Xbox just officially announced the next generation of consoles, set to follow the Xbox Series X/S at some point in the next few years. Despite Xbox's recent pivot to a focus on software over hardware, the company has offered repeated reassurances that another console generation is on its way, which the latest news finally reveals in a more specific fashion.
In a post on X, the official Xbox account shared the project name "Project Helix" and a new logo that reimagines the iconic spherical X as a flatter design evocative of DNA's double helix structure. Xbox's new CEO Asha Sharma provided more details in her own post, claiming that the system will "lead in performance and play your Xbox and PC games," which promises a major shift in approach from previous Xbox console generations.
The biggest takeaway from the Project Helix reveal is the promise that the next generation of Xbox will be compatible with PC games, which fulfills a lot of long-running rumors about the future of Microsoft gaming hardware. Just how this concept will manifest remains to be seen, but it could set the next Xbox up as direct competition for the upcoming Steam Machine and even traditional...
