Patent reveals what Xbox’s game streaming device might have looked like

A newly unearthed patent has seemingly equipped the first appropriate check out Microsoft‘s shelved Xbox streaming machine.

First announced in 2021 and codenamed ‘Keystone’, the machine was being designed to let avid gamers stream Xbox video video games to TVs or shows with out the need for a console.

Nonetheless, Xbox deprioritised work on the machine after failing to supply it cheaply ample to have the flexibility to put it up for sale on the specified value.

A patent filed in June 2022 and uncovered by Windows Central seemingly reveals how Microsoft envisioned the machine on the time.

It was sq. with a circle type on prime, identical to the spherical vent on the Xbox Sequence S.

The doorway of the sector, which was as quickly as spotted in a photo posted by Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer, featured the Xbox power button and a USB-A port.

On the once more, there have been HDMI, ethernet, and power ports. The exact facet included what seems like a controller pairing button, and beneath there’s a spherical plate the machine sat on, identical to the one used for the Xbox Series X console.

In late 2022, Xbox boss Spencer said Microsoft had chosen to deprioritise development of Keystone because it was struggling to produce it cost effectively.

He suggested The Verge’s Decoder podcast that the company constructed Keystone and some staff took it home to strive it out nonetheless that whereas it labored properly, it was proving too dear to make and bundle with a controller.

“I don’t have to announce pricing notably, nonetheless I consider you’ve acquired to be $129, $99, like someplace in there for that to make sense personally, that we merely weren’t there,” Spencer said.

“We weren’t there with the controller. And I actually like the effort. The rationale it’s on my shelf is the crew rolled up their sleeves and in 9 months they constructed that issue. And a bunch of us took it home and it labored. It labored really, somewhat nicely.

“If you find yourself establishing new merchandise, it’s always about, do you could possibly have the becoming design? Do you could possibly have the becoming individual interface? Do you could possibly have the becoming purchaser proposition? And the shopper proposition comprises the worth, and I consider all of us knew that we’ve been a little bit of misplaced on value.”