Asha Sharma, the new CEO of Xbox, recently announced that the next-gen Xbox gaming console is called the Xbox Helix—at least for the time being—and hinted that more information would be revealed about the upcoming Xbox at GDC 2026. Now, GDC is here, and Xbox has delivered on that hint, with Xbox VP ...
So this means the end of Xbox and the end of Windows gaming and the beginning of some… Unholy combo?
Yeesh.
Good thing there won’t be any AAA games that need heavy processing in 2027 between Trump’s Iran war, Sam Altman gobbling up all of the ram, and AAA developers being extra greedy and shutting down studios if they underperform (Microsoft - Redfall), studios if they perform but not perform good enough (Square Enix - FF16, Ubisoft - Assassin’s Creed Shadows), or studios where they knock it out of the park financial but still fire their staff anyways (EA - Battlefield 6).