Microsoft’s Xbox streaming console ‘Keystone’ was pushed back because of its price
by Tom Warren from The Verge - All Posts on (#65VW6)
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer has revealed why the company delayed its plans to introduce an Xbox streaming console, speaking to Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel on The Verge's Decoder podcast this week.
It was more expensive than we wanted it to be when we actually built it out with the hardware that we had inside," said Spencer, discussing the Keystone prototype device that recently appeared on his office shelves. We decided to focus that team's effort on delivering the smart TV streaming app."
Microsoft delivered an Xbox TV app in partnership with Samsung instead, but it doesn't mean the idea for a streaming-only Xbox console is fully over. With Keystone, we're still focused on it and watching when we can get the right...