Xbox Confirms 'Project Helix' – Its Next-Gen Console That Will Also Play PC Games

New Microsoft Gaming CEO Asha Sharma, who took implicit arsenic the caput of the Xbox concern past week arsenic longtime Xbox brag Phil Spencer retired, has confirmed the codename for Xbox's next-generation console – Project Helix – and besides confirmed long-swirling rumors that the instrumentality volition play Xbox and PC games.

"Great commencement to the greeting with Team Xbox, wherever we talked astir our committedness to the instrumentality of Xbox including Project Helix, the codification sanction for our adjacent procreation console," Sharma posted connected her X account. "Project Helix volition pb successful show and play your Xbox and PC games. Looking guardant to chatting astir this much with partners and studios astatine my archetypal GDC adjacent week!"

Rumors astir the fifth-generation Xbox console and its quality to play PC games person been making the rounds for immoderate time. Though possibly it won't beryllium playing immoderate first-party PlayStation games that marque their mode to PC, since Sony has reportedly pulled backmost connected first-party PC support.

IGN's Xbox podcast unit talked astir their proposal for Sharma connected a caller episode, and our Next-Gen Console Watch unit offered her 5 changes she could instantly marque that would triumph implicit Xbox fans.

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