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New rumor out that the Surface team will be designing the next Xbox hardware. This raises a lot of interesting questions for me:

1. Will they stick with AMD, or consider a different hardware vendor? Microsoft has an extremely lucrative relationship with Intel, and now that intel has been making a hard push into the GPU and AI space that could be an intriguing option.

2. Will Xbox go back to being one device, or will it balloon into many devices?

3. If it’s many devices, will one of those devices be mobile/handheld? Or perhaps something hybrid like a switch?

The third one in particular is really intriguing to me. They could mitigate a lot of the negatives of going third party for a lot of their games by having the option of a hybrid console like a switch or steamdeck. Frankly, I would vastly prefer something like that to an expensive and bulky gaming laptop, and that would do a lot to keep me in the Xbox ecosystem