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DF Weekly: if the Xbox handheld is years away, what's the point of Project Kennan?
Digital Foundry on what could be a crucial step in bringing Windows and Xbox together.
In my opinion, expectations from this device should be tempered and we should think of it more as one further step down the road that'll see Xbox merge in some way with Windows - a significant undertaking, but a crucial one that needs to be proved out and battle-hardened before next generation hardware arrives in the next few years. Microsoft also needs to grab the bull by its horns and overcome some of the fundamental shortcomings of Windows 11 itself: like shader compilation stutter, which is that much worse on lower power handhelds compared to more capable desktop PCs. I'm expecting whatever Microsoft comes up with to be in some kind of beta or work-in-progress state, simply owing to the sheer scale of the task ahead of it - but there are other strategic elements in play: Lenovo has a SteamOS device available that essentially sees Valve's Linux-based operating system running on a standard AMD processor - the Z2 Go.
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