Microsoft management is very heavy , and a number of his recent business decisions are based on attracting more people to this subscription service. One of those projects was called Keystone, a special streaming device that allowed Game Pass customers to play Xbox games without an Xbox console. After the first the project finally happened . That team instead shifted focus to smart TV streaming software, and Keystone disappeared into the void. Today, A patent has surfaced showing what a Keystone might look like.
This has more details on the project than we have from Xbox management. The only footage we’ve seen so far was a teaser image of Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer. in 2022. But now we can see that a squat, square device would have a circular pattern above and a circular plate below. It also featured the expected cable ports and controller pairing button.
Microsoft did for new equipment recently, but few of them stick the landing. At the latest Summer Games Fest, even the company’s Xbox hardware announcement gets a refresh after a leak hinted at bigger plans. Hopefully Xbox can score a big win on the hardware side soon. For now, a glimpse of what might have been is a neat background on the company and its development process.
