Insideren SneakersSO, som tidligere rapporterede om, at Xbox ville gå multiformat måneder før det blev afsløret, har talt ret omfattende om Project Helix ovre på Neogaf. Som svar på nogle forhåbninger om flere eksklusivtitler med denne nye generation af Xbox sagde SneakersSO, at der ikke er nogen "to get the genie back in the bottle" og at eksklusivtitler simpelthen ikke vil fungere for det, Project Helix er tænkt som.
"The problem is, we are thinking about this as if its a next console and console generation - its not," skrev SneakersSO. "This is basically a PC that uses the Windows Full Screen Experience (FSE) that we just saw in the Rog Ally X to emulate a console experience. The 'native' Xbox SKU, that had an updated build target that developers were building games for, that's going away, or rather - there's no Xbox Helix build target, its just a UWP build. You're just shipping a game for the Windows Store. You still have access to your Xbox library thanks to BC emulation, but as far as having a 'native' Xbox console SKU you built your game towards, that's done.".
"It's a set-top box version of the Rog Ally X, only its been engineered by MS, will be pretty expensive, and is being made for a very niche audience. Anyone thinking this is meant for a mass market target audience just has not been paying attention," fortsatte insideren. Det blev også påpeget, at dette intet har at gøre med den nye Xbox-chef Asha Sharma, da hun blev hentet ind, efter at midlerne allerede var afsat til Helix, hvilket betyder, at hun har fået til opgave at føre det til ende.
"They are under no illusion this is gonna be some Xbox 360 moment. That doesn't mean it can't be cool and satisfy their die-hards," sagde SneakersSO. Hvis det er det, Project Helix er, så vil det være nok til at tilfredsstille de Xbox-fans, der kun ønsker at købe en Xbox. Men de mennesker, der ønsker de gamle dage med konsolkrig, vil blive efterladt, da det ser ud til, at der ikke kommer nogen revolution med Project Helix, og Xbox ved, at de er ude af ræset.