{"id":78038,"date":"2026-08-20T21:51:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T13:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=78038"},"modified":"2026-08-20T21:51:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T13:51:43","slug":"halo-co-creator-has-an-idea-to-revive-the-franchise-but-doubts-xbox-ceo-gives-a-sh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=78038","title":{"rendered":"Halo Co-Creator Has An Idea To Revive The Franchise, But Doubts Xbox CEO \u201cGives A Sh**\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-08-20-at-8.47.41-AM.png?w=300\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s no secret that the Halo franchise is no longer Microsoft&#8217;s crown jewel in terms of sales or prominence, and it hasn&#8217;t been for some time. Halo co-creator Marcus Lehto has now weighed in with his idea for a new game and new development philosophies to help revive the Halo brand. However, Lehto went on to say his ideas are probably &#8220;fanciful,&#8221; in part because he believes Xbox CEO Asha Sharma doesn&#8217;t have a real interest in reviving the franchise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Posting on social media, Lehto said his pitch for a new Halo would be a project that does not aim to please all fans. Instead, he believes his idea for a &#8220;darker&#8221; and &#8220;more grounded&#8221; Halo game would not be embraced by many.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;It would be a lot darker with a more grounded military feel,&#8221; he said. &#8220;PvP would be the brains, PvE the heart and soul. It would not be &#8216;everyone&#8217;s&#8217; Halo.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-x wp-block-embed-x\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If I were to make another Halo these days, I bet many of you would not like it. It would be a lot darker with a more grounded military feel. PvP would be the brains, PvE the heart and soul. It would not be &quot;everyone&#39;s&quot; Halo. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dChqLJzB80\">pic.twitter.com\/dChqLJzB80<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Marcus Lehto (@game_fabricator) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/game_fabricator\/status\/2090175195390820456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 19, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lehto went on to say that Halo&#8217;s lore has &#8220;become too convoluted&#8221; and is now alienating players who might otherwise be interested in Halo. &#8220;My goal would be to carefully thread that lore through a new baseline that allows players [the] opportunity to experience Halo fresh and unencumbered,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I would probably bench much of the current lore &#8211; respect it, but build a new future narrative for both the old and new audiences which makes much more sense,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lehto went on to say that Halo could have a bright future if management executes, but he thinks this might all be wishful thinking given the new leadership at Xbox these days. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I&#8217;m aware that it&#8217;s fanciful and that I doubt Asha really gives a sh**,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lehto also suggested a new Halo game &#8220;must be built by a local team together, not outsourced around the globe to a group that has ZERO investment in making something great.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Outsourcing development is a common strategy for game production today. Halo: Campaign Evolved, for example, was developed by numerous studios outside of Halo Studios. The game didn&#8217;t get off to the best start, and some people didn&#8217;t enjoy some of the creative decisions, while others were confounded by Microsoft&#8217;s decision to release a Halo game with no PvP multiplayer. For his part, Lehto said, &#8220;Outsourcing killed the game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In another post, Lehto said he could foresee a future where multiple teams work on parts of a game that they &#8220;own.&#8221; However, Lehto said &#8220;the core game and experience has to come from a centralized cohesive team &#8211; no exceptions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This isn&#8217;t the first time that Lehto has offered a spicy Halo take. Before this, Lehto called out Campaign Evolved for &#8220;pandering to a new era of players with 0% attention span.&#8221; Overall, however, Lehto really loved the game&#8217;s upgrades.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In other Halo news, it was recently reported that Microsoft could enlist Call of Duty developer Sledgehammer to make a new Halo game. <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/halo-co-creator-has-an-idea-to-revive-the-franchise-but-doubts-xbox-ceo-gives-a-sh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s no secret that the Halo franchise is no longer Microsoft&#8217;s crown jewel in terms of sales or prominence, and it hasn&#8217;t been for some&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[5668,3330,9953,2800,2796,8357,5923,162],"class_list":["post-78038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-gadgets-reviews","tag-ceo","tag-cocreator","tag-doubts","tag-franchise","tag-halo","tag-idea","tag-revive","tag-xbox","wpcat-32-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/78040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}