It’s time for Microsoft to build an Xbox Steam Deck

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Handheld gaming is the future, and Microsoft has an opportunity to lead. The world’s basically biggest gaming company should no longer stand by.

The Nintendo Switch is on track to become the bestselling game console of all time. Sony’s PS5 will likely surpass the Xbox One’s entire lifetime sales later this year. Meanwhile, Microsoft’s newer Xbox Series X and S, with their comparatively disappointing exclusive games, are firmly in third place yet again — and it doesn’t look like Xbox Game Pass will ever fill the gap. Microsoft isn’t planning to take this lying down.

You no longer needed a console to play Halo or God of War, and it seemed like Microsoft preferred it that way. But when Valve released the Steam Deck, it was Sony, not Microsoft, that capitalized. We wrote how the Steam Deck made PlayStation’s biggest games portable, and how the Steam Deck made us buy games we would have otherwise purchased for Nintendo Switch. But that meant we were buying our games through Steam rather than paying Microsoft.

 

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