Xbox Clears Up A Project Helix Rumor, Raises More Questions

Xbox Clears Up A Project Helix Rumor, Raises More Questions

Xbox’s Jason Ronald squashed one rumor and was notably quiet on another

Xbox VP 1st-Party Xbox Helix, Opens Door to Speculation of 3rd-Party Variants

We've known for a while now that the upcoming Xbox Project Helix game console will be a hybrid game console, able to play both PC and Xbox games, but recently news broke that the Xbox Helix would be using an off-the-shelf AMD APU, followed by a leak from KeplerL2 on the NeoGAF forums that it would be a third-party console. The latter rumor claimed that the Xbox Helix would not be available directly to consumers from Microsoft itself, instead ado…

Microsoft To Release First-Party Xbox "Project Helix" Console

Microsoft has confirmed that it is still on course to release a first-party console. Well, if we’re getting into specifics, Jason Ronald, VP of Xbox Gaming Devices and Next Generation, confirmed that the company is making an official “Project Helix” console. Ronald’s statement and response to a comment by KeplerL2 on the NeoGaf forums, who made the bold statement that Project Helix wouldn’t be sold directly to customers and that, in fact, they’d…

Xbox Clarifies Project Helix Will Be a First-Party Console

Microsoft has finally cleared up recent confusion surrounding its next-generation Xbox hardware, confirming that Project Helix is indeed a first-party console. The clarification follows a report from Insider Gaming, highlighting new details shared by the Xbox CEO about the upcoming console. Early speculation suggested the device might resemble a third-party, but that has now been addressed. Project Helix, first revealed by Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, …

Your next Xbox could come in Asus and MSI flavors, but Microsoft has confirmed an in-house Project Helix

Leaks suggest Asus and MSI versions of the next-gen Xbox could be a thing, but Microsoft has swiftly stepped in to confirm there will be a first-party console.