Towards the end of this year's E3 2018 press conference, Head of Xbox Phil Spencer came on stage one last time to hint at Microsoft's plans for both the near and far-future.

Among them, Spencer confirmed that the hardware team is hard at work on the next Xbox console, with the team having a "commitment to deliver the benchmark of console gaming." Prior to dropping this announcement, Spencer had just been discussing the Xbox team's work on AI and cloud streaming, so it's not too far a leap to conclude that those may also be key factors of the new Xbox when it launches in the upcoming years.

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