Xbox boss Phil Spencer has teased that Microsoft is cooking up some "real great, unique ideas" for the future of Xbox. Looking to the future in an interview with Polygon, Spencer said he doesn't expect everyone will be pleased, but is enthusiastic about the Xbox platform's potential going forward.

"This is where you've got to come up with some real great, unique ideas," Spencer said about his long-term plan for Xbox. "I love where we're going. I think of the next year as we start to tell more and more of the story, it'll be great.

"There'll be certain people who'll throw eggs at certain parts of it and people embrace other parts of it. But I'm really happy around the foundation that we've been able to put in place over the last whatever it's been, 15, 16 months."

Spencer was promoted to Head of Xbox at the end of March 2014. In that role, he oversees all gaming at Microsoft, including the company's Xbox and PC efforts.

He didn't elaborate further on his specific plans, but did say there is a lot of positive energy inside of the Xbox team right now. That's in part because the company has finally moved forward from its various policy-reversals and is now gaining momentum.

"We feel, 'OK, the foundation is in place, now let's go surprise and delight people in some ways that aren't just fixing some backward looking things,'" he said. "That's also probably the high wire act."

Head to Polygon for the full, wide-ranging interview,