Everything we expect from Xbox in 2026, including Halo on PlayStation and the return of Fable

Xbox is so hard to predict that looking ahead to another year feels like an impossible task. I’m not sure anyone expected Microsoft to make major layoffs and shut down entire studios, not least its ‘AAAA’ Perfect Dark one, but here we are at the end of 2025, wondering what’s going on.

Microsoft has already started to talk about hardware, but with prices of consoles and the Xbox Game Pass subscription service climbing, can it really convince players it’s still a player, and that they should invest in its ecosystem?

Despite it feeling near-impossible, here’s our look ahead to 2026 and what’s to come for Xbox.