With the death of Keystone, will Xbox give up its streaming console plans forever?

This week on the Eurogamer Newscast, we talk about the cancelled Xbox venture Keystone: Microsoft’s plans to launch a comparatively low-cost streaming console.

Keystone popped up yesterday in an outdated patent which detailed the potential {hardware} in recent element, although now we have after all seen it within the wild earlier than – on Xbox boss Phil Spencer’s shelf. Spencer has addressed Keystone’s cancellation, and blamed it being shelved (actually) on Microsoft not with the ability to make it an inexpensive sufficient proposition.

However does the top of Keystone imply Microsoft is abandoning its cloud gaming plans fully? No, after all not – and Xbox Cloud Gaming stays. And sooner or later, as web speeds enhance and streaming video games turns into extra frequent, might we see Keystone Model 2? Becoming a member of me this week are Eurogamer’s Ed Nightingale and Victoria Kennedy to debate.