yeah that rumor was only started by fanboys who want to see Xbox fail lol so glad Phil shut that down.

I would think that them saying they were going to have a full console back when they first revealed scarlett would be enough to debunk the myth. Nothing new here, except that apparently they aren't going to have a cheaper, streaming only version, which I thought MS also said they were going to have, or maybe that was just a rumor.

If MS leaves the console market, it won't be until after next gen. That should be obvious with the fact they're releasing Scarlett. Again though, nothing new gleaned from this article, so I don't see why you're celebrating as if you've suddenly won some long drawn out argument.

You do realize they already are 3rd party right? I mean where have you been? Even phil himself confirmed this.

***Scarlett was never supposed to be *THE* streaming console. ***

Based on rumors from people who got it all wrong? Stop listening to people online for rumors.

I didn't say Scarlett was going to be it, I said Scarlett put those rumors to rest by being even more.

***A streaming only console would never require such beefy specs***

Yeah, but the fact is that anyone thought they were working on hardware just for streaming, knowing what it would require versus what already existed. With phones, tablets, and the current Xbox being more than enough to do that, what company in their right mind would make one with limited features when they don't need to? Just sell the model that can do that plus more and requires no additional work.

That's why all those rumors got it 100% wrong and when they announced Scarlett would be it's own cloud provider, it became very easy to see where all of those people got it wrong.

@Christopher

"Based on rumors from people who got it all wrong? Stop listening to people online for rumors."

"Based on rumors from people who got it all wrong? Stop listening to people online for rumors."

"People who got it all wrong"? Maybe the idea of a streaming only Xbox console is not interesting to you (or me), but i can see why it would work for Microsoft from a business standpoint and, for casual gamers who only desires the console experience but don´t want to spend a lot of money on a powerful console, since they don´t care about maximum performance or visual fidelity.

@Observer: people got it wrong, though. I get you would want it, and it would exist with just the regular Xbox Slim that you can get sub-$200 easily since it doesn't require much to do that and is primarily on the Cloud side, but that has nothing to do with the rumors being completely wrong on what Microsoft was doing.

I wasn't so where you worked at Microsoft. Please can you source your claim that Microsoft "quietly canceled" their streaming only Xbox? Send us a link. That's why I'm glad that Phil came out and flat out stopped that rumor because of people like you.

Scarlett wasn't the console but was a sign that they are focusing on better and not cloud-tailored hardware.

A streaming console would be pointless with hardware already out there that could stream games and the prices continuing to go down every year.

I'm kind of fuzzy on the original reveal about all this. Was the streaming only version actually announced? I can't remember if they were rumors, or they said they had a couple in the works.

I think some sort of streaming only device may be applicable to the market. Nothing as fancy as a console, but just something like a Chromecast or Roku. Not every device is going to support whatever they're doing to stream content, and there are millions of TV's out there already. On top of that, it's questionable if newer TV's will bother including all the necessary hardware to run a service of this nature....namely a way to have a controller input with low lag, and a good network card as most TV's use horrible network adapters since lag isn't typically an issue for TV content.

@Christopher

I don't think it would be pointless. It'd be a lot cheaper to have a device dedicated to streaming than require the customer to buy a full console. Even if they only require an X1, the X1 is going to feel like old tech next gen, so it would have the wrong stigma attached to something new they're doing. I wouldn't think a streaming device would require much in terms of hardware.

They MUST.

1) Most Powerful Console
2) 15 First Party Studios
3) Best Place to play 3rd Parties
4) Game Pass Ultimate
5) Elite Series 2.0
6) Xcloud

What else can we ask!?! ;)

No you are right, i expect something at the X019 event, if not sooner at Gamescom..