Huawei could launch a video game console

If we talk about Huawei, the first thing that will come to mind will be the important role that the company has played in the smartphone sector, but the truth is that this Chinese company is more than a giant in the mobile sector, and has interests in others markets that, according to Chinese sources, could expand in the short term.

This supposed expansion would be carried out through two major novelties: a gaming laptop, which was initially to be marketed under the Honor brand, and a video game console, which would have a similar approach to that of PS5 and Xbox Series X, although the information we have is still very scarce, so we must take all this with great caution.

We start with the gaming laptop, since it is the easiest novelty to describe, since we have prior information on the design and configuration that Huawei was going to use in the model that was going to arrive under the Honor brand. I remind you that Huawei recently sold its second Honor brand, and that is why said laptop ended up being canceled.

In the attached image you can see all the information we had about the first Honor gaming laptop. Most likely, all these keys, both in terms of specifications and design, will end up being transferred as is, or with minimal changes, to Huawei's new gaming laptop.

At the hardware level we do not see anything especially striking, since this team would have a 10th generation Core i5 processor and a 6 GB GTX 1660 Ti. The price could be the biggest attraction of this equipment, since it is said that it will be "cheap".

How could it be the Huawei console?

First of all, I want to remind you that Huawei has already tried it for some time in this sector with the Huawei Tron console, a system based on Android 4.2 and equipped with an NVIDIA Tegra 4 SoC that hit the market in 2014, and that it did not have the expected success. .

This new attempt by Huawei to enter the game console market could start from two different strategies. The first would be to create a system "similar" to PS5 and Xbox Series X, in quotation marks because the similarities between these platforms could end up being very small, and the second strategy would be to recover the concept of the Huawei Tron, which would lead us to think about a console with ARM CPU and a Linux-based operating system.

Right now it is impossible to opt for one or the other option, but it is true that the first one seems more complicated, not only because of everything that Huawei would need to shape a console at the level of PS5 and Xbox Series X in terms of hardware, but also because of the agreements that it should close with the main developers so that it has a good catalog of games.

I do not want to end without highlighting another important point, and that is that the new Huawei console could end up being an exclusive one in the Chinese market and would not reach, therefore, the international market.