@saint-george: That doesn’t track logically.

@saint-george: How will watching an Xbox showcase tell me anything about Sony?

Look on the bright side: at least they're not Xbox

The money environment surrounding it.

Costs are high, returns are low.

The Spencer era has managed a world’s tour of mileage for not being Don Mattrick.

Change should have happened years ago. Spencer was in the room for all the missteps of Xbox One, announced the $499 price, and floundered as Xbox bounced around on what to do about garnering AAA talent at their studios.

Long overdue.

Tone deaf much?

Nothing gets the people going like Trump-speak and “live service.”

I want a handheld with a dock option to increase performance for couch gaming.

Otherwise I’ll probably pass. I’ve no time as is for Nintendo games and that’s all I dare but their consoles for.

@osan0: The only source I can remember off the top of my head accrediting the rumor is Moore’s Law Is Dead, but my recollection around the intro of the SD was it being accepted as true.

@osan0: It’s a long-standing rumor that it was a design by MS engineers in tandem with AMD and shelved when execs decided there wasn’t enough upside to chasing the handheld market (imagine a $400 Xbox alongside a $299 XboxS and $500 XboxX).

Valve dabbles in hardware but few believe they had retained on-staff someone with the engineering pedigree to develop a chip of this kind. So it’s believed that they came across the SOC, asked MS if they could use it without incurring a fee, and MS allowed them to since they were of the mind that more handheld PCs was better for everyone.

I believe it. Steamdeck's SOC was developed by MS, now they're realizing the handheld game market is where the next generation of players is going to be sourced.

Will it ever make it to market? Who knows.