Subsequent Xbox title confirmed – and sure, it should play your PC video games as nicely

The new CEO of Xbox has made a serious announcement simply over every week after she began within the function. Asha Sharma has additionally confirmed a key element in regards to the new machine that might be vital when battling the PS6 and Valve’s Steam Machine.

As revealed on X, the codename for the subsequent Xbox is Project Helix, with a cylindrical brand that has some imagine it ties-in with pictures of the Xbox “Brooklin” leaked way back to 2023.

Sharma additionally added on her own X account affirmation that Project Helix shall be a hybrid console – it’s going to play each Xbox and PC video games.

“Project Helix will lead in performance and play your Xbox and PC games,” she posted, together with the trace that extra might be revealed through the GDC Festival of Gaming in San Francisco subsequent week.

Previously the Game Developers Conference, GDC has grown into one thing extra in current instances – partly due to the collapse of the summer season’s E3 gaming occasion a number of years in the past.

Hopefully, we’ll hear just a little extra on Helix’s PC capabilities, as a result of if meaning it may entry Steam, Epic Games Store, GOG and different digital shops, plus be used with retro video games emulators, AND play all the previous and new Xbox catalogues that is an enormous deal.

Neither Sony or Valve will have the ability to compete with that, absolutely?

Of course, it should all come down to cost. You presently should pay at the least £800 to play trendy PC video games nicely sufficient to be price it, and nicely over £1,000 to get one of the best efficiency. But placing a £1K price tag on the subsequent Xbox takes it distant from being a house console.

One factor’s for certain, with the Project Helix title now on the market, we might be listening to much more about Xbox’s plans earlier than later. For instance, Xbox introduced “Project Scarlett” throughout E3 in 2019 after which launched the Xbox One the next 12 months.

Could this imply Project Helix will arrive in 2027? There’s each likelihood.

We’ve not had a tentative launch window this time, however many analysts and specialists have been touting 2027 for months. They could find yourself being bang on the cash.