{"id":1150761,"date":"2026-02-08T00:55:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T00:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/df-weekly-if-the-xbox-handheld-is-years-away-whats-the-point-of-project-kennan"},"modified":"2026-02-08T00:55:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T00:55:17","slug":"df-weekly-if-the-xbox-handheld-is-years-away-whats-the-point-of-project-kennan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/df-weekly-if-the-xbox-handheld-is-years-away-whats-the-point-of-project-kennan\/","title":{"rendered":"DF Weekly: if the Xbox handheld is years away, what&#8217;s the point of Project Kennan?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/df-weekly-if-the-xbox-handheld-is-years-away-whats-the-point-of-project-kennan.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>According to Microsoft&#8217;s <a data-keyword=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/personas\/phil-spencer\">Phil Spencer<\/a>, the highly anticipated Xbox handheld is<a href=\"https:\/\/www.windowscentral.com\/gaming\/xbox\/longer-term-i-love-us-building-devices-and-i-think-our-team-could-do-some-real-innovative-work-the-xbox-handheld-is-real-but-its-at-least-several-years-out\"> &#8220;several years out&#8221; and only exists in prototype form<\/a>, so what should we make of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.windowscentral.com\/gaming\/xbox\/xbox-project-kennan-gaming-handheld-everything-we-know-so-far\">last week&#8217;s news<\/a> that <em>actually<\/em>, we may see a handheld later on this year? Leaks are suggesting that Microsoft has put together some kind of OEM device proposition, with Asus lined up to produce the first &#8216;Project Kennan&#8217; handheld. 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&#8217;ll see Xbox merge in some way with Windows &#8211; 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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/df-weekly-if-the-xbox-handheld-is-years-away-whats-the-point-of-project-kennan\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/df-weekly-if-the-xbox-handheld-is-years-away-whats-the-point-of-project-kennan\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Microsoft&#8217;s Phil Spencer, the highly anticipated Xbox handheld is &#8220;several years out&#8221; and only exists in prototype form, so what should we make of last week&#8217;s news that actually, we may see a handheld later on this year? Leaks are suggesting that Microsoft has put together some kind of OEM device proposition, with Asus lined up to produce the first &#8216;Project Kennan&#8217; handheld. 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&#8217;ll see Xbox merge in some way with Windows &#8211; 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. 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