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Microsoft’s new Xbox chief<\/a> says the next-gen console will play Xbox titles and PC video games.<\/p>\n Asha Sharma tweeted<\/a> in regards to the gaming {hardware}, code-named “Mission Helix,” and tipped one main functionality that\u2019ll little doubt increase eyebrows.\u00a0\u201cMission Helix will lead in efficiency and play your Xbox and PC video games,\u201d she wrote, with out elaborating. <\/p>\n Sharma stated she’ll be “chatting about this extra with companions and studios” at her first Sport Builders Convention (GDC) subsequent week in San Francisco, an annual gathering for online game studios and creators.\u00a0<\/p>\n She’s not scheduled to current at GDC, however Jason Ronald, VP of Subsequent Technology on the Xbox crew, is internet hosting a session on March 11<\/a> that can cowl “the imaginative and prescient shaping the way forward for Xbox and the way we’re constructing a extra versatile, linked future for sport creators and gamers in every single place.”<\/p>\n Sharma dropped the tease following rumors<\/a> that the next-generation Xbox is being designed to run video games from Valve\u2019s Steam retailer. If true, it might be a game-changing choice, since consoles are normally locked-down ecosystems configured to solely use the producer’s digital retailer. Final yr, now-former Xbox President Sarah Bond stated Microsoft was dedicated to delivering<\/a> an Xbox expertise “not locked to a single retailer, or tied to 1 gadget.”<\/p>\n