What Is the Xbox Streaming Stick, and When Will It Be Released?
News on the Xbox Streaming Stick has been rather scant as of late. Xbox might have benched this project in favor of others. With that said, let’s take a look at the available information about the Xbox Streaming Stick and see what it can teach us about the future of Xbox gaming.
What Is the Xbox Streaming Stick? When Will the Xbox Streaming Stick Be Released? Xbox Streaming Stick: Pros and Cons
The Xbox Streaming Stick was planned as dongle-like device that’s meant to plug straight into a TV and allow you to play games via cloud streaming. Essentially, it would be like a tiny console that will work in concert with Xbox Game Pass subscriptions to stream games from the cloud.
Like the Xbox Series S, it will not be able to read discs, so the physical copies of your games won’t work with it. The Xbox Streaming Stick was reportedly planned to be the next step in Xbox’s plan to move gaming into a purely digital direction—a direction that also moves away from traditional consoles.
As of April 2023, no one really knows when the Xbox Streaming Stick will be released. In early 2022, there were rumors and hints that the Xbox Streaming Stick (sometimes referred to by its codename: Project Keystone) would be released in 2023. However, new evidence has revealed otherwise.
In October 2022, Phil Spencer (the CEO of Microsoft Gaming) mentioned during an interview that the idea for the Xbox Streaming Stick was temporarily shelved in favor of putting resources into the Xbox app that is integrated into Samsung smart TVs.
In this same interview clip, Spencer mentioned that he has a prototype of the Xbox Streaming Stick, which confirms its existence beyond a shadow of a doubt. However, that prototype has seemingly been sitting around while other
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