With Halo 5: Guardians on the horizon, developer 343 Industries acknowledged its already in the planning stages for Halo 6.
“We do kind of know what’s going to happen in the next game pretty well at this point,” Franchise Development Director Frank O’Connor said to GamesRadar.
“We’re doing serious real planning and even some writing on the next game already, and that’s a luxury – we’ve never been in that position before. So we both know at a very high level what’s going to happen in, say, ten years from now. But at that very granular level knowing what’s going to happen in the next game and that’s just been a great feeling for me”.
Despite the planning, 343 also asserted it has no plans to make Halo an annual franchise, citing concerns of burnout with standardised releases.
“I don’t want to overplay or overuse the franchise,” Xbox head Phil Spencer said to Gamespot. “It’s a franchise and an IP I expect to be around 20 years from now, much the same way Star Wars and Spider-Man and other things are. I think it has the weight that it can support that, but I think that the franchise then needs to be managed in a way that doesn’t burn it out.”
Halo 5: Guardians will be available from 27 October on Xbox One.
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