Through the Halo Instagram account, they made a small tribute to the character of the competition, Super Mario, publishing an illustration of him disguised as Master Chief, and facing Bowser.
“ The Adventures of Mario Chief and Peachtana huh? ”, They noted in the description of the image, which corresponds to a fan-art made by Pikathorchu .
The shared image reinforces some rumors that suggest that the iconic character would be on his way to Super Smash Bros., something that is not entirely unreasonable considering that he previously received Microsoft characters such as Steve from Minecraft and Banjo Kazooie.
One of the hypotheses that reinforces this is that on Phil Spencer's shelves in one of the last presentations there was a Nintendo Switch, which can be taken as a clue, especially if one takes into account that he recently showed a Kojima Productions' mascot figure and reports emerged that they are in talks for Kojima's next game.
At the moment without an official confirmation, this only remains as a small tribute and we have to wait to see if there is something else between the two characters.