Last week, the head of Xbox officially confirmed work on the next-generation Xbox Project Helix console, which will unite the world of consoles and PCs, allowing you to run games from the Xbox and Windows ecosystems.
The idea of Project Hhelix appeared at Microsoft more than ten years ago. In 2016, Jason Schreier and Keza MacDonald wrote in an article for Kotaku about Microsoft's long-term strategy to bring Xbox and Windows closer together. The company began releasing games on both platforms at once. Examples: Halo Wars 2 and Sea of Thieves.
Project Helix represents an interesting vision of the future of the gaming industry. If Microsoft succeeds in implementing it, gamers will be able to get a device that offers a new experience – something between a console and a gaming PC. It is important to remember one key detail: if everything works as Microsoft intended, ROG Xbox Ally X has already demonstrated that even a high-performance device without a properly refined system and ecosystem does not guarantee a perfect gaming experience, and this directly affects the quality of the game and the acceptance of the platform by players.
