For nylig delte Xbox CEO Asha Sharma et internt memo, der advarer om hårde beslutninger i løbet af det næste stykke tid. Ideen er at brandet har brug for et større reset for at sikre solid fremgang, og det vil resultere i fyringer, i aflysninger og måske sågar det der er værre...
Men i selvsamme memo lader det til at Sharma bekræfter, at de sigter efter en lancering af Project Helix, deres næste konsol, i løbet af efteråret 2027. Om ikke andet skriver hun dette:
"We are in a hardware component crisis. When I joined as CEO in February, the price we paid for console storage components was over 2x as high as we paid last fall. These costs have since doubled again. And as we plan for the 2027 holiday season, we expect another significant increase, taking us over 5x the prices we paid only two years earlier. Memory costs have followed a broadly similar trajectory. While the entire industry is facing a components crisis, we believe we have been impacted more greatly than many of our peers due to the choices we made over the last half decade. We are currently unable to make as many consoles as players want to buy, and we need a new business model and partnerships for hardware as we remain committed to Helix."
Det ville være mærkeligt at pointere netop denne periode, efteråret (eller "Holiday) 2027, uden nogen grund, så mon ikke det er der konsollen lanceres?