There will be another Xbox after this One, Phil Spencer says

Microsoft's using the Xbox brand as its catch-all for everything gaming, dedicated consoles seem to be losing ground to mobile devices, and what the heck do you even name the system after Xbox One? Xbox Two? Don't be ridiculous. Add all that up and you may get concerned about Microsoft's future in dedicated gaming hardware, but Xbox boss Phil Spencer is certain that the company has at least, erm, one more Xbox left in it.

"I fully expect that you’ll see another console from us," Spencer told The Verge. "Our best customers are Xbox console customers, and I want to keep those people engaged both on the Xbox One and anything we might do in the future. I’m 100 percent committed to that."

Microsoft's contributions to games began long before it established the Xbox brand in 2001, publishing influential PC series like Age of Empires and Microsoft Flight Simulator (not to mention Minesweeper and Solitaire). Since then, it has folded more and more of its entertainment projects into the Xbox brand, though not all of them - like Xbox Music, now Groove, and Xbox Entertainment Studios, now closed - stuck.

I got a BA in journalism from Central Michigan University - though the best education I received there was from CM Life, its student-run newspaper. Long before that, I started pursuing my degree in video games by bugging my older brother to let me play Zelda on the Super Nintendo. I've previously been a news intern for GameSpot, a news writer for CVG, and was formerly a staff writer at GamesRadar.