Last summer, we here at Ars made the argument that the company’s next Xbox console should give up the walled garden approach and just run Windows already. Now, newly named Microsoft Executive Vice President for Gaming Asha Sharma has strongly hinted that this is indeed the direction Microsoft is going, saying its next-generation console will “play your Xbox and PC games.”
In a social media post Thursday afternoon, Sharma said that “our commitment to the return of Xbox” would include a new console codenamed Project Helix that “will lead in performance and play your Xbox and PC games.” Sharma said she would be discussing that commitment and that console
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