{"id":371480,"date":"2026-07-03T01:24:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T08:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/?p=371480"},"modified":"2026-07-03T01:24:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T08:24:03","slug":"xbox-reportedly-reassesses-halo-ahead-of-halos-first-ps5-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/xbox-reportedly-reassesses-halo-ahead-of-halos-first-ps5-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Xbox reportedly reassesses Halo ahead of Halo\u2019s first PS5 release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Xbox appears to be taking a hard look at how <em><a href=\"https:\/\/halo.en.softonic.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Halo<\/a><\/em> is being handled just as <em><a href=\"https:\/\/halo-campaign-evolved.en.softonic.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Halo: Campaign Evolved<\/a><\/em> heads to PS5 on <strong>July 28, 2026<\/strong>. Windows Central\u2019s Jez Corden says the series is under serious internal review at a pretty pivotal moment for the brand. And the timing doesn\u2019t feel accidental. <em>Halo: Campaign Evolved<\/em> will be the first official <em>Halo<\/em> game to release on a Sony console, while Xbox is reportedly rethinking a franchise that\u2019s widely said to have sold more than 81 million copies and brought in over $6 billion worldwide.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The recent struggles are probably part of that conversation too. <em><a href=\"https:\/\/halo-infinite.en.softonic.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Halo Infinite<\/a><\/em> launched in 2021 with a lot of momentum, climbing past 270,000 concurrent players on <a href=\"https:\/\/steam.en.softonic.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Steam<\/a> before that interest faded, and <strong>343 Industries<\/strong> has since rebranded as Halo Studios. The studio has also said future projects are moving off Slipspace Engine and onto Unreal Engine 5. If you keep a close eye on Xbox, this is one to watch. It fits with Microsoft\u2019s broader reset around layoffs, exclusives, multiplatform releases, and reports that the company\u2019s gaming business is operating at roughly a 3% profit margin.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Halo: Campaign Evolved<\/em> launches on PS5 on <strong>July 28, 2026<\/strong>, and pre-orders are reportedly looking strong on the PlayStation Store.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xbox appears to be taking a hard look at how Halo is being handled just as Halo: Campaign Evolved heads to PS5 on July 28, 2026. Windows Central\u2019s Jez Corden says the series is under serious internal review at a pretty pivotal moment for the brand. And the timing doesn\u2019t feel accidental. Halo: Campaign Evolved &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/xbox-reportedly-reassesses-halo-ahead-of-halos-first-ps5-release\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Xbox reportedly reassesses Halo ahead of Halo\u2019s first PS5 release&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1009,"featured_media":371479,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-371480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1009"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":371481,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371480\/revisions\/371481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371480"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=371480"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=371480"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=371480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}