The pictures have been surfaced by Videocardz and Indonesian website 91mobiles from an Indonesian certification submitting, itself linked to a list by the U.S. FCC. They present two new ROG Ally consoles: a vanilla mannequin in white, and a black mannequin with one button adorned with an unpainted however unmistakable Xbox brand.
This, presumably, is Mission Keenan, an Xbox handheld that’s been rumored for a couple of months and is reportedly set to be launched this yr. It’s not the Xbox handheld console, nonetheless. Fairly, it’s a Home windows gaming system from a third-party producer — Asus, it appears — that has Xbox branding and presumably comes preloaded with the Xbox PC app, making entry to issues like PC Recreation Move and the Xbox Play Wherever cross-platform catalog a lot simpler.
Based on Home windows Central, there’s additionally a first-party handheld Xbox that may play Xbox console video games within the works, however that’s not due till 2027 on the earliest.
There’s not a lot else we are able to inform from the pictures, aside from that the FCC must spend money on some display wipes and barely much less harsh lighting. However the listings suggest that the black, Xbox-branded mannequin of the ROG Ally 2 has higher specs than the bottom mannequin; it appears to pack an eight-core Ryzen Z2 Excessive processor, relatively than the white console’s four-core AMD Aerith Plus.
Home windows Central says that Mission Keenan is being examined “relatively overtly” at Microsoft in the intervening time, and speculates that the system can be revealed as quickly as Could 20.
