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GymratAmarillo on 16 April 2025
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GymratAmarillo said:


I think the worst part of this situation is the release date, I don't give a damn about Borderlands but PlayStation has the rights of Borderlands marketing and that means a high probability that Marathon won't get marketing under the PS brand, people can say what they want but PS marketing is one of their strongest points and a reason why a lot of games are actually successful. That is smart and stupid at the same time, it's smart because if both games hit big then Sony has one of their biggest months yet but it's stupid because you are literally competing with yourself, the advantages that Marathon has over Borderlans is the fact that it is a competitive shooter and also the price, two main points when it comes to shooters. We will never know who was the one with the idea, I can see both parties making the decision, Bungie's CEO is what's left of a terrible administration pre acquisition and Sony probably putting a dead line to Bungie to release the game, that deadline being 2025 before GTA6 release. We know Borderlands will have a "healthy" separation from GTA6 release so we know the release window is end of October-November. This is also important because it also means if Sony wants to release something else this year it has to be at end of August max.

I'm pretty sure there's sepculation that Ghost of Yotei is early September too. 

Honestly, this just sounds like a Bungie issue: they're allowed to do their own thing but it does seem like Marathon is unaffected by the reeling in Sony did of the team a few months ago. I'd wager that Marathon is really the final thing the team is doing before being fully absorded by SIE, unless Marathon is a massive breakaway success that allows them to prevent that. 

That said, I think Marathon looks cool. But I'm also not the target audience for for paying for this sort of content. I haven't even bought Astrobot or FF16 yet, because I need them both to be on deeper discounts, which tells you how and where I'd rather put money if i can get a game. 

I don't have any problem with PS fans not being interested in Marathon. My problem is with the haters who want everything free or everything has to be sexualized or just because it's a service they call it Concord 2 when it's actually Concord 3 because the same people called Intergalactic "another Concord" lol.

It's hard for me to expect Sony to totally absorb Bungie because that would mean Marathon didn't do that well, hopefully there is a middle ground where Marathon is actually successful but it doesn't reach an unrealistic goal set by the Bungie's CEO so they don't need to fire anyone and Sony can take more control. In theory after the last round of layoffs Sony took the majority of the seats in Bungie's board of directors.

Early September sounds like a good guess for Yotei. Personally I would love if it releases in August, first half, I was pretty sure DS2 was a July game but it actually releases in June so they have July and August free to release stuff before Borderlands, Marathon and the GTA Vortex. 

Last edited by GymratAmarillo - on 16 April 2025