Gates Taunts With Xbox Handheld
The sooner Microsoft comes clean and definitively says yes or no, the better.
Just days after a US analyst said Microsoft could put out a games handheld of sorts as early as next year, Microsoft founder Bill Gates has fuelled the speculative banter with hints that there's still a lot of room in the handheld market.
Gates told the D: All Things Digital (or D4) conference this week that while Microsoft isn't planning on announcing anything right now, there is "plenty of growth yet to come in the handheld space", writes PC Magazine's Michael Miller in his blog.
Microsoft's Peter Moore was similarly quite on the subject when Kikizo spoke to him earlier this month and asked him to respond to rumours that J Allard is heading up the handheld project.
"J is busy... poor old J!" said Moore. "J still runs platform development for all of the stuff that we're doing, [but] has a different role than he had in the past."
So after all that we're no closer to knowing for sure whether Microsoft is planning a handheld. Until the next batch of rumours that is.
Alex Wollenschlaeger
Editor, Kikizo Games
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