- Project Helix is being referred to as a PC rather than an Xbox by most of the industry.
- Digital Foundry and Geoff Keighley both have called the hardware a PC.
- Microsoft has now blurred the line between what a PC or an Xbox should be in its efforts to merge both these ecosystems.
Just recently, Microsoft officially unveiled details for their next-generation of Xbox console codenamed ‘Project Helix‘, which was confirmed to play both PC and console titles. Earlier, rumors did suggest that Project Helix would be a PC in a console shell, but officially, the hardware has so far been addressed as a conventional console.
Still, there’s a heated debate within the industry among journalists and analysts over whether Project Helix is a console or a PC, but most are choosing the latter.
Why it matters: So far, Microsoft’s plans for their next generation of Xbox hardware have been confusing, but it’s interesting to see it raising so many eyebrows all over the place.
Digital Foundry, arguably one of the biggest names in the tech world right now, has referred to Project Helix as a PC. In their latest article discussing the convergence between the Windows and console ecosystems, here’s what they had to say.
From a developer perspective, Xbox is a PC – perhaps one that receives a limited level of specific optimisations but basically runs the exact same code as the PC build.
Previously, Geoff Keighley, well-known industry journalist and host of Summer Fest and The Game Awards, referred to Project Helix as a PC-based Xbox, which sparked a serious controversy among fellow journalists, underscoring how seriously this entire conversation is being taken.
Microsoft hasn’t been shy about its plans to bring both the Windows and Xbox ecosystems closer together, which is something they’ve been planning on for nearly a decade now. We recently saw the first efforts of that borned fruit with the ROG Xbox Ally handhelds.
Now, the Xbox mode, essentially a newer UI that blocks out essential Windows elements to give a performance uplift and a cleaner-looking platform, is coming to Windows 11 in April.
Consider a similar implementation with Project Helix. As such, the hardware could either be called a PC or a console; it probably won’t matter much in a couple of years.
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