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XBOX had a number of confidential documents leaked, which included a lot of interesting information for Xbox hands.

Most interesting of all are all the consoles, accessories and other hardware that Xbox has planned for the future.

Several of the planned consoles already have designs.1

Several of the planned consoles already have designs.Credit: Xbox

A lot of people have been focused on the new look for the Xbox Series X, which will have the same power but be smaller and not have a disc drive.

Shaped like a tall black cylinder, it will look more like an Amazon Alexa than your typical console.

However, another image showed a range of consoles and hardware yet to be announced officially to the public.

One of these is a cloud device, which has been teased for a while as the Xbox Keystone.

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The Keystone will only stream games, so players won’t own them, and CEO Phil Spencer was spotted with one in his office.

Spencer has said that Xbox is still trying to hit the £99 ($99) price point, which is why this console has not been released yet.

The images also show a Backbone-style controller to stream Xbox games from your phone, and a one handed controller similar to a Switch Joy-Con.

However, the most interesting reveal was an Xbox handheld console, which would be the first for the company.

With a picture of the planned console, it has a horizontal screen with a split controller similar to the Switch.

The face buttons are coloured, but otherwise it looks similar to a number of handheld PCs currently on the market.

What would make the Xbox handheld more interesting is if it can play Xbox games directly from the handheld rather than streaming from the Xbox.

While this is the first we’ve heard about a handheld Xbox console, there are a lot of fans that are excited about this first look.

Written by Georgina Young on behalf of GLHF.

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