{"id":1961907,"date":"2026-05-29T12:24:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T09:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1961907"},"modified":"2026-05-29T12:24:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T09:24:46","slug":"bungie-reportedly-considered-relaunching-destiny-as-destiny-infinity-before-deciding-to-pull-the-plug-on-destiny-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1961907","title":{"rendered":"Bungie Reportedly Considered Relaunching Destiny as ‘Destiny Infinity’ Before Deciding to Pull the Plug on Destiny 2"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bungie’s issues with its storied sci-fi shooter, Destiny 2<\/u><\/a>, began around the time of the last summer’s Edge of Fate expansion, which reportedly underperformed. The decision to pull the plug was allegedly made “earlier this year” after it decided not to relaunch the franchise as “Destiny Infinity.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

That’s according to Forbes<\/u><\/a>, which said the Sony-owned studio began discussing different scenarios about “what the future of Destiny 2 would look like” after December’s Renegades, its Star Wars-themed crossover expansion, “did even worse [than Edge of Fate] and didn’t change sales or retention trajectory.”<\/p>\n

Destiny Infinity would have been a relaunch alongside a return to the one big expansion model Destiny used to have, but the idea fell by the wayside after it was allegedly decided that the costs and risks were too high, especially in the context of support for Marathon.<\/p>\n

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Destiny 3 “was considered, as ever, but things didn’t swing that way,” and there has been no behind-the-scenes hints that a third Destiny game is coming, with the cost of the game’s production cited as the key issue. Interestingly, it’s thought Marathon’s subjective success or failure was “not the tipping point of all of this.”<\/p>\n

The revelations come a week after Bungie confirmed content updates for its live service shooter would end on June 9<\/u><\/a>, nearly nine years after launch. The studio behind Halo, which recently released extraction shooter Marathon<\/u><\/a>, said Destiny 2 will remain playable despite active development ending.<\/p>\n

Destiny 1 launched on September 9, 2014 for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, and Xbox One. It enjoyed enormous commercial success, but met with a mixed response from critics. As part of a high-profile publishing deal with Call of Duty company Activision, Destiny expansions and updates followed. <\/p>\n

Destiny 2 launched on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on September 6, 2017, with a PC version following a month later. Behind the scenes, however, tension between Bungie and Activision emerged, and the two companies officially parted ways in January 2019, ending their 10-year publishing deal five years early.<\/p>\n