Microsoft demoed an unshipped Xbox prototype with an orientation-flipping power button

tomwarren · x · 2026-11-13

At a tour of Microsoft's Building 87, designer Carl Ledbetter demoed a power button prototype for the Xbox that could switch between horizontal and vertical orientations — a concept that never shipped. The Verge's Tom Warren shared it and urged Xbox to "make it happen."

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