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.