Microsoft is reportedly aiming for the stars with the next Xbox, which is (according to rumours) set to deliver performance on par with a high-end gaming PC costing around $3,000. But at a significantly lower price, of course.
This info comes to us from Moore's Law Is Dead, which explained in its latest podcast how Project Helix is essentially a "high-end PC" packaged as a console. Under the hood, Microsoft is said to be using a custom-designed APU from AMD based on RDNA 5 architecture, which could potentially deliver an insane amount of power.
As for the price tag, Helix is said to cost somewhere between $1,000 and $1,500. So it certainly won't be cheap, but if it can actually deliver on the same level as a computer that's two or three times as expensive? Well, then the console will seem like quite a bargain. It's a bold ambition, if it turns out to be true.
What do you think, can Microsoft pull this off?