Microsoft couldn’t hit a target of around $100.
“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 deviceMicrosoft delivered
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 cost,” reveals Spencer.Microsoft wanted to aim for around $129 or $99 for this Xbox streaming device, says Spencer, and hints that bundling a controller with the streaming console, as well as Microsoft’s silicon component choices, had pushed the price up closer to the $299 Xbox Series S.
The choice to bundle a controller matches what Microsoft traditionally does with its Xbox consoles and was also Google’s original approach to puttingon TVs. But a cloud gaming TV stick or puck could support any controller you have if the hardware supports Bluetooth, so it’s interesting Microsoft specifically wanted to bundle an Xbox controller, likely to make the user experience feel more seamless.
Now it looks like it’ll be quite some time before we see anything similar. “Will we do a streaming device at some point? I suspect we will, but I think it’s years away,” said Spencer in a
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