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On September 18, 2026, US-based Bungie announced that it will once again position Destiny 2 as one of its main titles, gradually restoring campaigns, locations, and raids that had been placed in the “vault.” Reflecting on its new title Marathon, the company said it “understood the game’s uniqueness, but it didn’t reach as many players as we’d hoped” — a remark widely read as a de facto course correction. On 5ch’s console-wars (ゲハ) board, reactions ranged from welcoming Destiny 2’s survival to jabs at Marathon’s poor performance and sarcasm about Bungie’s development decisions and investment choices.
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Source: bungie.net / Original article here
What people said
lol they basically just admitted Marathon fell short of expectations
they've basically fully admitted Marathon was a huge flop lmao
and how many Japanese players does Destiny 2 even have anyway lol
so the policy was basically "we'll fund Bungie, but not Kojima!" huh lol
Remember Astro Bot? Wasn't that supposed to be a GOTY winner?
Sony really saddled itself with a ton of debt from that panic buy lol
Pretty sure there isn't a single one lol
(´・ω・｀) *sigh*
So Kojima, tough luck, your contract's getting cancelled!
plenty of games have run for over 10 years without any major upgrades, so that's not really something worth attacking them for
Marathon really was a massive failure
aren't they supposed to be making new content?
you can actually fight
solo, it's brutal, exhausting
there's a hard damage ceiling
so it'd be a waste to throw away
that's basically the reason
lol that line got me
😂 now you get why Xbox's Phil Spencer didn't want Bungie, right?
what a match made in heaven
https://www.famitsu.com/article/202606/77607
— It's been about a year since you became CEO. How would you assess the PlayStation business's results over this past year?
Nishino: In terms of the business, PS5 sales reached 16 million units last fiscal year, with strong purchases worldwide — that's a huge achievement. PlayStation Plus has also been performing well, and I feel good momentum there.
On the content side, third parties released a lot of great titles too. Among our own titles, 'Ghost of Yōtei' was very well received by users, and we also launched 'Marathon,' which I feel a lot of players have been enjoying.
and yet they kept insisting over and over that Marathon was a success lol
There's zero logic behind these decisions.
This is exactly how a company behaves when it's run by internal political maneuvering instead of sense.
The fact that they're not making Destiny 3 shows Sony's completely lost its appetite for investing in games
Guess Concord left that much of a scar on them lol
so copying that is really the only move here
Blizzard's been doing incredibly well since Microsoft bought them
though maybe that just means things were that bad before
I don't play anything but OW, but it's hard to believe there was a whole funeral atmosphere with everyone counting down to shutdown just a few years ago
if Diablo's doing well too, that's great to hear
Background and key points of this story
Since 2021, Bungie has been setting aside some of Destiny 2’s campaigns, raids, and locations into what it calls the “Destiny Content Vault,” concentrating development resources instead on its next title, Marathon. This latest announcement marks a course correction: after Marathon failed to reach the scale of players Bungie had hoped for, the company is now restoring that vaulted content to Destiny 2. The frequent mentions of Hideo Kojima in the thread actually relate to a separately reported partnership between Sony and Kojima Productions, and it’s easy to mistake them as connected to this announcement when they aren’t. It’s also worth noting, to make sense of the reactions, that SIE CEO Hideaki Nishino had previously spoken positively about how Marathon was received, which is why some commenters are questioning how that squares with this sudden change of direction.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hardware/Industry (Console Wars)) thread “Bungie Is Reviving Destiny 2! Making It a Flagship Title Again — Marathon Also Getting Rebooted.”
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