Will Marathon Survive?

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Norion said:

DekutheEvilClown said:

In regards to the Marathon budget it should be noted that only 300 people at peak development time worked on Marathon. Before the layoffs, when Bungie had 1200 people, it was even less than 300. Project Payback got cancelled in June 2024 and the whole team got moved onto Marathon at that point. 

The Marathon budget is probably not a big as people have been calculating as there seems to be a fundamental misunderstanding about the game being a large core development for Bungie when in reality it appears to have been more of a side project that got kicked into primary place when other projects got cancelled and they chose to run with Marathon. Even then the majority of the studio are working on something else. 

That is a fair point though close to two years of the whole team will still be pricey. What I'm wondering though is how long till their next huge release comes out since with Destiny 2 falling off massively and Marathon not exactly making waves the future of the company is looking increasingly bleak. If Destiny 3 or whatever else was coming out next year it'd be whatever but if they won't release anything else for the rest of this decade then oh dear.

Project Gummy Bears, which got moved in-house to Sony along with a group of Bungie employees, looks like it will come out next year. It looks to target a much broader and more casual audience. I suspect that is the one Sony liked the look of the most. Otherwise I think Bungie are mostly focused on Destiny 3 now and it’s a long way away.