Microsoft confirms new Xbox

Microsoft has confirmed a new Xbox is currently in development.

Windows general manager, Brian Hall, told The Verge that updating the Hotmail and Outlook services last week is all part of Microsoft’s plan to release a new range of products.

Hall said: “We’ve had Hotmail and operated Hotmail for about 16 years. We obviously have Exchange and Outlook that people use at work.

“We just decided it was time to do something new and to bring the best from each of those and put them together and release it right in time for the new wave of products that we could have coming out with Windows 8, with the new version of Office, with the new Windows phone, and the new Xbox.”

Microsoft has yet to announce a new Xbox but an official statement looks to be drawing closer.

The new Xbox and the next-generation PlayStation are expected to be released sometime next year.