How much will the new Xbox cost?
In the summer of 2021, Xbox boss Phil Spencer announced a streaming device. This is still in the planning stage. The reason here is a question of costs, because up to now the production would not have been efficient enough. Now Spencer has given an approximate price.
No Xbox is required for new Xbox
This is certainly irritating at first, but in fact the upcoming Xbox device is not a console, but a streaming devicewhich allows you to stream Xbox games to TVs or monitors without owning the Xbox Series X/S, for example.
Codenamed “Keystone,” the device is probably currently with some employees for testing, and it was also spotted in a photo of Spencer’s office. Findings so far: The device works very well, but so far it has been too expensiveto put it into mass production.
Nevertheless, the streaming device is not off the table yet. Both the software and the hardware would still be fine-tuned. He already has one price range in the sense that he wants to achieve with “Keystone”.
“I don’t want to announce any specific prices, but I think it has to be $99 – $129 It’s somewhere in between, so I think it makes sense, and we just haven’t been there,” Spencer said.
In the video you can get an impression of the Xbox Elite Wireless Controller Series 2:
Xbox: No big adjustment necessary
The upcoming streaming device isn’t just about the hardware itself, it’s also user interface must fit and here Xbox fans probably do not have to get used to it. The user interface should not differ from that of the Xbox console.
However, it is still uncertain whether Phil Spencer will stick to the decision. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal last month, the Xbox boss said the release of the device was “years away” could be (Source: Wall Street Journal).