No shit, a new release from a big studio with a big budget garners the most interest in how it performs. We are all massively surprised.

I admittedly will need to look into what all these numbers mean, but this doesn't look good from a brief glance.

It means Sony adjusted the value of the asset "Bungie" on their balance sheet. They reduced the value of the asset by $765m. I'm not sure if there is a tax benefit of doing this or what. Most people believed they overplayed significantly even before Destiny revenue started declining.

This honestly says more about how NOT well Destiny 2 is performing anymore since this is the quarter that ended in March, which is when Marathon released.

What will be more telling is next quarterly results.

While Bungie execs will still get their payday, what a slap in the face to their egos when your parent company publicly says your company is not worth what was paid.

I will say that the only ones that can beat Bungie, are Bungie themselves. You can never truly count them out as they somehow always make a comeback lol.

At least it's clear they want to try to work it out and not shut off the game for now, as there are plans to bring new content and try to increase the userbase.

Seems like Marathon will have some time to try do better.

Bungie was never worth what Sony paid, Sony paid that much to have Bungie "teach" other studios to do liveservices games on top of their own games.

Bungie was the one that said TLoU multiplayer was not good and got Sony finally drop it before release.

As those plans have long failed, yeah, Bungie is now way less worthy for Sony.

Don't be dense. It's obviously not the same situation. In fact Hogwarts legacy benefit greatly from culture wars thanks to the people that were trying to ban harry potter books in the early 2000s now are now championing the ip because their political enemies dislike JK Rowling. There's very much spite boosting on social media that Stellar Blade also got. Stellar blade wasn't even really ever a target, the outrage was all manufactured by the game's fans.

This is all different from a multiplayer game where you constantly have to hear DEAD GAME DEADME DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY. People making it their life's mission to tell people not to play the game adnt that they won't be able to play it anyway. I have far more anectdotal evidence to prove that works than the opposite. I never had to look far to see for splitgate 2 for example that there were people looking to trying but then they said that they heard the game was dead from steamcharts posters so they shouldn't.

it's hard to really make out a different trend  from pc. and the top 200 games right below the top 10 on consoles all have really similar numbers so it's easy to jump or drop massively from only a small change in umbers. fighting games reach the top 30 on consoles every week they have a sale but the steam ccu numbers for them don't budge much at the same time.

I always thought it was funny that was the major reason why Sony bought Bungie. Destiny is one of those franchises that since day one has had a roller coaster of an experience in quality that continues to this day.

For every good release Destiny had, it was always followed by a disappointing release, and that cycle still hasn’t stopped.

I honestly think Pete Parsons showed off all the projects that Bungie were supposedly working on (with no intention of actually making them) and they were on high by the EXCELLENT Witch Queen expansion, and Sony bought it.

Only to find out the hard way none of the projects were properly taking place and then Bungie released the arguably worst expansion in Destiny’s history in Lightfall that sunk the games reputation so hard that it hurt the following excellent expansion in Final Shape.