Microsoft reportedly projects $1,200 to $1,800 price for 2028 Project Helix
We haven’t heard many details about Microsoft’s upcoming “Project Helix” gaming hardware since the company announced it in March as a device that will “play your Xbox and PC games.”
自微软三月份宣布“Project Helix”游戏硬件将能够“运行你的 Xbox 和 PC 游戏”以来，我们尚未听到关于该设备的更多细节。
In a new wide-ranging profile of Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, though, Fortune alludes to a dual release strategy for upcoming Microsoft gaming hardware, with “a next-generation handheld device” planned by the end of next year and a 2028 holiday season console release that could cost between $1,200 and $1,800.
然而，在《财富》杂志对 Xbox 首席执行官 Asha Sharma 的一篇深度人物专访中，提到了微软未来游戏硬件的双重发布策略：计划在明年年底推出一款“下一代掌机”，并计划在 2028 年假日季发布一款售价可能在 1200 美元至 1800 美元之间的主机。
That future console price range is based on what has “internally been projected” at the company, according to Fortune. But the price for consumers could come down if “Microsoft decides to subsidize the cost,” the outlet says, as many console makers have done in the past.
据《财富》报道，这一未来主机的价格区间是基于公司“内部预测”得出的。但该媒体指出，如果“微软决定补贴成本”（正如许多主机制造商过去所做的那样），那么消费者的实际购买价格可能会降低。
While a $1,200 starting price would be historically high for the game console market, even accounting for inflation, it also reflects a new normal: The slowdown in Moore’s Law and AI-driven component shortages mean cutting-edge gaming hardware just isn’t as cheap as it used to be.
尽管 1200 美元的起售价在游戏主机市场历史上处于高位，即便考虑到通货膨胀因素，这也反映了一种新常态：摩尔定律的放缓以及人工智能驱动的零部件短缺，意味着尖端游戏硬件已不再像过去那样便宜。
Fortune also reports that Microsoft is beset by internal clashes over whether its upcoming Helix handheld will run a “trimmed-down version of Windows Home”—akin to last year’s ROG Xbox Ally—or a bespoke operating system built and controlled by the Xbox group.
《财富》还报道称，微软内部正因即将推出的 Helix 掌机操作系统而陷入冲突：是运行类似于去年 ROG Xbox Ally 的“精简版 Windows Home”，还是运行由 Xbox 团队构建并控制的定制操作系统。
Fortune cites “people briefed on the clash” in reporting that one high-level executive threatened to cancel the handheld altogether if they were forced to use Windows. That threat seemingly helped lead to the current situation with the Xbox team “now largely controlling the direction of the operating system for the project,” Fortune writes, though Sharma said the two groups are still working closely together.
《财富》援引“了解此次冲突的人士”的话称，一位高管曾威胁说，如果被迫使用 Windows，他将彻底取消该掌机项目。据《财富》报道，这一威胁似乎促成了目前的局面，即 Xbox 团队“目前在很大程度上控制了该项目操作系统的方向”，尽管 Sharma 表示这两个团队仍在密切合作。
The profile also cites “people familiar with the strategy” in reporting that Xbox Game Pass will soon shift to a heavily tiered “a la carte” structure that lets subscribers pick and choose “add-ons for console-only games, cloud gaming, and multiplayer.”
该专访还援引“熟悉该战略的人士”的话称，Xbox Game Pass 即将转向一种高度分层的“点菜式”结构，允许订阅者自行选择“主机独占游戏、云游戏和多人联机等附加组件”。
Elsewhere in the wide-ranging profile, Fortune addresses concerns from “several current and former staff members” that Sharma was put in place merely to enact painful cuts before an impending sale of a spinoff of the Xbox group.
在这篇深度报道的其他部分，《财富》还提到了“几位现任和前任员工”的担忧，即 Sharma 被任命只是为了在 Xbox 部门即将分拆出售之前实施痛苦的裁员。
But the piece also quotes Microsoft executive Judson Althoff pushing back against that idea, saying, “We would not have put [Sharma] on a business we intend to sell. There’s going to be a ton of speculation about all this. Time will tell.”
但文章也引用了微软高管 Judson Althoff 对此观点的反驳，他表示：“我们不会把 [Sharma] 放在一个我们打算出售的业务上。关于这一切会有很多猜测，时间会证明一切。”