Xbox fans person been waiting for a glimpse of a new, standalone Game Pass streaming instrumentality called “Keystone” since it was archetypal teased astatine E3 2021. Now Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer whitethorn person conscionable fixed it to them successful his latest shelfie. It looks similar a micro-Xbox Series S.

Microsoft has dilatory been bringing Xbox Game Pass to more and much devices done unreality streaming. First it was phones. More precocious it was definite brands of Smart TVs similar Samsung’s. Earlier this year, the institution confirmed it was moving connected a smaller add-on that radical could bargain to watercourse games to immoderate display. It’s called Keystone, and truthful acold Microsoft hasn’t shown what it looks like, perchance until today.

“Vault Boy near the structure and stopped by my bureau to observe the #Fallout25 Anniversary,” Spencer tweeted on with a photograph of a clump of Xbox swag connected a shelf. “Congratulations to the @Fallout @Bethesda teams connected this large milestone for an iconic franchise.” The Microsoft enforcement has made a wont retired of teasing upcoming reveals successful the inheritance of his pictures, however, and it didn’t instrumentality fans agelong to spot a strange-looking achromatic instrumentality adjacent the top:

It looks precisely similar an Xbox Series S, lone overmuch smaller. A people connected the near could beryllium an Xbox awesome portion 1 connected the close seems similar a USB port. It seems akin successful proportionality to a Google Chromecast oregon Valve’s present defunct Steam Link, though it’s hard to archer based connected the photograph alone. It surely looks a shadiness smaller than the Xbox controller conscionable to its left. Notably, the Series S was first revealed connected Spencer’s shelf arsenic well. A effect to Spencer’s tweet by the authoritative Xbox account seems to connote it whitethorn beryllium an older prototype.

While erstwhile speculation was that Xbox’s Game Pass streaming instrumentality would beryllium a smaller stick-sized dongle, the institution told Windows Central successful May that it had pivoted to a caller “approach” for Keystone. “We person made the determination to pivot distant from the existent iteration of the Keystone device,” a spokesperson for the institution said astatine the time. “We volition instrumentality our learnings and refocus our efforts connected a caller attack that volition let america to present Xbox Cloud Gaming to much players astir the satellite successful the future.”

It’s inactive not wide precisely what the institution meant by that, and it’s ever imaginable that Spencer’s photograph contiguous was 1.) not meant to tease thing oregon 2.) was teasing thing wholly antithetic from Keystone. Microsoft has besides reportedly been moving connected a standalone optical thrust attachment for the all-digital versions of its Xbox Series X/S. Both look unlikely.

“It’s astir apt a mistake connected my part,” Spencer said successful a Kinda Funny Games appearance successful July erstwhile describing the easter eggs fans look for connected his shelf. He claimed determination was nary thought down what appears connected it during his video calls and different photos, and that it was simply a postulation of gaming manufacture gifts and signifiers. The hosts were little than convinced.