Project Helix - The next generation of Xbox

[HoloDust]

Chrkeller said:

HoloDust said:

Supposedly, it will play all XBOX games from previous generations.

It's most likely still a console, with it's own SDKs and low level optimizations that usual consoles allow for, with games released for it just as for any traditional consoles, while also being able to run in "PC" mode, behaving as pre-built PC.

If MS does indeed treat it as console, it will be interesting to see how the same game performs on its "console" part vs when it runs on it via Steam.

Yeah, I get it, maybe.  But Halo Anniversary exists.  Gaiden 2 was remade.  Oblivion was remade.  Gears was remade.  Not sure how big of a selling point old BC will be, at least for 95% of gamers.

I'm guessing it might be important to folks who have substantial XBOX library - BC is sort of expected from new consoles these days.

But even without BC angle, if there is to be Helix versions of the games, that are fine tuned for its hardware, as opposed to general PC port, then having both console and PC (that can run your existing library) in the same device might potentially be interesting proposition for many PC gamers.