An Xbox cloud streaming console that never saw the light source of day has appeared in a new patent filing .
Back in 2021 , Microsoft announce that it was working on the loss of an low-priced cyclosis - focused Xbox console , codenamed ‘ Keystone ’ , that would beam Xbox Game Pass content to your living room .
The company ultimately determine to bin the idea in former 2022 , with Xbox bossPhil Spencer claimingthat his party was ineffectual to hit the $ 100 to $ 130 selling price sweet spot . Other than a tantalising glimpse at the front of the box supplied by Mr Spence himself ( see above range ) , that was that – until now .
Windows Centralhas spotteda Microsoftpatentthat reveals what the Xbox Keystone would have looked like – albeit in typically crude pencil - sketch patent fashion .
As you’re able to see , it ’s a fairly flat , straight machine with a circular motif on the top . Around front there was to be the familiar Xbox logotype force button , as well as a USB - A port , which conveniently cater a sense of scale .
As does the representative of back of the Keystone cabinet , which would have featured HDMI , Ethernet , and power larboard . Is that an Xbox controller pairing buttons we see on the side of the console table ? Why , yes it is .
The console would ostensibly have sit down on a circular plate , lifting its edges off the basis .
That ’s it for firm info , unfortunately . There are no inside information on the internal configuration of the Xbox Keystone , so we ’ll never eff if it was a fairly dumb internet box or something a little more bespoke .
