Bungie’s been having a tough previous time ever since its 2022 acquisition by Sony: there have been a number of rounds of layoffs, a delay to the seemingly ill-fated extraction shooter Marathon, after which earlier this yr a report quoting staff as saying morale is in “free fall.” Nicely, the newest out of Sony is not going to assist that.
In its newest monetary report Sony says that Bungie has failed to fulfill targets and Future 2 is underperforming (thanks, IGN). The report features a 31.5 billion yen (approx. $204.2 million) “impairment loss” that it attributes to Future 2 failing to hit targets, with chief monetary officer Lin Tao telling buyers:
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It is also not an excessive amount of of a stretch to see Sony’s statements within the context of the disaster that was Harmony. A serious a part of Sony’s rationale for buying Bungie was the studio’s experience within the dwell service style however, after taking such an eye-watering loss on Harmony and shutting its developer, the corporate’s once-bullish method to dwell service has gone the way in which of the dodo: it has now cancelled eight out of a dozen dwell service video games that had been as soon as in improvement.
So much is clearly driving on Marathon. PCG’s resident Bungie fanatic Tim Clark discovered loads to love within the extraction shooter, even earlier than the delay, however the temper music across the sport could not be worse: even the devs behind Arc Raiders noticed the reactions to Marathon’s early playtests as some nice suggestions on what to not do. These are unhealthy occasions for a as soon as nice studio.
