The patent for this device dates back to June 2022
Those who have been following Xbox news for longer will know that In 2021 a Microsoft device was announced which was intended to allow gamers to stream Xbox games to TVs and monitors without the need for a console, which never came to fruition as such because, as reported at the time, Microsoft was unable to produce it at an affordable cost to sell it at a reasonable price, which caused it to lose its priority.
In this way, the project known with the code Keystone It ended up being discarded, leaving those interested wanting to know what this project would have been like. However, it seems that in 2024 this will become a reality even if it is with a simple image, since it has been made known the patent that Microsoft filed in June 2022 and that shows the design of this device at least in one of its phases.
This device was discarded due to the inability to get it out at a profitable price
In this way, even though Microsoft's focus now seems to be aimed at creating its own portable console in the wake of Nintendo Switch and Steam Deck, through Windows Central we have been able to see how They imagined this streaming device on Xboxwhich, as you can see in the image below, would have been square and with a circular shape at the top similar to the Xbox Series S ventilation grilles.
This would have been the supposed Xbox streaming console
It should be noted that this patent was presented in June 2022, while the cessation of development of this device was announced at the end of that same year, so it cannot be ruled out that the device could have undergone more changes in those months.
Be that as it may, although this product will not finally become a reality, at least in the short term, it cannot be said that Microsoft is in the lurch, since the company is taking care of reinforce your current consoles with new games and with improvements and updates to the models to make them as competitive as possible.
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