I don't think Marathon will bomb, I think it will have a fairly decent-big launch, largely due to Bungie's name alone which is still massive, especially among a casual audience who won't even be aware of half of this drama, but the real complications come post-launch and if they manage to keep the players stuck around, I don't think given what I've heard about Marathon, they will be able to do so, and I think Arc Raiders could really hurt Marathon and if Marathon is delayed near GTA 6 then that will be pretty awful for them. Think they should have just done Destiny 3 and kept Marathon closer to the original.
Destiny 2 is still pretty popular today, even in 2024 it was in Steam's Top 12 by Gross Revenue for the whole of 2024. But Bungie as a whole is screwing up, they had multiple projects in development, a Destiny spinoff called Payback was cancelled, Matter was cancelled, then that team went on to work on a similar project, which was also cancelled, Lol. Gummy Bears was moved out of Bungie and into SIE. Management took on so many projects and it backfired, basically anyone not on Destiny 2 or Marathon have been fired and management still receives millions for doing a shit job. All these projects in development and only one is managing to crawl out (Marathon) which has also had stupid interference from management. Incubating all these projects also resulted in them neglecting Destiny 2, which was actually their cash cow.
But anyone who has followed Bungie throughout the Halo and Destiny days knows that Bungie has always been a shitshow management wise, Lol. Even Microsoft when they were acquiring everyone only a few years ago reportedly passed on acquiring Bungie again because they "identified a high burn-rate risk" for Bungie, which basically means Bungie is shit with money. Bungie was always a mess though, people just gave them a pass because Halo was brilliant but basically every Halo had an awful development as well, Lmao.
Siphoning money from Destiny to put towards now multiple cancelled projects, Destiny has to fund all Bungie projects and only 1 has managed to actually see some chance of release. Bungie's senior management is trash, they make consistently bad choices and still hand themselves millions in bonuses even when they miss targets. First thing Sony should have done was fire the entire upper management. I am begging Sony to fire Bungie's upper management and take control even if it means turning Bungie exclusive and I never play another Bungie game again because I don't want to see my childhood favourite studio slowly crawl to shutdown because of awful management.
Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 25 May 2025
