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[GameSpot] - Former Xbox Boss Reveals Why The Company Never Made A Handheld Platform


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A former Xbox boss has revealed some of the reasons why the company never made a portable game console, despite several teams inside Microsoft pushing for it.

Robbie Bach, who left Microsoft in 2010 after years of running the Xbox business from the beginning in 2001, said in a recent interview during the New York Game Awards that he rejected every Xbox portable proposal because the company just didn't have the bandwidth to support it.

The three pitches for a portable Xbox during Bach's tenure at Microsoft all referred to the system as "Xboy," which could have led to a trademark issue, the executive joked.

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