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Xbox announces "Project Helix", their next generation console for Xbox and PC games

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Coming up to the sixth year of the Xbox Series consoles, the Xbox Twitter account has today shared the codename for their next generation console: Project Helix. Outside of a small teaser animation, little was shared from the official account, with the more interesting details being shared by the new Xbox CEO Asha Shar.

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The most interesting point here is the fact this system will be capable of playing both Xbox and PC titles, further blurring the lines between modern consoles and PC hardware. This decision appears to mark a distinct split in strategy between Xbox and Sony, with Sony appearing to be moving away from the PC market. With PC parts getting more expensive, would a console capable of playing your PC library be enough to tempt you into the next generation of Xbox hardware?

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It better be physically compatible with EVERY generation of Xbox and let you redownload ANY digital 360 games on your account regardless if it is on the Xbox one compatibility list
 
Foxi4 said:
Hey, if it plays PC games *and* Xbox games, it’s pretty interesting by default. I’ve heard murmurs about an Xbox compatibility layer for Windows for *years*, and the Play Anywhere program games were a small taste of what *could* be. If this is just a box running Windows stripped of most nonsense unrelated to playing video games, thus reducing overhead (no doubt to compete with SteamOS) then I have no complaints.
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The rumours have been around for a long, long time. It's not just designed to compete with SteamOS, it's their attempt to lock their system down. This proves Valve took the correct strategy with SteamOS and Linux.

Microsoft have complained about and blamed everything under the sun. Remember, they have tried to lock everything down several times, before hey were force out of desperation, to adopt this "open" strategy.

Microsoft failed with pretty much everything they've done in the Xbox space, more outside of that too.

The main goal is to lock everything into Windows (they want a system like Google or Apple), where AI can be used to gather all data and build advanced user profiles.
Ai generated trash for games has been there thing for years now too.

They complain about Steam, etc or that Apple and Google won't allow them to sell games and want a store front on their systems. Microsoft store is a joke and pales in comparison to many
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The worst thing that could happen for everyone (Microsoft included) is that this is a success. I really can't see it, as Microsoft are wholly incompetent and jump from one thing to the next, running around like a headless chicken.
 
that would be an interesting tactic to do both xbox and pc in one unit.. it would make them buff up the console because todays games are so demanding on graphics and ram for a smooth gameplay it would make them (hopefully) think outside the box and open a whole new oppertunity around pc games weather its big titles or small indi games + if it times right GTA would be the one to look out for

another thing would be the DRM work around and backwards compatability thought the OS they install
 
A lot of marketing for what is just throwing unpported games into their store and stamping them as playable, once again leveraging their desktop monopoly knowing there are no consequences. Nice if you're into the XBox already, mostly irrelevant if you're not.
 
We are no longer in the Xbox hardware era, we are now in the Xbox as a service only era, it will be a short one and probably the last one. Among many bad move in the qorld of microslop they are one foot in the grave now, since after the 360 era they slowly have been dying it is just now come to the end of the trail and they may end up taking windows with them at this point. I love my original Xbox and 360 but have no love for anything after that it doesn't feel like a console and that is what is killing it, part the fun of console gaming for me was it didnt feel like i was just using a pc to play games and it all felt dedicated to the hardware, it was impressive seeing how close cheaper dedicated hardware could get graphically compared to a PC or having unique ways to push a system to do more, this albeit slowly has be going away since the 2000's and I really miss the feel of actual competition between console manufacturer's. The way they blurred the lines between PC and console is a major problem in my opinion, you can't produce hardware and push the narative that everything is a xbox(eg any PC basically) at the same time. Part of the appeal of console gaming was cheaper hardware than PC, we probably won't get this with the next generation of Xbox be that as a service or as hardware on a performance level. On a side note as a prediction due to the state of things, I think Xbox and eventually Sony will move more and more into the as a service mindset while Nintendo struggles to keep a hold of the hardware market they have while being also heavily subscription based, Sony and xbox leaving hardware behind, they won't be able to compete with steam and older PC hardware as a price point. Becoming purely a subscription service is a bad move and not a good sign as people are getting sick of all of the subscription services now days and getting pushed more heavily to do piracy with media.
 
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It better be physically compatible with EVERY generation of Xbox and let you redownload ANY digital 360 games on your account regardless if it is on the Xbox one compatibility list
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They had an initiative to do that during the Series generation (aka now) they stopped that a few years ago because of the cost (they had to recompile & relicense music which cost them quite a lot of money)

And since it wasn't a division that was making a profit MS shut it down (this is why BC program stopped in November 2021) They said it was legal, technical & licensing (aka cost), but we know it was mostly COST. It wasn't making Xbox any money, so why keep a promise to system owners that isn't making their gaming division any money.

They'll use what they currently have going forward, but I don't foresee any new BC (that includes full OG Xbox, X360 BC to become a reality), they won't use emulation because that's too easy for them and makes sense.

(They won't even support it via discs, like they did with Series, even though it had to download the recompiled version to play on the Series system, which leads us back to the original issue, time, money, relicensing, etc.)

So I'd keep your expectations low and expect nothing from this.
 
Exnor said:
Ok might be a good idea, but my question is: Can i use my disk based games? If not, then its not for me.

Also, i wonder what the price will be?
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don't count on it. 100% it will be digital only with something like ps+ where you can download A FEW old xbox games
 
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