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Microsoft is pivoting its Xbox strategy to address the "RAMageddon" crisis by re-evaluating the Project Helix console's cost structure and exploring radically different business models to ensure affordability. This shift moves away from a purely premium hardware approach toward flexible plans and partnerships designed to lower entry barriers for mass audiences amidst rising memory and storage costs. The industry-wide supply constraints are forcing a fundamental rethink of console economics, prioritizing accessibility over high-end specifications alone.

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Xbox exploring ‘radically different’ console business models

The VergeJune 10, 20265 min read

The RAMageddon crisis has got Microsoft rethinking its Xbox console hardware business. Xbox CEO Asha Sharma and Xbox strategy chief Matthew Ball have both revealed this week that Microsoft is re-evaluating plans for its next-generation Project Helix console and exploring "radically different" console business models in the meantime. "We are working very hard to rethink everything that we can about Helix, which is a console we are committed to shipping, and we are very cognizant of the ways in which we need to change as a company to make sure it is affordable, to make sure that it's flexible," said Ball in an interview with The Game Business … Read the full story at The Verge.

The RAMageddon crisis has got Microsoft rethinking its Xbox console hardware business. Xbox CEO Asha Sharma and Xbox strategy chief Matthew Ball have both revealed this week that Microsoft is re-evaluating plans for its next-generation Project Helix console and exploring “radically different” console business models in the meantime. “We are working very hard to rethink everything that we can about Helix, which is a console we are committed to shipping, and we are very cognizant of the ways in which we need to change as a company to make sure…

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