Bungie isn’t immediately making Destiny 3, is planning layoffs, reports Bloomberg

Today’s not-entirely-unexpected announcement that Destiny 2 will no longer receive “live service content updates” has some fans hoping that Bungie is performing a controlled demolition to make way for Destiny 3.

According to sources who spoke to Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier, however, Bungie isn’t immediately buckling down on Destiny 3, and doesn’t yet have any specific project greenlit for the Destiny 2 development team to start on.

There will be layoffs at the company, Bloomberg reports.

None of this rules out the eventual development of Destiny 3, or another game in the Destiny universe, but if Bungie isn’t even past the pitching and prototyping stage, we can expect it to be a long time before we hear about anything other than Marathon, which Schreier says the studio will invest more in.

Bungie has had a hard time getting new projects out the door. In 2024, the company laid off more than 200 employees after cancelling a Destiny spin-off called Payback. Former Bungie CEO Pete Parsons said at the time that the studio had been stretched too thin across “several incubation projects.”

The word “incubation” came up again in today’s announcement, which stated that Bungie is moving on from Destiny 2 to “begin work incubating” its next games.

Extraction shooter Marathon did make it to launch, and is quite good, though its sales aren’t where Bungie or Sony would like them to be. In a clear attempt to attract more of the Arc Raiders audience to its shores, Bungie plans to add a more casual PvE mode to the game in an upcoming update.

I’ve reached out to Bungie for comment on its post-Destiny 2 plans.