console hardware

Microsoft’s next-generation Xbox, Project Helix, was introduced with a tantalizingly broad promise: a living-room machine that plays both Xbox console games and PC games. That prospect once made a Steam-enabled Xbox sound like the natural endpoint of Microsoft’s cross-platform strategy. By July...

Sony’s PlayStation 6, once widely anticipated for 2027, may not arrive until 2028 or even 2029 as Sony weighs a global memory shortage, rising component costs, AI-driven demand, and the risk of launching next-generation hardware at a price mainstream console buyers will reject. The delay remains...

Microsoft’s gaming leadership has flipped the script this week: a senior AI executive is now running Xbox, the longtime face of the division is stepping aside, and the new leaders are promising a “Return to Xbox” that explicitly starts with hardware, culture, and a resistance to what they call...

Microsoft’s Xbox division is openly signaling a pivot: the company’s next console generation will be positioned as premium, curated and technically ambitious — and that shift looks likely to push retail prices well above today’s norms while tightening the technical ties between Xbox, Windows and...