{"id":639786,"date":"2026-06-15T12:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T12:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/639786\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T12:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T12:11:08","slug":"following-gears-of-war-e-days-declaration-of-xbox-exclusivity-halo-campaign-evolved-is-already-climbing-playstation-pre-order-charts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/639786\/","title":{"rendered":"Following Gears of War: E-Day’s declaration of Xbox exclusivity, Halo: Campaign Evolved is already climbing PlayStation pre-order charts"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of 2025’s most shocking reveals was Halo: Campaign Evolved<\/a> coming to PS5. Xbox’s iconic “mascot” is limited to Microsoft consoles and PC no more. It almost signalled a larger strategic shift, yet Gears of War: E-Day is skipping Sony’s console<\/a> despite last year’s second Gears of War remaster<\/a> making that jump. Now, Halo’s pre-orders on PS5 are glowing, raising more questions.<\/p>\n

As pointed out by Push Square<\/a>, Halo Campaign Evolved’s pre-orders on the PlayStation Store are looking mighty so far. While specific numbers aren’t available, Master Chief has been killing it on the UK store<\/a>, where its standard edition is currently the best-selling pre-order (and the premium package is in the top five, too). In the US<\/a>, Halo isn’t as high up yet, but its premium edition holds the seventh spot at the time of writing.<\/p>\n

Halo: Campaign Evolved – Official Cinematic Story TrailerWatch on YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n

The Unreal Engine 5-powered remake is also finding lots of success in France<\/a>, where the more expensive edition is topping the digital charts. In Germany<\/a>, the story is similar, though it’s Halo’s standard edition taking the crown over there. Even if some territories are gravitating towards the return of Master Chief more than others, there’s a clear trend brewing, and one has to wonder if a massive launch on PS5 could make Xbox rethink its (still confusing) approach to huge console exclusives<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In fact, Halo: Campaign Evolved’s marketing campaign seems to favouring PS5 over Xbox<\/a> despite Halo being the Xbox IP most associated with the brand. Ports like Forza Horizon 5<\/a> and Sea of Thieves<\/a> have also proven there is interest in Xbox IP making their way onto Sony’s platform, so it’ll be really interesting to see where things go next from here.<\/p>\n

For now, Eurogamer’s Dom Peppiatt<\/a> walked into Halo: Campaign Evolved’s hands-on demo expecting to hate it, but is now a believer: “It has reinvigorated the first game with all the best bits of the following six.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of 2025’s most shocking reveals was Halo: Campaign Evolved coming to PS5. Xbox’s iconic “mascot” is limited…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-639786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}