Well, no longer do we have to rely on rumors, as the CEO of Microsoft Gaming, Phil Spencer, has revealed in a Bloomberg interview that Xbox handheld prototypes are currently being worked on. The caveat is that this hardware is still a few years out.

Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer both acknowledged and poured cold water on persistent rumors about an imminent Xbox handheld announcement during a recent interview with Bloomberg.

The head of Xbox, Phil Spencer, has occasionally let slip that a portable Xbox console is a possibility, but now it is a reality, as he stressed in an interview with Bloomberg: “The expectation is that we would do something,” said Spencer, who at the same time added that any device is a few years away.