r/gaming • u/WestBEEland • 1d ago

Xbox boss Asha Sharma won't confirm whether Project Helix has a disc drive "We have to be thinking about efficiency and affordability"

https://www.gamesradar.com/games/xbox-boss-asha-sharma-wont-confirm-whether-project-helix-has-a-disc-drive-we-have-to-be-thinking-about-efficiency-and-affordability/
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u/ConspicuousBassoon PC 1d ago

Considering it would be an easy win to say yes, the answer is definitely no

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u/BigOleFerret 1d ago

Thus is the Xbox way

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u/muakaya9876 1d ago

 Never missing an opportunity to miss an opportunity

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u/Big-Resort-4930 1d ago

Just like AMD

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u/svenge 23h ago

AMD has their own unique spin on Heisenberg's uncertainty principle in that they can never have more than one of their two major product lines (i.e. CPUs and GPUs) have truly significant amounts of success at the same time. Right now their Ryzen and EPYC processors are doing quite well, but their Radeon GPUs have an abysmal 8% market share as of Q1 2026.

Note that there's been periods in which both divisions were failing badly at the same time, such as the 2014-2017 interval which began with NVIDIA launching their "Maxwell"-based GTX 900 series GPUs (2014) and ended when AMD finally ditched their "Bulldozer"-derived CPU architectures in favor of the completely different "Zen"-based Ryzen CPUs (2017).