Talking to BusinessWeek magazine earlier this week, Xbox head honcho Peter Moore made some allusions to the possible future development of an Xbox handheld device.
BusinessWeek apparently has it on authority that Microsoft is sick of all the supposed "iPod killers" that are appearing on the market, failing to topple the iPod, and disappearing into the consumer tech ether.
Jay Green over at BusinessWeek asks Peter Moore directly how their device would theoretically differentiate itself from the rest of the pack? Moore responds, "It can't just be our version of the iPod." Microsoft would also probably use the Xbox brand to market the gadget. "I think the brand is an opportunity," Moore says.
BusinessWeek goes on to state that "in addition to playing music and videos, a Microsoft device would include games."
Which is sufficiently vague enough to be slightly interesting to any budding futurists, but at the same time is not actually telling us anything much at all.
Well, we’re not sure if we can read anything into this vague rumour initiated by some hack on BusinessWeek, but we were sure intrigued when we came across the above artist’s impression of an Xbox handheld over on
PlayBomb.
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