VGC: The Video Game Podcast · Stak

The next Xbox announced and Pokopia excels!

·1 hr 30 min·5 clips
Andy Robinson explains why Project Helix could be the perfect living room PC for gamers tired of expensive upgrades.
The hosts discuss Microsoft's announcement of Project Helix, a PC-console hybrid for Xbox, debating its market appeal and challenges. They also cover PlayStation's shift away from PC ports, the shutdown of High Guard after a controversial Game Awards reveal, and the critical success of Pokemon Picopia.

As heard by us

Loose, funny platform talk that still lands on something real.

VGC spends this episode on Xbox's next console and the platform strategy under it, then keeps circling the harder questions around first-party pressure, revenue incentives, and why changes like this take years to show up in public.

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Why you'd press play

Xbox's next console gets the pub-table treatment: it will play PC games, but not games from PlayStation.

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