According to a reputable Xbox insider, there is no new Xbox console planned for 2026. Xbox is one of the big three gaming giants out there next to PlayStation and Nintendo. It has carved out a healthy piece of the industry for itself and has continued to push against norms for a while.
For a decade or two, many saw Xbox and PlayStation has near identical machines where the only difference was the exclusive games they offered. Now, the two are doing pretty different things despite having somewhat comparable hardware and it is creating a fairly unpredictable industry after years of very structured generations. For a while, you’d get a console, support it for a few years, release a mid-gen refresh with a new console that was typically smaller and offered quality of life improvements, and then release a new generation of consoles a few years after that.
Things have gone a bit differently this generation, though. People are still playing on consoles like PS4, PlayStation did release a PS5 Pro, but Xbox hasn’t even teased any kind of mid-gen refresh. Instead, Xbox seems to be focused on expanding itself in other places such as the cloud gaming arena where Xbox games are available without a console on things like tablets, TVs, and more.
However, there was a rumor floating around that Xbox is gearing up to have a new next-gen console in 2026 called Xbox Prime . The original leak came way of TheGhostofHope on Twitter, a notable Call of Duty leaker who has accurately leaked things .
