New CEO of Xbox Asha Sharma pushing the new messaging of "a renewed commitment to Xbox starting with the console..." out of the gate.

Great start to the morning with Team Xbox, where we talked about our commitment to the return of Xbox including Project Helix, the code name for our next generation console.

Project Helix will lead in performance and play your Xbox and PC games. Looking forward to chatting about this more with partners and studios at my first GDC next week!

The team also published a little logo teaser video.

Scorpio was a cooler name.

The takeaway here though is the confirmation that this will be some sort of hybrid machine to allow Xbox and PC gaming. My buddy Logan Moore pointed out to me though that this has the potential to paint themselves deeper in this corner. If Steam games work on this box, Steam gets the money from game sales, not Xbox. It's the same boat as Game Pass saying you don't need to buy our games, just subscribe for them.

But for me, the part I want to know is if this console will have a disc drive. The backward compatibility story that Xbox has written so well these last two gens is at risk if they offer no disc drive,

I'm getting more antsy about what Xbox's messaging will be this summer.