Xbox CEO refuses to confirm whether next console Helix will have a disc drive

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma will not confirm if its next console system, codenamed Project Helix, will have a disc.

The short version

• Talking to the BBC, Sharma kept very much on script, stressing that whether players valued physical or digital games, what's important is that "your libraries can go wherever you are".
• "Look, whether you play physical games, digital games, it's really important that your libraries can go wherever you are," Sharma said when asked about the future of physical media.
• "And we're really committed to preserving great gameplay.

What happened

If you think about all around Europe, there are stacks of games on everybody's shelves. And so today, we're announcing the ability for players, for a thousand titles with physical discs, to be able to have a digital entitlement.

Why it matters

And so they get the wonderful goodness that comes from digital libraries, but in the form of the physical libraries that they also have.

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