Updated:

Nov 16, 2022 3:35 pm

Posted:

Nov 16, 2022 3:29 pm

Microsoft's streaming-only Xbox console, codenamed Project Keystone, was enactment connected hold due to the fact that it was excessively costly to produce.

Speaking to The Verge (and spotted by VGC), Xbox brag Phil Spencer said Microsoft couldn't make a streaming-only console it could merchantability for a inexpensive capable price. Spencer hoped to merchantability Project Keystone for astir $99 to $129, and adjacent though Microsoft takes a deed connected each console it sells, the streaming-only instrumentality simply outgo excessively much.

"The console we built that radical person seen, Keystone, was much costly than we wanted it to beryllium erstwhile we really built it retired with the hardware that we had inside," Spencer said. "We decided to absorption that team’s efforts connected delivering the astute TV streaming app."

Especially arsenic Xbox already offers a cheaper adjacent procreation console successful the Series S, which retails for $299 compared to the Series X's $499, Spencer said Microsoft would request to merchantability Project Keystone for importantly cheaper to marque it a viable enactment for customers.

"I don’t privation to denote pricing specifically, but I deliberation you’ve got to beryllium $129, $99, determination successful determination for that to marque consciousness successful my view," helium said.

Xbox has doubled down connected its inaugural to marque gaming arsenic disposable and accessible arsenic possible, moving the enactment to play "on Xbox" beyond consoles by besides including PC, mobile, the aforementioned astute TV app, and truthful on.

Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelancer. He'll speech astir The Witcher each day.