Not like Xbots bought it 🥲

Is MS going to announce the handheld today or something? That's what these insiders are insinuating lol on top Phil liking those posts.

Now this is very good news to me. Tom Henderson is one of the most reliable insider journalists, up there with Jason Schreier in terms of accuracy. If he is hinting at the rumored Xbox handheld having dual layer Xbox + Windows OS, that means it very likely does have dual layer OS. And because the docking handheld and the next-gen Xbox home console are reportedly designed as a shared platform, the home console should also have dual layer OS.

When they make a physical edition, I'll buy it.

Would dual layer have any technical downsides?

Well they did market this podcast as an update on the future of Xbox. We also heard that Phil Spencer, during his internal conference with Microsoft Gaming employees, said they would continue making Xbox hardware. So it would make sense for Xbox to lessen the negative impact of this partial multiplatform news by announcing early details about their next gen hardware plans, be they the rumored official Xbox produced docking handheld and next gen home console, and/or the rumored 3rd party OEM Xbox consoles.

Confirming next gen hardware will have dual layer Xbox OS + Windows OS would go a long way towards assuaging my concerns about Xbox's future, if next gen Xbox is basically just a PC that can also run 5 generations of Xbox games, Xbox's biggest issue for me, lack of ports, will no longer be an issue since basically any game will be playable on the Windows OS via options like Steam, Epic Games Store, and GOG, even if the developers choose not to make an optimized bespoke port for the Xbox OS layer.

@ice thoughts?

Yeah he's too dumb for that. He can pretty much only play Halo Wars, which I heard is RTS for dents.

If they treat it like Xbox 360 BC games, where when you open an Xbox 360 game on XB1 or Xbox Series it boots up the 360 OS inside of a window within the modern Xbox OS, there may be some RAM overhead issues from running both OS at once, but they could also design it so that opening one OS closes the other, removing those RAM overhead issues. Or they could simply have more system RAM than previous Xbox consoles, both some GB of GDDR6 for handling the dual layer OS and some GB of GDDR6X for the GPU. If they go with extra system RAM they should be able to run both OS at once allowing easy and fast switching between the two.