
Kenneth Shepard writes: "Following reports that Microsoft will be adjusting the Xbox One’s reserved computing power to better help with the parity between the system and the PlayStation 4, industry insider Ahsan “Thuway” Rasheed tweeted that developers were apparently angry regarding the gap between the two systems."

Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.

Xbox boss Asha Sharma has discussed how component shortages will impact the company's plans for Project Helix.
This kind of proves this is an after thought product, most products like this are in r&d 5 years before they start mass producing. So they typically have the cost of components and things worked out long before assembly starts.
This is an assumption still, but I wouldn’t be surprised if project helix is similar to Scalebound,perfect dark and sod3. They had an idea but no actual execution other than concept stage. Being impacted by the ram shortage likely would also put this device 3-4 years out.
I’m not even sure MS has that endurance with Xbox yet
Helix is going to be stupidly expensive
Instead of leaning into smarter upscaling techniques they're brute forcing hardware that will cost them dearly and it remains to be seen if it's genuinely going to provide a meaningful differential
I know in the oc.doace people like to brag about not using frame gen or dlss to get to high on a game but for the majority of players they happily use those technologies without a second thought
That's going to be ps6 vs Helix
It's called systematic inflationary. Yes we get it Microsoft, keep raising in the name ofall kinds of stuffs
Honestly if there was thing I learned from this generation is that new consoles arnt day one anymore.
I can wait 1-3 years.

In an exclusive interview with Game File, new(ish) Xbox boss Asha Sharma and Xbox chief content officer Matt Booty explain their vision for Microsoft’s gaming division
A good start would be to release games to go with the console. My Xbox Series X has gathered dust virtually from launch. My advice would be to ditch a next console and release games on PC, PlayStation and Switch. Another idea would be a hybrid console based on Xbox Series X tech and go the same route as Nintendo. Another idea would be to pull out of gaming altogether. Plenty of options there.
Ironic that devs were able to bully Microsoft. The system was designed to give Microsoft control over the market.
I think if devs really were complaining, it shows that the gap in power is much bigger than certain people wanted to admit. Hopefully this new shift will allow a bit more parity between PS4 and X1 games, but it's pretty obvious where the superior multiplats are going to be.
Damn the developers are just bullyin' Microsoft.
Would have thought any such complaints would have been responded to before and not after the fact. After there was public evidence of shortcoming. MS just comes off looking bullheaded and out of touch. Slow to react.
Just like they were in regards to the DRM issue as well as handling indies. Responding after the damage was done.
If this is true, it just continues to show how behind the times and a$$ backwards Microsoft are. Either that or they're so self-involved as a company that it required multiple development studios to pester them about this before they decided to do anything about it.
Every one of the Big 3 have been guilty of arrogance, but only Microsoft is guilty of sustained, subtle arrogance that never fades.
Step back and read this info again. There's some info that may not be immediately apparent.
-devs asking for more power. I've never read this concerning 360. This tells me devs are indeed annoyed with struggling to match the other console. And it also illustrates that MS didn't bother to talk to devs....at least devs outside their bubble of yes men.
-much of this issue is likely dues to forced kinect & maintaining 3 OS's.
-kinect & tv integration - if your a dev....do you look at these as resource hogs?