A while ago, rumors were circulating that Microsoft was working on a Xboxmini, a console project of reduced dimensions, low consumption and low cost that it was designed exclusively for the game in the dark, but this console has not yet been released from the official form to weigh that hubo evidence of its existence (in accordance with the terms of they). The fact is that now he is reborn from his ashes like a Phoenix bird in the shape of a patentrecently registered by Microsoft.
It’s normal that a company like Microsoft has plans for several Xbox consoles in the works, because even if in the end only some are presented to the company and put in stores, they usually have many concepts, tests and ideas that ultimately don’t work. not. come to fruition for some reason, as is the case with this Xbox mini, which we are not going to call “supposed” because it was confirmed a long time ago that it was a reality.
The Xbox Mini was a real project, and there is evidence
And it was his Jefazo from Microsoft’s Xbox division, Phil Spencer, who spoke about it in a video some time ago, directly saying that the project of this device was canceled and, in fact, we could see that he had a prototype right behind him on a shelf.
Spencer said at the time that although the project was canceled and the device would not see the light of day, it was intended to be a simple device designed for cloud gaming, and that they hoped to be able to sell it to a affordable price. price of $129. They did not achieve the objective, and it was precisely the ratio between production costs and price that led Microsoft to reject this project.
It is now back in patent form.
As we said, it has now been discovered that this Xbox Mini console for cloud gaming has reappeared at the patent office again; This was presented in June 2022 and accepted in December 2023, barely 7 months ago. The device has a square shape, about 15 centimeters on each side (a little larger than the NUC type mini PCs that we know well in the hardware ecosystem), and as we said, it was designed for cloud gaming, but the main thing is unknown about its characteristics.
From what we can see, it appears that the console would have a standard USB port on the front, while on the back it appears that it simply has an RJ-45 port for Internet connection, an HDMI output and a power connector, indicating that the power supply of the device would in this case be internal.
The fact that the project was abandoned a long time ago and now Microsoft has decided to register the patent may mean two things: on the one hand, it could be that the company has decided that it can now be profitable and that she got back to work. on it, which could mean that we would soon have news of this device (which, by the way, we do not even know if it would be called Xbox mini or something else). On the other hand, it could be that Microsoft simply wanted to register their intellectual property so that no one could copy them, but that it was an act of pure selfishness and in the end they would do nothing with it.
If it’s the first option (hopefully), we might have some news before the end of the year. We’ll see.
