Can you imagine a smartwatch designed for Xbox? Well, at Microsoft they were very close to making it happen.

The fashion for _smartwatch_ may have been more fleeting than many expected. Firms such as Motorola, which announced that we would not see a new Moto 360, or the now-defunct Pebble, are just an example of a product that has not yet caught on among users Samsung is still resisting with its Gear range, as is Apple, which has just released the Apple Watch series 3. But not much else.

We have gone from a time of overabundance to another in which there is a shortage of novelties in this niche market.They may not have made their mark among the public due to their dependence on the telephone or perhaps because of the few functions they offer... but not long ago brands saw a new vein to exploit in them. And in the case of Microsoft they even thought of an Xbox add-on in the form of a _smartwatch_.

This is how we found out that the people of Redmond were involved in a project that back in 2013, in the middle of the golden age of _wearables_, has the objective of launching an accessory for the Xbox in the form of a _smartwatch_ A device that they planned to launch in 2015 and that finally never left the drawer of ideas (good or bad).

It was Suomimobiili.fi's colleagues who leaked the images of what would have been this _smartwatch_. A device stamped on the back of Xbox resembling a cross between an Apple Watch and a Sony SmartWatch in one of its early versions.

A _smartwatch_ that had a screen in quadrangular format with a size of 1.5 inches and that already included solutions that we would see later in other similar products case of a magnetic connector for charging or a heart rate sensor on the back.

This _smartwatch_ would arrive thought to become an extension of our Microsoft device and thus allow synchronization with Surface devices and who knows what features and apps for Xbox.

This _smartwatch_ finally did not reach the market and at Microsoft they opted for something more conservative such as the Microsoft Band, which, there is everything Needless to say, it's not that he was very successful either. _Do you think a product like this would have been interesting or do you think that Microsoft did well to discard it?_

Source | Suomimobiili.fi