10 Popular Video Games That Will Die In The Next 5 Years

7. Halo

Current Status: After one of the worst Halo stories of the new trilogy (one where Master Chief literally accomplished nothing), even the base foundations of Halo have been chopped and changed to move with a FPS shooter market that ultimately imploded anyway.

Consider Titanfall - the development of which forced Activision to reframe Call of Duty in such a way - to combat competition that never materialised, as the first game failed to catch on. The whole time 343 Industries were analysing COD's gameplay staples, releasing Halo 5 as a hodgepodge of staples taken from both it and Halo's own history.

Add The Master Chief Collection too - a repackaging of some of the best FPS in gaming history... that remains unreliable and mostly unplayable to this day.

Now, in a market where Overwatch and Fortnite dominate, and even Call of Duty's return to World War II didn't make waves, Halo is left without a compelling story, without an identity, without a developer anybody trusts to deliver, and without a fanbase.

The Future: We'll get a Halo 6, sure - the "new trilogy" of games was always supposed to span Halo's 4 through 6 - but will the world care? Halo 5 sold the worst of the entire bunch, dogged by aforementioned issues of gameplay feel and a marketing campaign that flat-out lied about what the story would be about.

Although it was once THE first-person shooter of gaming; of the world, Halo just doesn't have the pull it once did. Even Microsoft seem to be pivoting into monthly subscription services and less exclusives as they pilfer their back catalogue, leaving Halo in a place of being utterly unnecessary.