I wouldn't trust any hardware built by Microsoft even if it was a handheld. Microsoft has already shown how bad they are with hardware with the Xbox 360. The PSP and DS will always dominate no matter what Micrsoft does.

zune anybody

But they don't cover shipping costs. On the long run, Xbox 360 has cost me more than my PS3, since I've had to pay two years of xbox LIVE already and to ship two failed HDDs, not to mention a scratched copy of Rainbow Six.

I would never buy a portable Xbox, it would be like a buying a Hand Grenade that randomly decides to explode.

sorry, hand grenades have already been inveneted

lmfao, ok let's continue this... 2 GIGS memory stick for 300 bucks...

i would be interested to see what they could do

im sure they would implement Live well and they would learn from Sony's mistake and stick on 2 analogue sticks

plus since technology has advanced and compressed it would be interesting to see excellent graphics on the go (well, even better than PSP)

but i don't see how it could prove a success revenue wise, it would be too hard for them to compete with Sony and Nintendo

Ninty has the casuals covered and Sony has the whole media-box blockbuster handheld games thing covered

there's no market for MS, so i think they'll probably stay out of this one

be a nice little gadget id get one for sure but that could maybe change if they dont have every thing plus what the psp has but two thumbsticks would be nice imagine halo:portable whatever 0_0

SORRY MENT TO REPLY TO THE DUDE UNDER YOU...

What about a portable Wii?

You could easily fit something as powerful as the Wii hardware in a portable.
Look at the iPhone
It has a faster GPU than the Wii, a 16Gb hard disk, loads more memory, and the CPU is roughly the same - maybe a little bit slower.

I don't know what you'd do about the motion control though...?
I suppose a lot of the best Wii games don't really need it. Brawl, Kart, Galaxy.
Just map the motions to button presses.

Does that mean that the iPhone is a current gen console then?
It stands toe-to-toe with the Wii specs-wise and came out "this generation" and it has a cool gimick (touch screen motions - flicking through album covers anyone?).

EDIT: Should we add iPod touch and the iPhone into the console race?

Beat out BOTH Sony AND Nintendo in the hand held market??

C'mon,let's be realistic here;Nintendo has an absolutely HUMONGOUS presence when it comes to the hand held gaming market,and in the history of hand held gaming,only 1 other hand held platform has been able to sell 30million+ against a Nintendo hand held;And that hand held,is known as the Sony PsP.

So forgive me if I have my doubts regarding Microsoft overtaking Nintendo and Sony in the hand held market

P.R.O.D.
Portable Ring Of Death

Please don´t let it happen! Save the money instead and bring us Xbox Vista (thats what I call the next xbox,hehe)with kick-ass Dx10 power or something! Let DS and PSP be, theres no room for a third in the handheld market imo!!

and if you get stranded up in the mountains you will have something to keep you warm or to start a fire with

looks like a win win

best comment so far:
Hand grenades have been invented

with the PS1 and PS2 having issues you go on to say the PS3 seems well made. So over time they have learned

then you say the xbox was well made but the 360 is not. So thats a step backwards

ok point taken

guess i wont be getting this handheld

Well like always the fanboy are posting after readin nothing but the title. Oh well.

Anyways if they could actually make something like that work it be a really neat thing to have. However I dont think the connection would work well enough to make something like that. Even the rare drop make people extremely mad and frustrated.

master chief goes portable. i used to like halo until 3 came out. if they make new and interesting games for the handheld then im buying and 2 analog sticks would be icing on the cake

portable gaming is lame

This is definitely an interesting proposal. And it's interesting to see this take on the "dumb terminal" that dominated technology prior to the PC coming along (when all the processing power was done at a central server and the monitor was just that, a GUI interface).

This guy ought to patent his idea, by the way.

wonder if it will explode instead of just dying...hmm

...Does that mean that you'll get the mini ring of death?

That's a bad idea for MS. They can't even fix their larger counterpart and they're trying to make a portable one?

The Xbox Portable will be coming late 2009 with a 36% failure rate, horrible graphics and comes with a battery that will give you an hour of gameplay! The XBP will weigh about 9 pounds, with the power brick that is used to power it. The XBP will include the game viva pinata: mini adventures. The XBP will lauch with franchises like: Halo .5, gears of war: the small locust horde, too Migit and also new ips like: 50 mil, Red Ring of Death and 16%. Enjoy!

Those wouldnt pass security checks on airports due to security precautions.

first day purchase if microsoft came out with one

i take it every one in here is a retard??? if u care to read the full story it plainly states it aint a hand held console but more of a wireless portable device for the 360 to play games on the move. why is this site riddled with thick retarded ppl???

as "dominating its rivals" then, yea sure, they can do that rofl.

"no, it's NOT like a PSP,
it's... original,
it's... different,
it's... special,
it's..."

ANOTHER ME-TOO POS FROM M$!

I have a PSP and I do love it. A XBOX handheld would be very welcome. Updated Graphics and real hard core games. I say bring it on M$ my PSP needs a bigger stronger friend.

Xbox Live Jade Membership (Mobile) -$50
Microsoft ONLY memory cards (1GB)-$249.99
Charge & Play kit--$39.99
3 year warranty (if the new portable isnt released in 6months)--$89.99
Microsoft Attachable Fan/Cooling System--$29.99
Clip on Keyboard-$19.99
PLUS
the actual "X-boy"-$339.99

Yea I agree that the High Def would kill the battery life. But if they did add a High Def screen, I would hope they would change it where you could change it into different power modes. So that you could tone down the resolution and brightness to save battery life while your on the road. But at home you would be able to plug it in a power supply to get full power.

will never happen. theres so many flaws in this dream its untrue, a xbox version of a PSP maybe but not this

sonys playstation 3 portable is going to be more convenient, watch, their already makeing a ps3 "skinny"

all the ps3 fan boys are jealous that if microsoft comes out with a hand held it may be better than psp

This site is just getting plain ridiculous. Such a sony fanboy site makes me sick. I can understand one standing behind their purchase but to purposely go on other threads just to flame is absolutely childish and retarded. I say MS should release one, but only release in NA and EU and everywhere else except in Japan. For once let the Japanese gamers have to buy it on ebay from the States and let us have the opportunity to sell it to them at such inflated prices. Serves them right.

yea its called remote play the psp is already doing that with games and liar and on yea sony actually makes games for the psp as well so this machine sounds like garbage and another way for ms to use other peoples ideas classic

Nobody cares about the ZUNE, and nobody would care about the MSP.

Have any of you realized just how damn biased you are?
F*cking bladestar is over there quabling about batteries which are a sh*t tech anyway. Batteries are temporary energy sources that use a CHEMICAL REACTION to generate power. Hardly perfected, don't you think. Dell computers have the highest reputation for spitting out sh*tty computers with gimp HDD's and power supplys, right? Had to replace mine actually.
Anyway no one is innocent of pushing out sh*t gear.
Ipods? Sh*t.
Iphones? Sh*t.
360's? Sh*t.(Don't turn this into a fanboy comment, this is completely based only on CURRENT hardware configurations avaliable on the market. Taking total disregard to the software the machine can play.)
Dells? Sh*t.
A LOT of Tv's? Sh*t.
Most Cellphones. Sh*t.

Do you seeeee where I'm going with this? Machines are sh*t, but the point is we use them, and we always will no matter how much they suck, because despite total crap, they maintain functionality.
They make our lives easier, to an extent.
And they give us something to do.

So should the ENTIRETY of a corporate industry catch sh*t for releasing one operationally challenged machine? F*ck no.

So shut the F*CK up fanboy scum, get over the fact that the 360 has RROD, or that the wii has fad-like attributes, the ps3 has a lack of awesome titles.
If you're too busy keeping others down there is no way to keep yourself up.
Promise.

As for the portable gaming market, it's saturated, there is almost no wiggle room to penetrate it. The only reason Xbox even got into the gaming market was because at the time Sony was the only REAL presence.
Now the market has three giants in it and I dare any of you to fathom another console pushing in. It won't happen.
Same for the portable one.

Tariu-Kun I can agree with you. We are all looking for the best piece of Sh*t we can find. Its just some sh*t stinks more than the other.

My bet for MS's handheld?

A new Hiptop Phone. I dont know how it will be branded, but it will bridge the Zune and Xbox 360 gaming brands onto a new phone.

That is why they bought Danger.

HD gaming
Two analogue sticks
Keyboard
no RRoD (lol)

And it will be a dream come true

No way Battery life!!!! Is such a downer and guess what the smaller the screen the more lame the game appears.