A lot of people, us included, kinda hoped for a surprise reveal of Halo 6 at E3 this year. We were told in advance that it wasn't going to happen, but that didn't mean that we didn't have our fingers crossed that the pre-show denials were merely misdirection.
It wasn't to be though, and Gears of War and Halo were very much not in attendance during this year's E3. In the wake of the event, speaking to Games Industry, Xbox chief Phil Spencer explained that they could have shown something relating to their biggest IPs, but the game's respective studios weren't ready and he decided their E3 showing was healthy enough that it wasn't warranted.
"Both those teams are actively working," he said. "In the last month, I've been at both studios looking at milestone reviews and playing stuff. I could have pushed them to put together some kind of video so we could have shown something on stage, which would have been a PR thing and not a game thing, but I just said, 'No. I love the show we have, we're going to show the work of 343 and The Coalition when they're ready. Give those teams time to land the creative vision for those games.' I didn't want to force it because I didn't think we needed to."
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