It looked like that for example “mini Xbox” from Microsoft to play in the cloud was ready. A recent picture posted by Phil Spencer showed it on one of the shelves in his house, and it all seemed to point to his imminent release.
The top manager of the Xbox division, however, wanted to clarify the situation: that device was a prototype, and the “Keystone” project that gave this product its name will take years to arrive (if it ever does).
Microsoft focuses on Samsung TVs
Spencer attended the conference this week Live technology of the Wall Street Journal, and there he cleared up the rumors about that theoretical mini-console.
As the manager explained, Keystone is the codename for his streaming console, a device Low price which would not allow local play, no installation of games on it, and which would focus on cloud gaming.
But things have changed. “At the end of spring, we moved on to working with Samsung,” Spencer explained. “We’ve put an app on Samsung TVs that lets you play Xbox and games I still have the prototype [de Keystone]; It’s on the shelf behind my computer.
This dispelled doubts about that famous image, and when asked if they were thinking of offering that “mini Xbox” at one point, Spencer said he “suspected” they would “but I think it will take years. “.
It is unfortunate that this option has been postponed indefinitely and now it remains to be seen whether this approach of putting an app on Samsung Smart TVs ends up spreading to other companies.
The idea makes sense, because your next console may not be a console after all, but your TV. It will be interesting to see how that strategy from Microsoft turns out.
