| bonzobanana said: I have no interest in this at all. I think it will be a niche player in the market with this device, yes more than Valve's steam hardware but insignificant compared to Sony and Nintendo hardware products. I have a steam deck and mini pc running steam os and those devices just work to play PC games of any vintage it seems. I still prefer Windows as a desktop computer environment although I only use stripped down LTSC versions but I really don't want anything to do with Windows when it comes to gaming nowadays. The more I understand about Linux the more I move over to that as my preferred desktop environment. Maybe in 2 years Windows will have no interest to me at all when I finally decide Linux is better for general computing. I also think the Xbox brand has been hugely damaged in recent times. |
Well for the Linux part, you are in a very small minority so it is really not relevant :)
As for the project Helix itself, I can see why it may not be for everyone but I would not be surprised for this to be more successful than some imagine, one of the reason (no matter what the haters will say while jumping at their keyboards after my comment) is Windows and being able to play your full Xbox library (non Xbox Anywhere title and from other publishers on a single device. Linux is cute and all, but most people want a PC running Windows, and it looks like this thing is going to be doing that.
My 4 kids all have a PC (playing mostly Steam/Xbox Games) and an Xbox Series X... With this, they will have a single device that can play their entire library... I want to believe that I'm not alone in that situation and this is while I think this is more appealing in general than any Steam Machine out there cause it does the same thing + more..
Last edited by Imaginedvl - on 09 March 2026
