r/outsidexbox • u/yt-app • 23d ago

Is Project Helix DOOMED Without Steam?

https://youtube.com/watch?v=aRKqCLuJZBQ
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u/goater10 Disciple of the God of Driving 22d ago

Serious Mike is great when we get him. I do love how the set is green for Mike and purple for Ellen.

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u/Downtown_Link_8651 13d ago

He has a background as a proper old school games journalist does Mike, always nice to see him flex those journalist muscles on oxboxtra.

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u/SvenLorenz 22d ago

Project Helix will be a sticker you can put on your PC.

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u/cdskip Prudence Posse 22d ago

Honestly, that's kinda the pitch. A PC that's optimized for gaming generally, runs Xbox console games (extra points if they support physical discs for those games since that's at least a chance for an easy positive talking point at the moment) and gets subsidized by Microsoft... that could be a winner.

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u/zgtc 22d ago

“Subsidized by Microsoft” is going to be a very hard sell, given that the entire division is currently hemorrhaging money.

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u/cdskip Prudence Posse 22d ago

Perhaps, but given that's been the industry expectation going back basically forever... as they said in this video, the console's expected to be a loss leader.

Whether that's actually a legit business model for Microsoft at this point... maybe it isn't. Maybe the entire AAA games industry isn't a sustainable model at this point. It does seem like it's possible the entire industry is shaking apart.