the bat 

5. MS is only making a profit now because Sony messed up horribly and made sacrifises for blu ray, I don't see nintendo doing that badly and even if they did Sony would probably be able to wedge MS out.

6. One of the phone selling points (among the less well informed) is that it's an all in one device and if you have it you don't need a handheld because it plays game too and that it will replace handhelds. Release a portable after backing phones would make people realize it's not true and destroy those selling points.