Project Helix - Xbox's Next Console

[Moonface]

Following the recent leadership changes at Xbox, it was revealed that the next generation Xbox was in development, dubbed as Project Helix. Today at GDC, the company provided further details on Project Helix:

• Designed to play your Xbox console and PC games, delivering leading performance and ushering in the next generation of console gaming.
  
  
• Powered by a custom AMD SoC and co-designed for the next generation of DirectX and FSR to unlock what comes next.
  
  
• Plan to ship alpha versions of the hardware to developers beginning in 2027.
  
  
• Starting in April, Xbox mode will begin rolling out to Windows in select markets. It brings a familiar Xbox experience to players while keeping the flexibility and openness of Windows.
  

The full GDC conference summary can be read here: https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/03/11/p...n-of-xbox/

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I'm glad to see Xbox is staying in the console scene, for reasons I've shared before of just preventing other companies like PlayStation from doing anything they want to through providing competition. Not surprised to see they're going for a console/PC hybrid since it makes sense for them to go for that niche, which might benefit them over just trying to do a pure console because that side of the market is pretty much locked in to PlayStation and Nintendo.

What they definitely need to do though is no X/S variants of the thing. Especially with their requirement that games must have parity on Series X and Series S, which is just knee-capping games from being as good as they could be on Series X.