The team is reportedly not very confident that they will be able to meet the launch window set by Sony… and that’s going to be a bit of a problem for Bungie.

The other day we mentioned Bloomberg editor Jason Schreier’s guest appearance on the Skill Up Friends Per Second podcast. He talked about the state of Marathon, the new (old) project from Sony’s studio (since they’re rebooting the franchise). Schreier has a scathing opinion on the game’s fortunes within the studio, and brought up another live service title for comparison:

“There’s a reason why it was planned for this year and has slipped a full year, and people I’ve talked to are a little pessimistic that it will even meet its current planned date. But we’ll see. I don’t know exactly when that is, sometime in 2025, I’m not sure. Yeah, the mood I’ve heard is not great around it, at least as of a few months ago.

Suicide Squad started development in 2017 when live service was the hot new thing, and because of the sunk cost fallacy and endless delays, and because there wasn’t really any interest or willingness to cancel it because they had so much money tied up in it, and there was just a belief that “we want to get this out, it’s going to be cool,” it came out and just totally flopped. I’m worried that Marathon is in a similar situation where it’s been in development for a while. It went into development when extraction shooters were super hot, I don’t know if that’s the case anymore.

And now, because they’ve put so much money into it, and because it was the furthest along, as opposed to all of their other incubation bets, they’re really putting a lot into it, and I’m just not sure there’s much of a chance that it’s going to succeed. If you would have asked me in January, I would have said ‘yeah, Helldivers 2, this game is going to tank so damn hard, it just looks like a disaster’, and of course it turned out to be the biggest thing ever, so that’s why I like to report and not so much make predictions,” Schreier said.

So it’s pretty much a gas inside Bungie. There’s nothing but concern about Destiny, and the marathon is making morale worse. How are they going to get out of this?

Source: VGC