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PotentHerbs said:

It looks like Marathon is doing well on the PlayStation Store after the updated rankings.

Its charted top ten in NA, Canada, UK, Australia, and has made it to the top five for the Xbox Store. I think its clear the majority of Marathon's audience is the western market. Bungie games historically have a bigger console audience compared to other multiplayer games.

According to Paul Tassi, Bungie sources told him that so far, Steam is Marathon's biggest platform. While Bungie has historically been huge on console, Extraction Shooters have been a PC-centric genre since their inception. Even Arc Raiders is wildly bigger on PC than console. And if that's the case of PC being the bigger platform for Marathon, to make things slightly bleak, he also says that Sony is envisioning Marathon as a blockbuster.

Which tbf, why wouldn't Sony expect that? Buy Bungie for nearly $4 billion, well aware that Bungie's next project is Marathon, and Destiny 2 was still making bank at that time. It's entirely fair that Sony expected Marathon to be a blockbuster. Currently, Marathon is looking like a good success, but not a blockbuster. That being said, I really hope Sony lets Marathon continue, even if it's a smaller community, as long as there is a continual dedicated playerbase playing the game, it deserves to be supported.