Play where you want, when you want and what you want. Nintendo Switch was not the first portable console, but its irruption transformed the landscape and it did not take long to create a new trend. Gradually new systems arrived that you can enjoy on a laptop or connected to a screen such as Steam Deck, ASUS or Logitech alternatives and even Sony has patented a way to take the games into your hands. And what about Microsoft? Well, there is a more or less similar idea, but posed differently.
Through Twitter, the user h0x0d, who has previously teased future Windows features, has shared a prototype of a portable mode for Windows. One information contrasted from The Verge and that, in essence, is activated in a tremendously simple way. A huge step forwardsince despite the fact that it is possible to install the Operating System and its drivers in Steam Deck, currently the experience is far from comfortable.
As has been detailed, there are a whole series of walls and drawbacks when it comes to playing games optimized for Windows on systems like Steam Deck, resulting in drawbacks that range from not being originally designed to be played on a laptop (which has its logic) because the software does not understand what type of device it is running on. So, Windows portable mode I would adapt the operating system to each machine.
Which does not mean that through the dedicated button and fully integrated into Windows we can make additional adjustments to accommodate the experience.
In fact, the great advance is to adapt everything that is displayed on the screen to the screen of any portable system such as Steam Deck, Logitech G Cloud, ROG Ally or any system capable of installing Windows and making the gaming experience optimal in them. Even enable this possibility on Switch if Nintendo wanted to. And this is a giant step.
In fact, it is not just a question of making the elements on the screen touchable, but of accommodating the whole of the experience to the size and resolution of the screen, so that all the image, icons and fonts adapt to any screen. and the precision with which we interact also accommodates the circumstances.
But the best thing is that it also adapts and can be configured so that any PC launcher such as Xbox, Battle.net, Steam, EPIC Games and even itch.io work comfortably on portable systems.
As stated by The Verge, and of course, the existence of the prototype does not imply that we will see it in a future update, but rather Microsoft’s interest in offering this functionality. And we are not going to deny it, Winodws has become one of the greatest common denominators of the colossal community of PC gamers, so entering portable systems through the front door would be a master plan and, by extension, a brutal additional push to Game Pass.
And it is that we do not know if Microsoft will really release a new portable system or something similar in the future, ensuring that Windows can be present in a comfortable and simple way in those that are already available and those that arrive in the future is something that can benefit everyone. YoIncluding, of course, the players.
