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Here's what Xbox's ill-fated cloud gaming console might have looked like, according to newly surfaced patent


Remember Microsoft's Xbox cloud gaming device, codenamed Keystone? The one that got announced in 2021, was cancelled in…

Watch on YouTube The patent, however, reveals a lot more of the design Microsoft was at one point apparently considering for its cloud-streaming games console. It's bears much in common with the current Xbox Series S, albeit with that machines horizontal footprint compacted into square. When Microsoft addressed the progress of Keystone back in May 2022, it said it had "made the decision to pivot away from the current iteration" of the device, and would refocus its efforts on a "new approach".

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