{"id":1810594,"date":"2026-03-06T09:51:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T06:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1810594"},"modified":"2026-03-06T09:51:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T06:51:55","slug":"xbox-boss-says-microsofts-next-gen-console-project-helix-can-play-both-your-xbox-and-pc-games-and-will-lead-in-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1810594","title":{"rendered":"Xbox boss says Microsoft&#8217;s next-gen console, Project Helix, can play both &#8220;your Xbox and PC games&#8221; and will &#8220;lead in performance&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"article \" data-ads=\"true\" data-article-type=\"news\" data-article-group=\"news\" data-paywalled=\"false\" data-premium=\"false\" data-sponsored=\"false\" data-type=\"article\">\n<header class=\"article_header\" data-component=\"article-header\">\n<div class=\"breadcrumbs\">\n<nav class=\"nav_breadcrumbs\" data-component=\"nav-breadcrumbs\" aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\">\n<ul class=\"nav-links\">\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      Home<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/news\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      News<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/nav><\/div>\n<div class=\"headline_details\" id=\"main-content\">\n<h1 class=\"title\">Xbox boss says Microsoft&#8217;s next-gen console, Project Helix, can play both &#8220;your Xbox and PC games&#8221; and will &#8220;lead in performance&#8221;<\/h1>\n<p class=\"strapline\">Full Steam ahead?<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"headline_asset\">\n<figure class=\"headline_image_wrapper\">\n<p>        <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"headline_image\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/Asha-Sharma-from-Microsoft-Gaming-overlaid-on-an-Xbox-logo-against-a-green-background.jpg?width=570&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;dpr=3&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"Asha Sharma from Microsoft Gaming overlaid on an Xbox logo against a green background\" loading=\"eager\" data-uri=\"Asha-Sharma-from-Microsoft-Gaming-overlaid-on-an-Xbox-logo-against-a-green-background.jpg\" data-lightbox width=\"570\" height=\"321\"><figcaption>\n          <span class=\"attribution\">Image credit: <cite>Eurogamer<\/cite><\/span><br \/>\n        <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"metadata\">\n<div class=\"avatar\">\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Victoria Phillips Kennedy avatar\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/1644925423.jpg?width=2048&amp;height=2048&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"180\" height=\"179\"><\/p>\n<p>  <img alt=\"Victoria Phillips Kennedy avatar\" data-autosize=\"crop_lossy\" data-uri=\"1644925423.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"180\" height=\"179\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text\">\n<div class=\"byline\">\n                  <span class=\"article_type\" data-slug=\"news\"><br \/>\n                    News<br \/>\n                  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"by\">by<\/span> <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/authors\/victoria-kennedy\">Victoria Phillips Kennedy<\/a><\/span>                    <span class=\"job_title\"><br \/>\n                      News Reporter<br \/>\n                    <\/span>\n            <\/div>\n<div class=\"published_at\">\nPublished on <time datetime=\"2026-03-06T09:51:55+00:00\">March 6, 2026<\/time>              <\/div>\n<div class=\"comments\">\n      <a class=\"comments__link comments-bubble\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/xbox-boss-says-microsofts-next-gen-console-project-helix-can-play-both-your-xbox-and-pc-games-and-will-lead-in-performance?view=comments\" rel=\"nofollow\"><br \/>\n          41 comments<br \/>\n      <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article_body\" data-component=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article_body_content article-styling\">\n<p>Xbox has shared a brief but key update about its next generation console.<\/p>\n<p>It is codenamed Project Helix, and along with Xbox games it will also be able to play PC games, Microsoft&#8217;s newly-announced gaming CEO Asha Sharma has confirmed. Project Helix, will &#8220;lead in performance&#8221; thanks to this dual functionality, Sharma said. <\/p>\n<p><!-- code from Primis - Eurogamer.net - eurogamer.net --><\/p>\n<div class=\"primis_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"primis_video\">\n<p><span class=\"embed_placeholder\" data-type=\"targeting\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"message\">To see this content please enable targeting cookies.<\/span><br \/>\n<button class=\"optanon-show-settings link\"><br \/>\nManage cookie settings<\/button><\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- code from Primis --><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Great start to the morning with Team Xbox, where we talked about our commitment to the return of Xbox including Project Helix, the code name for our next generation console,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/asha_shar\/status\/2029645713962156149\">Sharma wrote on social media<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Project Helix will lead in performance and play your Xbox and PC games. Looking forward to chatting about this more with partners and studios at my first GDC next week!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There have been rumblings that Xbox&#8217;s next console would also include the ability to play PC games. In October of last year, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.windowscentral.com\/gaming\/xbox\/microsofts-ambitious-new-xbox-your-entire-console-library-the-full-power-of-windows-pc-gaming-and-more\">report claimed the Xbox platform was evolving to encompass PC gaming<\/a>, and allow users to even access PlayStation games released on PC (though, perhaps not last year&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/ghost-of-yotei\">Ghost of Yotei<\/a> or Housemarque&#8217;s upcoming Saros, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/playstation-is-reportedly-ditching-its-pc-release-strategy-and-most-first-party-games-will-now-be-console-exclusive\">Sony is reportedly abandoning its strategy of bringing its first-party PlayStation games to PC<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sharma&#8217;s wording today, though, does not specify <em>which<\/em> PC games Project Helix will be able to play. All new Xbox games have of course been made cross-platform with PC, so Sharma&#8217;s wording does mean there&#8217;s always the slight chance that&#8217;s all she&#8217;s referring to. <\/p>\n<p>It is also worth remembering Xbox&#8217;s ROG handheld, which arrived late last year. This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/rog-xbox-ally-x-review\">device plays both Xbox games and your Steam games, along with other PC game libraries<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"video_wrapper youtube\">\n<a aria-label=\"The next generation of Xbox console: Project Helix\" class=\"video-facade full-size\" data-platform=\"youtube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3xy9EmTRxJE?autoplay=1\" title=\"Click to play video from YouTube\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cover image for YouTube video\" class=\"video-facade__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/3xy9EmTRxJE\/hqdefault.jpg\"><span class=\"video-facade__title\">The next generation of Xbox console: Project Helix<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption>Project Helix. <a class=\"video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3xy9EmTRxJE\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Towards the end of last year, Microsoft&#8217;s Satya Nadella spoke about the company&#8217;s future plans, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/what-comes-after-the-xbox-series-consoles-well-its-pretty-much-just-a-pc-even-the-microsoft-ceo-has-said-so\">direct mention of PC storefront Steam as a competitor platform<\/a>, and Microsoft&#8217;s current significance as a video game publisher.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s kind of funny that people think about the console-PC as two different things,&#8221; Nadella said at the time. &#8220;We built the console because we wanted to build a better PC which could then perform for gaming. I kind of want to revisit some of that conventional wisdom.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"2\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>As for Sharma, she was announced to be taking over from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/personas\/phil-spencer\">Phil Spencer<\/a> following last month&#8217;s shock news that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/today-marks-an-exciting-new-chapter-xbox-boss-phil-spencer-retiring-amid-major-leadership-shakeup-that-sees-microsofts-coreai-president-taking-over-roll\">Xbox head would be retiring from Microsoft after nearly 40 years with the company<\/a>. Sarah Bond, who many had presumed would eventually succeed Spencer, also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/former-xbox-president-sarah-bond-bids-farewell-to-xbox-staff\">announced she would be leaving Xbox at this same time<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more, be sure to check out our Chris&#8217; feature on everything happening with Sharma&#8217;s new role at Microsoft: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/future-of-xbox-vague-contradictory-phil-spencer-sarah-bond-asha-sharma-matt-booty\">The future of Xbox is vague and contradictory, with just a glimmer of hope<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"preferred-source\" data-component=\"preferred-source\">\nLove Eurogamer.net? Make us a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\">Preferred Source on Google<\/a> and catch more of our coverage in your feeds.  <\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"article_body\" data-component=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article_body_content article-styling\">\n<p>Xbox has shared a brief but key update about its next generation console.<\/p>\n<p>It is codenamed Project Helix, and along with Xbox games it will also be able to play PC games, Microsoft&#8217;s newly-announced gaming CEO Asha Sharma has confirmed. Project Helix, will &#8220;lead in performance&#8221; thanks to this dual functionality, Sharma said. <\/p>\n<p><!-- code from Primis - Eurogamer.net - eurogamer.net --><\/p>\n<div class=\"primis_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"primis_video\">\n<p><span class=\"embed_placeholder\" data-type=\"targeting\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"message\">To see this content please enable targeting cookies.<\/span><br \/>\n<button class=\"optanon-show-settings link\"><br \/>\nManage cookie settings<\/button><\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- code from Primis --><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Great start to the morning with Team Xbox, where we talked about our commitment to the return of Xbox including Project Helix, the code name for our next generation console,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/asha_shar\/status\/2029645713962156149\">Sharma wrote on social media<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Project Helix will lead in performance and play your Xbox and PC games. Looking forward to chatting about this more with partners and studios at my first GDC next week!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There have been rumblings that Xbox&#8217;s next console would also include the ability to play PC games. In October of last year, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.windowscentral.com\/gaming\/xbox\/microsofts-ambitious-new-xbox-your-entire-console-library-the-full-power-of-windows-pc-gaming-and-more\">report claimed the Xbox platform was evolving to encompass PC gaming<\/a>, and allow users to even access PlayStation games released on PC (though, perhaps not last year&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/ghost-of-yotei\">Ghost of Yotei<\/a> or Housemarque&#8217;s upcoming Saros, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/playstation-is-reportedly-ditching-its-pc-release-strategy-and-most-first-party-games-will-now-be-console-exclusive\">Sony is reportedly abandoning its strategy of bringing its first-party PlayStation games to PC<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sharma&#8217;s wording today, though, does not specify <em>which<\/em> PC games Project Helix will be able to play. All new Xbox games have of course been made cross-platform with PC, so Sharma&#8217;s wording does mean there&#8217;s always the slight chance that&#8217;s all she&#8217;s referring to. <\/p>\n<p>It is also worth remembering Xbox&#8217;s ROG handheld, which arrived late last year. This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/rog-xbox-ally-x-review\">device plays both Xbox games and your Steam games, along with other PC game libraries<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"video_wrapper youtube\">\n<a aria-label=\"The next generation of Xbox console: Project Helix\" class=\"video-facade full-size\" data-platform=\"youtube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3xy9EmTRxJE?autoplay=1\" title=\"Click to play video from YouTube\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cover image for YouTube video\" class=\"video-facade__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/3xy9EmTRxJE\/hqdefault.jpg\"><span class=\"video-facade__title\">The next generation of Xbox console: Project Helix<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption>Project Helix. <a class=\"video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3xy9EmTRxJE\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Towards the end of last year, Microsoft&#8217;s Satya Nadella spoke about the company&#8217;s future plans, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/what-comes-after-the-xbox-series-consoles-well-its-pretty-much-just-a-pc-even-the-microsoft-ceo-has-said-so\">direct mention of PC storefront Steam as a competitor platform<\/a>, and Microsoft&#8217;s current significance as a video game publisher.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s kind of funny that people think about the console-PC as two different things,&#8221; Nadella said at the time. &#8220;We built the console because we wanted to build a better PC which could then perform for gaming. I kind of want to revisit some of that conventional wisdom.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"2\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>As for Sharma, she was announced to be taking over from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/personas\/phil-spencer\">Phil Spencer<\/a> following last month&#8217;s shock news that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/today-marks-an-exciting-new-chapter-xbox-boss-phil-spencer-retiring-amid-major-leadership-shakeup-that-sees-microsofts-coreai-president-taking-over-roll\">Xbox head would be retiring from Microsoft after nearly 40 years with the company<\/a>. Sarah Bond, who many had presumed would eventually succeed Spencer, also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/former-xbox-president-sarah-bond-bids-farewell-to-xbox-staff\">announced she would be leaving Xbox at this same time<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more, be sure to check out our Chris&#8217; feature on everything happening with Sharma&#8217;s new role at Microsoft: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/future-of-xbox-vague-contradictory-phil-spencer-sarah-bond-asha-sharma-matt-booty\">The future of Xbox is vague and contradictory, with just a glimmer of hope<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home News Xbox boss says Microsoft&#8217;s next-gen console, Project Helix, can play both &#8220;your Xbox and PC games&#8221; and will &#8220;lead in performance&#8221; Full Steam ahead? 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