Xbox 2025 Handheld: Release Date, Price & Other Key Details Teased In Latest Report

The heavily rumoured Xbox handheld for 2025 has been getting a lot of attention over the past 24 hours thanks to a couple of reports that have cropped up online, the first of which we highlighted here at Pure Xbox last night.

In that report, it was mentioned that Xbox's 2025 handheld is being made by ASUS (known for the ROG Ally series of handhelds) and it's set to feature a console-like interface, but will be powered by Windows like other PC handhelds.

Since then, there's been a lot of interest in the Xbox handheld on social media (for some reason, people seem to think the name is "Xbox Everywhere" now, but we've heard nothing about that ourselves), and Windows Central's Jez Corden has taken to his platform to share even more details about a potential release date, price and more.

Initially, Jez said that the release date of the 2025 Xbox handheld would probably land around June 2025, but he's since clarified that he thinks it'll be unveiled at that time instead, and then will launch in the second half of the year.

In terms of a price, the Xbox handheld is rumoured to be somewhere between $499 and $599 at launch, although this could change depending on various factors. Here's what Jez had to say about the pricing of the handheld specifically:

"Our sources indicate that it won't be quite as cheap as the base model Steam Deck, but it won't be as expensive as the Lenovo Legion Go RRP. It'll be somewhere in the middle, with a base model price range of between $499 and $599 potentially, but like I said, do take that with a huge grain of salt, given the state of the "trade war" going on right now."

In fact, it's been suggested that there might be two different versions (or "SKUs") of the Xbox handheld launching in 2025, with Jez speculating that the more expensive model may have "more powerful chips" or a larger SSD.

Nothing is known about what's inside the Xbox handheld, but it's speculated to feature the AMD Ryzen Z2 Go chipset, and is not expected to support console games - instead, it'll be focused around PC games like similar handhelds.

"Only games that fall under Xbox Play Anywhere will work as a single-purchase entity across Xbox One, Series X|S, and Kennan, much like the ASUS ROG Ally and Lenovo Legion Go."

If some of the speculation out there is to be believed, Microsoft might be working on bringing console versions of Xbox games to the first-party Xbox handheld that's rumoured for 2027, but it seems too early to know that for sure.

We'll keep you up to date with all the latest news about the Xbox handheld for 2025, 2027 and whatever else might crop up, but keep in mind that nothing here is official yet, and as mentioned by Jez, it's all subject to change at this point.

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