What are the rumored and leaked the Xbox Prime coming out in the 2026 together with brand new call duty game?
I remember Jez saying that the prime label wasn’t a thing, but he didn’t say anything about a new console releasing 2026.
CoD is probably still going to be an annual thing, so we could expect one every year. Even if I think taking a year off between releases is better for the franchise.
whether the rumor is remotely true or not, i personally hope the Nextbox really does launch in holiday 2026. They really need something exciting hardware wise and soon as their Series consoles are tanking, and they need a holiday to themselves, if they do 2027 they risk the PS6 launching early. Also, it doesnt make sense that they would be holding back the Sebile controller for 2027 or later, when it was already a thing in the FTC leaks in 2023. I feel like they would have released a Sebile 1.0 by now and a Sebile 2.0 if they released it in 2027 or later.
On another tangent, they really do need a killer lineup of games to launch with their console, i mean what was the big games during the Series launch, Gears Tactics and Gears 5 DLC a month later? lol. It kinda makes me sad they are blowing their load with rumors of stuff like Fable and Gears E-day releasing sometime in the next year/year and a half. Imagine if they held off on those games and launched them alongside the Nextbox launch, a launch lineup of Halo 1 campaign remake/Gears E-Day/Fable/Forza Horizon 6 and Forza Motorsport next gen edition with full ray tracing / etc to go along with CoD on gamepass and the “best place to play GTA6”. That would definitely get people to buy the new shiny box thing during the holiday period (assuming those MS titles are not fully multiplatform by then are at the very least timed exclusives)
I just hope they don’t completely abandon physical. Xbox is already not very collector friendly as it is these days.
2026 CoD being developed for next gen xbox? Adds some smoke to a 2026 NEXTbox
I don’t know if it’s a way to have the best version of COD for Xbox although I don’t really know at this point how much of an impact this would actually have. Would Fable also be delayed to launch alongside the new Xbox?
If they want to make a splash they need more than COD that’s for sure. Maybe Playground can surprise us with FH6 as well?
At this point I would expect the “next gen xbox dev kit” is merely a PC with specs close enough to match their target – which is how early Xbox One dev kits were before they got actual hardware.
It is not coming in 2026😕
I think part of the reason we are seeing Xbox move to digital is there is less reason for retailers to even carry hardware these days. There is no profit for the store selling consoles, games are bought 50-80% digitally, no crazy high margin accessories like memory cards, etc…
Now maybe if the console is more expensive with a store mark up, the stores will carry it without needing games there also. However, you can’t do that with a “sell consoles at a loss + exclusive games” model. Maybe that is why Xbox games will be everywhere so they can sell a premium console. There very well may be a high end console niche that can fill in where PCs used to be.