During an interview at the introduction of ASUS ROG Ally, an Xbox executive talked about features like Xbox Quick Resume, which would allow sessions to be transferred from a desktop to a handheld computer, for example.

Rowan Sons, Vice President of the company From Xbox, in a group chat with two VIPs from ASUS and one from AMD during Lunch event From ROG Ally, the laptop from ASUS. Ally makes Microsoft “think differently” about mobile gaming on Windows, she says. Basically talking about starting a game on your computer, [de Ally] And you want to pick up a backup of where you were,” and concludes this story with “How do we feel about bringing that to the Windows platform?” “

What Sones describes is two functions. One is to support the system to sleep without crashing the running game. In principle, this is already possible in Windows, although it will vary from game to game whether the game will “survive”. This is also a Steam Deck feature, but again it’s not foolproof; The game may crash. It is conceivable that game makers, along with the OS maker, are responsible for combating these types of crashes.

The second feature involves a more “aggressive” use of cloud saving. Sones describes a near-seamless experience when you switch from your PC to this portable device, for example. For this, the save data must be easily and quickly transferred to the cloud, so that the ally can pick it up and the player can continue from the point where he was, or at least a point close to it.

Here too, the Steam Deck shows how that can work. If a deck is put to sleep during play, the data will be saved It was uploaded to the Steam cloud first, so that the player can continue on the desktop, for example. If he did, it would first be asked on the PC if he’d prefer to completely close the deck game first, in order to have a more recent save in the cloud if possible. Xbox has a similar systemalbeit without a handheld device in the game.

These aren’t firm promises from Microsoft, but the fact that the company is talking about it shows that it has some confidence and intent in this area. In addition, it appeared earlier that Microsoft is working on how to make Windows 11 more mobile friendly; In April, a presentation was leaked about possible changes to the operating system for this. Microsoft seems to be more interested in laptops due to the popularity of Steam Deck, which came out in February.