The next Xbox console is codenamed ‘Project Helix’ and will play PC games

The new CEO of Microsoft Gaming, Asha Sharma, has revealed that the Xbox next generation consolewith code name ‘Project Helix’will offer leadership in performance, in addition to maintaining the reproduction of games for both console and PC.

Just a few weeks after taking over as CEO of Microsoft Gaming, following the retirement of Phil Spencer, Sharma has provided information for the first time about the company’s new generation of console, as part of his commitment to “the return of Xbox.”

Specifically, he has pointed out that the new console has codename ‘Project Helix’ and it will be “performance leader“, as he stressed in a publication on the social network It will play both Xbox and PC games.

Great start to the morning with Team Xbox, where we talked about our commitment to the return of Xbox including Project Helix, the code name for our next generation console.

Project Helix will lead in performance and play your Xbox and PC games. Looking forward to chatting about… pic.twitter.com/Xx5rpVnAZI

— Asha (@asha_shar) March 5, 2026

This last statement continues Xbox’s line of offering a gaming experience. game on multiple platforms. However, it distances itself from PlayStation, which is considering resuming its strategy of exclusive games for your PlayStation 5 consoleso they will not reach other platforms such as PC, as has recently been revealed.

With all this, Sharma has added that will talk more about ‘Project Helix’ with partners and studios during the celebration of the Games Developer Conference (GDC) during next week. In fact, Xbox’s vice president of Next Generation, Jason Ronald, will give a talk next Wednesday, within the framework of GDC, under the title ‘Building for the future with Xbox’, where it is expected to be able to offer more information about the new console.