With Destiny 2 seemingly going nowhere, Bungie probably tied all its hopes to Marathon. The stylised extraction shooter was supposed to take the studio into the next generation, but it hit a major hurdle along the way. Bungie was accused of stealing an independen🃏t artist's work and even featured it in several 💟ౠtrailers and artwork.
Marathon Is The 🤡Casual Extraction Shooter No On𒁃e Wants
Marathon takes the friction out of the 🎐extraction shooter genre, but the friction is what gives the genre its depth.
Not just that, it seems like a lot of the game's design philosophy was taken from the artist. While the studio blamed a former employee, a major rework was warranted and all 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:🅷marke🐎ting for Marathon had been put on hold. This gave rise to rumours that the game might be del🍨ayed or even cancelled. However, it seems 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:PlayStation has co𒉰nfirmed that the game is still on track to launch this year.
Almost At The Finish Line
As spotted by Redditorℱ , in a recent business segment for Sony Entertainment Interactive, one of the slides (slide 27) mentions that Marathon is still set for a 2025 launch. The presentﷺation is dated for June 13 2025, and it was given by SIE CEO Hideaki Nishino and SIE Studio Business Group Hermen Hulst, so it's unlikely that it's a mistake.
As the slide in question reveals, Sony is drilling down on a number of live-service games from various studios. MLB The Show, Destiny 2, Helldivers 2, Marathon, and even the recently announced Fairgames were all present on the slide – with Marathon under a 'FY25' (financial Year 2025) tab. Ho🎶wever, no exact dat🧸e was given for its launch.
When Did We All Decide Extraction Shooters Were The New Th🦋ing
Marathon, Helldivers 2, Arc Raiders, Mycopunk, and a c꧃anceled Titanfall extraction shootℱer. Is there space for all of that?
In fact, Marathon features in the foll🍌owing two slides as we𒈔ll, with the second one saying the focus for FY2025 will be "Strong Early Engagement for Bungie’s Bold and Innovative New Title".
The devs at Bungie are probably busy scrubbing every bit of the artist 4nt1r34l🎐's work from the game at the moment. It's unclear how long it will take for development to get back on track, but it's understandable if PlayStation decides to give it some more time to cool off.
