{"id":1030588,"date":"2026-08-29T08:40:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T08:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1030588\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T08:40:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T08:40:17","slug":"xbox-ceo-calls-project-helix-a-family-of-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1030588\/","title":{"rendered":"Xbox CEO calls Project Helix a \u2018family of devices\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">According to Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, Project Helix, which she announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/games\/890194\/microsoft-teases-its-next-xbox-says-project-helix-will-play-pc-games-too\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in March<\/a> as a codename for Microsoft\u2019s \u201cnext generation console\u201d \u2014 phrasing that seemingly implied a singular device \u2014 will actually be a \u201cfamily\u201d of devices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">\u201cWe\u2019ve been hard at work on a great next generation and a great family of devices for Helix, and we\u2019ll share more soon,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/txuYKwrbq1M?si=XfSwWxfTouk0_joN&amp;t=285\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sharma told BBC News<\/a>. She shared the answer after being asked if Helix will be a discless console. She didn\u2019t answer that, but this week Microsoft announced a program <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/984936\/xbox-disc-to-digital-feature-official\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">for digitizing your physical games<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">In 2025, Microsoft and AMD announced a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/688407\/microsoft-next-gen-xbox-cloud-amd\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cstrategic multi-year partnership\u201d<\/a> to work together on \u201ca portfolio of devices,\u201d including Microsoft\u2019s next-generation console, so it seems likely the two companies are also partnering on this family of Helix devices in some way. It\u2019s been rumored that third parties will be able to sell <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nib95_\/status\/2046393721692750121\" rel=\"nofollow\">Project Helix devices of their own<\/a> \u2014 a rumor that Xbox\u2019s VP of next generation, Jason Ronald, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jronald\/status\/2046441220231340424\" rel=\"nofollow\">didn\u2019t exactly deny<\/a> when he wrote that: \u201cProject Helix will be available as a 1st party Xbox console.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, Project Helix, which she announced in March as a codename for Microsoft\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":970127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[171,393,50,158,67,132,68,3768],"class_list":["post-1030588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-entertainment","tag-gaming","tag-news","tag-technology","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-xbox"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117177904576727626","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1030588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/970127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}