[STEAM] Halo’s Move to Unreal Engine 5 Would Make a PS5 Version Easier to Achieve, Tech Experts Say

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would make it easier for developer Halo Studios, née 343 Industries, to take Xbox’s flagship first-person shooter multi-platform, including a launch on PlayStation 5, tech experts have said.

Speaking to

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, Digital Foundry chief Richard Leadbetter said moving to Unreal 5 makes for “easier” multi-platform development than porting across the existing Slipspace engine.

"It stands to reason that an engine designed for deployment across multiple platforms would be easier to work with than existing technology built for Xbox and PC,” Leadbetter said.

While

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’s multi-platform video game push has seen the likes of Rare’s

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and Obsidian’s

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make the jump to PS5, the company has yet to announce any Halo game for a non-Xbox console.

Despite a backlash from some ********* Xbox fans,

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’s multi-platform push appears to have been a success.

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, and Xbox boss Phil Spencer has said the company’s franchises are stronger for heading to PlayStation and Nintendo Switch.

Indeed more PS5 launches are coming, including

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, albeit a few months after MachineGames’ adventure hits PC and Xbox, and id Software’s

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. Could Halo be next?

In August,

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— with the pressure now on to deliver following

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’s eye-watering $69 billion acquisition of Call of Duty maker Activision Blizzard last year.

“... we run a business,” Spencer said. “It’s definitely true inside of

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the bar is high for us in terms of the delivery we have to give back to the company. Because we get a level of support from the company that’s just amazing and what we’re able to go do.

“So I look at this, how can we make our games as strong as possible? Our platform continues to grow, on console, on PC, and on cloud. It’s just going to be a strategy that works for us.”

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has so-far used older games released over a year ago for its multi-platform push as opposed to brand new games, but that will soon change with the release of Indiana Jones. The most dramatic move would be to bring Halo to PlayStation, given the shooter's symbiotic relationship with Xbox. But would

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actually go through with it? As former Xbox boss Peter Moore recently told IGN,

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Halo's shift to Unreal comes amid a tumultuous time for Xbox that has seen

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and

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. All the while, sales of Xbox Series X and S have fallen dramatically, Xbox Game Pass growth has stalled, and

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faces a backlash from ********* Xbox players about its potentially wavering commitment to exclusives and the console business.

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