Rumors have been flying all year that Xbox is working on a PC gaming handheld. On Wednesday, Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer confirmed that plans are underway, though it sounds like an actual portable device is still a few years out.

Xbox boss Phil Spencer has confirmed that Microsoft is working on handheld gaming prototypes, but claimed that any potential device is still years away.

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.