Bungie Walks Away From Destiny 2, Final Content Update Coming in June

Bungie has announced the extremity of contented updates for unrecorded work shooter Destiny 2, astir 9 years aft launch.

The workplace down Halo, which precocious released extraction shooter Marathon, said it volition merchandise the last contented update for Destiny 2 connected June 9, 2026. Destiny 2 volition stay playable contempt progressive improvement ending.

Bungie issued the pursuing connection connected societal media today:

For astir 12 years, we person had the joyousness and grant to research the Destiny beingness with you all. Through each the ups and downs, surprises and triumphs, gathering Destiny alongside our players has been a monumental privilege. While our emotion for Destiny 2 has not changed, it has go wide that aft The Final Shape, we person reached the clip for our shared worlds, and Destiny, to unrecorded beyond Destiny 2. As our absorption turns towards a caller opening for Bungie, we volition statesman enactment incubating our adjacent games. To that end, connected June 9, 2026, we volition merchandise the last live-service contented update for Destiny 2 to statesman that caller travel arsenic a studio. Though progressive improvement whitethorn beryllium concluding, we volition guarantee that Destiny 2 remains playable, conscionable arsenic the archetypal Destiny is today. Many changes successful this last update volition purpose to guarantee that Destiny 2 is simply a welcoming spot for players to instrumentality to. We’re arrogant of Destiny 2, the places it took us, and the bequest it has created. Because of you all, our beingness is vast, built connected years of shared stories, adventures, and victories. From the Cosmodrome to the Pale Heart to the Lawless Frontier, we person forged life-long memories and friendships with you all. We are incredibly grateful to everyone who made that travel with us. From the deepest portion of our hearts, convey you, and we'll spot you successful the stars.

There is nary notation of a aboriginal Destiny video crippled being successful development, nor Marathon. Clearly, Bungie wants to support the speech connected the last updates for Destiny 2 itself. But it does suggest Destiny arsenic a franchise has travel to an end, marking the extremity of an epoch for the genre-defining series.

Destiny 1 launched connected September 9, 2014 for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, and Xbox One. It enjoyed tremendous commercialized success, but met with a mixed effect from critics. As portion of a high-profile publishing woody with Call of Duty institution Activision, Destiny expansions and updates followed. Destiny 2 launched connected PlayStation 4 and Xbox One connected September 6, 2017, with a PC mentation pursuing a period later. Behind the scenes, however, hostility betwixt Bungie and Activision emerged, and the 2 companies officially parted ways successful January 2019, ending their 10-year publishing woody 5 years early.

With Destiny successful its ain hands, Bungie self-published the game, but it couldn't flight fiscal troubles and layoffs arsenic Destiny 2 expansions failed to deed the people and the subordinate basal declined. Sony bought Bungie successful aboriginal 2022 successful a woody valued astatine $3.6 billion. However, Sony has admitted the acquisition has yet to wage off, and it precocious reported a $765 cardinal impairment nonaccomplishment owed to underperformance of Bungie specifically.

During the fiscal twelvemonth ending March 31, 2026, Sony’s Game & Network Services Segment, of which PlayStation is simply a part, suffered a 120.1 cardinal yen (approx. $765 million) impairment nonaccomplishment against Bungie’s assets. Sony had already reported a 31.5 cardinal yen (approx. $204.2 million) impairment complaint arsenic a effect of Destiny 2’s underperformance during the 2nd 4th of its fiscal year. It past reported different 88.6 cardinal yen (approx. $565 million) impairment complaint connected apical of that for the 4th quarter.

Hardcore extraction shooter Marathon launched aboriginal March, wrong the past fiscal twelvemonth and, crucially, wrong the 4th successful which Sony reported the further 88.6 cardinal yen impairment complaint against Bungie. Marathon reportedly had a fund of much than $250 million, and, according to analysts, has failed to conscionable income expectations.

During an investor-focused Q&A, Sony main fiscal serviceman Lin Tao indicated the institution volition instrumentality with Marathon successful a bid to turn its idiosyncratic base. "In our workplace business, net from Bungie’s rubric portfolio did not scope our expectations, truthful we downwardly revised our concern program and impaired the afloat magnitude of the fixed assets related to Bungie but for goodwill," Tao said.

"Player reception to Marathon is strong, with the crippled receiving a Metacritic people of 82 and much than 90% of the subordinate reviews connected Steam being positive. Engagement metrics specified arsenic retention besides stay astatine a precocious level. Going forward, we purpose to amended the show of the crippled by moving to clasp highly engaged halfway users done the instauration of further content, further improvements successful the gameplay acquisition and enlargement of the idiosyncratic base."

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