Xbox Fullscreen Expertise now accessible on ‘all’ Home windows handhelds

The Xbox Fullscreen Expertise is what makes the Asus ROG Xbox Ally, effectively, an Xbox—at the least in keeping with the advertising. However now the hand held’s signature function is accessible for the competitors. After launching in preview on the MSI Claw and getting enabled by tweaking some early Insider builds, Microsoft says it’s accessible on all Home windows 11 handhelds beginning at this time, November twenty first.

We have been anticipating this wider rollout a while in early 2026, particularly for the reason that Xbox Ally is such an enormous partnership between Microsoft and Asus. The announcement got here through Microsoft’s Xbox Companion Preview, which confirmed a sequence of latest video games coming to the Xbox console and PC platforms later this 12 months and into 2026. “We additionally introduced that full display expertise—initially accessible on the ASUS ROG Xbox Ally and Ally X—is usually accessible tomorrow (November 21) throughout all gaming handhelds at the moment in market.”

The announcement says that the FSE (not XFE, for causes that also elude me) will likely be coming to “extra Home windows 11 PC type components” through the Insiders program. Based mostly on the promotional picture, that appears to point that laptops and desktops will be capable of launch the fullscreen recreation searching and social interface as effectively. With an enlargement to bigger screens, that’d give the Xbox/PC platform one thing roughly much like Steam’s Massive Image Mode.

I don’t have a handheld to check this out on since I’ve loaded up Valve’s SteamOS beta on my Lenovo Legion Go. However you’ll be able to reportedly activate the FSE by going to the principle Home windows 11 Settings menu, then choosing Gaming and Full Display Expertise. It appears potential that with the wide range of handhelds now operating Home windows 11, a few of them might need some help points because the function launches.