Microsoft has confirmed that the upcoming Xbox Showcase which is set to take place on June 7 won’t feature any new information or details regarding their next gen console codenamed Project Helix, Xbox Chief Content Officer Matt Booty has stated on the latest Xbox Podcast. According to him, this year’s Xbox Showcase will be all about the games and will not feature any of their overall strategic plans for the company’s future under the leadership of the new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma.
So even though Microsoft had unveiled Project Helix only a few months ago, don’t expect any new info on the console anytime soon.
“We’ll be very clear about what platforms a game is coming to and want to continue the precedent,” Booty said. “I think we’ve got a good system going, where we make it clear in Showcase.”
“We really want to focus on the teams and on the games. This is not going to be a place where we talk about strategy broadly. There are certainly some strategic things out there and some things we want to bring clarity to. But the focus here is on the games,” he said. “For the long term, we want to make the right decisions, not fast decisions. There won’t be Helix news. Helix will not be in this showcase. We want to get everything about that right.”
The Xbox Games Showcase event will be swiftly followed by an Xbox Direct event which will extensively focus on the upcoming Gears of War: E-Day, one of the most anticipated releases from Microsoft this year. So if you’re a fan of the Gears series, you can’t afford to miss the upcoming Xbox Direct event which will likely contain a new trailer, gameplay videos and a lot more.
And one of the titles confirmed at this year’s Xbox Games Showcase is the Fable reboot which has been recently delayed to release in next year.
