Thanks to the already-launched Steam Deck and the soon-to-be-released (but not entirely well-received) Asus ROG Ally, several Microsoft console features could be migrated to the Windows operating system.

The Asus ROG Ally doesn’t have a Linux-based operating system (Steam Deck does), and it’s built with more modern components and a display with a higher resolution and refresh rate. Microsoft might be riding on the trend, as in a broadcast celebrating the launch of Asus’ handheld PC, an Xbox manager, Roanne Sones talked about how some of the gaming features seen on consoles could make it to Windows 11. Some features in the Xbox’s closed infrastructure could be helpful on Asus’ gadget, but that would require Microsoft to bring them around “in-house.”

Sones confirmed that handheld PCs had changed how Microsoft thinks about the Windows experience. She didn’t elaborate on the changes or how the future of Windows 11 might shape up, but she gave an example of something that isn’t there on PCs but is on the Redmond-based company’s consoles. Quick Resume is a great feature that allows you to pick up games where you left off at any time, switch between games, or put the console in rest mode and start playing an interrupted game almost instantly without any loading time or waiting. There’s no extra hardware load, and it would look great on a Steam Deck or an Asus ROG Ally.

The other feature is somewhat farfetched: the ability to switch between devices on Windows. It sounds impossible to play something on your home PC, for example, then get on the road and continue on the bus on your Asus machine. As there is no limit to the number of configurations of a PC, it would be impossible to test. For example, it could be an AMD Ryzen 7 5800X, or say, an Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4 (14 cores/28 threads, albeit with a lower clock speed), the graphics card could be an AMD Radeon RX 580 or an Nvidia Quadro P4000, and so on…

Let’s hope something happens.

Source: PCGamer