Katsuhiro Harada picked the perfect room to say the quiet part out loud. Speaking at the Console Game Developers Conference 2026 in Seoul on Monday, the longtime Tekken boss looked out at the audience, noticed a senior Xbox official sitting there, and went for it. “Since a senior Xbox official is actually in attendance here

At a developer panel in Seoul, Katsuhiro Harada called Series S development “extra work for a slightly weaker child” with a senior Xbox official in the room, and joked he’s scared Microsoft will make a “Helix S.” Cyberpunk 2077’s Paweł Sasko pushed back, and the Stellar Blade studio’s CTO asked for early Helix dev kits.