Apparently there was a leaker over the summer who said that Taiko would release on Xbox and now here it is on Gamepass in January. The same leaker also said that Persona 3-5 ports were planned for Xbox. I know that alot of Xbox fans were disheartened about the prospects of Persona making it to Xbox after the recent Xbox snub from Persona 4 Arena Ultimax, but apparently this leaker has suggested that Arc System Works is actually to blame for P4A skipping Xbox, not Atlus.

I'm thinking remove Sledgehammer from CoD entirely, it was even rumored that they don't want to work on it anymore and want to do a new IP which is why the co-founders both left, one of which is now with Take-Two I believe starting a new studio there. That would put a new CoD out every other year, with Infinity Ward and Treyarch each getting 4 years of development instead of the 3 years they currently get. 

Last years CoD proved it is broken though, all of that crunch, every studio under Activision working on it and it released to awful reviews and noticeable decrease in sales.

How much of that is down to the pandemic is an unknown though but something has to change, every Activision studio shouldn't be a CoD support studio.

But Vangaurd was still the best selling game last year. They need to address crunch by keeping it to 3 devs 3 year cycle but the yearly releases need to stay.

Ever occur to you that some of those people might wanna make some other games? There's no good reason to release a yearly CoD, when CoD fans can not only play the previous entry for a couple of years, but also have Warzone to fall back on. Literally the only reason it comes out every year is so Activision can appease their shareholders.

Ever occur to you that some of those people might wanna make some other games? There's no good reason to release a yearly CoD, when CoD fans can not only play the previous entry for a couple of years, but also have Warzone to fall back on. Literally the only reason it comes out every year is so Activision can appease their shareholders.

Bingo. The last thing Xbox wants is their Halo Infinite campaign expansions, Doom/Wolfenstein/Quake, and Gears competing against CoD for the Holiday season shooter crowd. That alone is a good enough reason to take Sledgehammer off of the CoD rotation to work on new IP's (I'm pretty sure one of their satellite studios is already working on something new). That would give Treyarch and Infinity Ward 4 years each to work on their CoD games, a gap year between CoD's for big Halo Infinite expansions, Doom, Wolfenstein, Quake, and Gears games to release in, and that extra year for each CoD game would allow Xbox to remove some of the CoD support studios like Toys For Bob and Beenox so that they can work on all 4 of Xbox's platformer IP's; Crash, Spyro, Banjo, and Conker; as well as possibly more Tony Hawk games.

That gap year between CoD games will also allow Xbox to expand the length of the DLC support for each CoD, meaning that Xbox can sell season passes in that 2nd CoD year to keep revenue coming in.