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\nRemember Microsoft’s Xbox cloud gaming device, codenamed Keystone? The one that got announced in 2021, was cancelled in its original form a year later, then showed up on Phil Spencer’s shelf after that, bamboozling everyone? Well if you’ve ever wondered what it could have looked like in more detail, a newly surfaced patent might have some answers.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe patent in question<\/a> was originally filed with the US Patent and Trademark Office in June 2022 – several months after Microsoft announced it would no longer be proceeding with Keystone in its existing form – and features designs for a proposed machine only referred to as an “electronic console device”. There’s nothing explicitly linking to the document to Keystone, but Windows Central<\/a> claims that’s precisely what it is.\n<\/p>\n

\nA side-by-side comparison with the “old prototype” version of Keystone that appeared on Phil Spencer’s desk in October 2022<\/a> also supports that claim, with both the patent and prototype version featuring the same front panel.\n<\/p>\n

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Remember Microsoft’s Xbox cloud gaming device, codenamed Keystone? The one that got announced in 2021, was cancelled in its original form a year later, then showed up on Phil Spencer’s shelf after that, bamboozling everyone? Well if you’ve ever wondered what it could have looked like in more detail, a newly surfaced patent might have some answers. The patent in question was originally filed with the US Patent and Trademark Office in June 2022 – several months after Microsoft announced it would no longer be proceeding with Keystone in its existing form – and features designs for a proposed machine only referred to as an “electronic console device”. There’s nothing explicitly linking to the document to Keystone, but Windows Central claims that’s precisely what it…<\/p>\n

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