Insider claims Project Helix will be "pretty expensive" and is being made for a "very niche audience"

[Redaktion]

While Microsoft has yet to reveal the price for Project Helix, an insider claims that it will be very expensive and is being made for a specific audience.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Insider-claims-Project-Helix-will-be-pretty-expensive-and-is-being-made-for-a-very-niche-audience.1245176.0.html

[Nemesis7884]

this could be interesting tbh...
a highly optimized living room gaming pc with a stripped down windows fully focused on gaming and optimization for like 1000-1500 bucks could be really interesting

[Pal]

What worries me is the "pretty expensive part" and "very niche audience".. we already have $1500 handhelds and $2500 laptops.. this is looking like an Max or Ultra apple APU.. which are like in $4000 machines.

If this going to be their last device from their hardware division, is this going to be subsidized at all? Even their own subsidized Xbox series x had a price increase and is almost $1k now.

Also, where are people getting the idea this is going to be found in $1000-$1500 range? That just seems way too good to be true for an entire system this powerful to be that cheap.

The specs alone indicate rtx 5080 level hardware (in raster, faster in RT) in a 408 mm^2 mega APU. This is the roughly the same size as strix halo except on TSMC 3nm instead of 4nm. Plus 48 GB of GDDR7 memory.

I'm expecting strix halo pricing minimum here, so like $3000-$4000 unless there is serious subsidy going on but haven't seen any evidence of that yet. Even then, $2500 with gamepass & copilot subscription for years..