Rumors suggest that Microsoft is working on an Xbox handheld console

During the technology's reveal, Qualcomm and Razer pointed out how the device could take advantage of Microsoft's popular gaming services such as the Xbox Game Pass and Xbox Cloud Gaming.

The publication claims that the upcoming Qualcomm handheld unit is the perfect way for Microsoft to experiment if it should make a handheld console. If Xbox Cloud Gaming is a success on Razer and Qualcomm's console, then what's stopping Microsoft from taking advantage of this fact themselves?

Of course, at the end of the day, it's best to remember that this is all just speculation. As credible as Windows Central is, you can't consider anything that they say about an Xbox-focused handheld console as fact. Even if Microsoft is testing out the potential of a handheld console, companies do this all the time.

There's a huge difference between feeling the market and working on actual prototypes for a product that might see the light of day. The talk of an Xbox handheld console feels much more like the former than the latter.

But, if it does happen, we're curious to see what it will look like and how it will perform. More importantly, we're interested to find out if this will encourage Sony to get back into the handheld console market, especially after the reports of Sony's most recent PlayStation mobile controller patent.

In the meantime, Microsoft's fans can take advantage of the company's efforts to improve Xbox Game Pass and Xbox Cloud Gaming. Earlier this year, Microsoft upgraded Cloud Gaming's servers and made the feature available on consoles.