Although every website you've ever visited in 2025 seems eager to sum up your year, even for things you don't need at all (the cards I filled out in Asana this year? Uh, no thanks), there's one wrapped message you probably won't get this year: Xbox.
This is according to WindowsCentral's Jez Corden recently suggested that the Xbox review was not only late this year, but might not be coming out at all.
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“Some of you have asked me if Xbox will be doing its own Year in Review style survey of your gaming habits for 2025,” Corden wrote. “My sources suggest that Xbox will not be doing Wrapped this year. And there’s potentially a good reason for that.”
What are these good reasons? Corden says next year will see a “coincidence of major anniversaries not just for Xbox, but for some of its subsidiaries.”
“Xbox celebrates its 25th anniversary along with Halo itself. Blizzard is also celebrating its 35th anniversary, and Bethesda is also celebrating its 40th anniversary,” he said. “The Xbox brand was launched on November 15, 2001. Blizzard in February 1991, and Bethesda in June 1986.
“So a significant portion of the 'marketing budget' that would normally be allocated to something like Xbox Wrapped is spent on efforts to celebrate these important milestones for Xbox, its brands and some of its games.”
By the way, Sony 2025 Wrap-Up and Steam Replay 2025 are already available. If you haven't seen yours yet, head to official website for PlayStation or go to Steam to see what you've been up to there this year.
It's been a tough year for Xbox. with thousands of layoffs, canceled gamesincluding The Initiative's Perfect Dark, Rare's Everwild and the unannounced MMO ZeniMax, equipment sales markAnd Even its shooter, the Call of Duty series, is struggling.
However, Microsoft President of Game Content and Studios Matt Booty reports that Xbox will host one of its Dev Directs in January, stating that “We have more stuff coming up than we can fit into one show.”. This means that we can probably expect updates about the upcoming Fable game and Forza Horizon series and perhaps a couple of updates from other games included in Xbox Game Studios umbrella.
