Bungie simply went via one other mass layoff with 220 builders dropping their jobs, and on high of that a whole bunch extra builders have been moved round from Bungie to Sony Interactive Leisure or spun-off into their very own new inner studio below PlayStation Studios.
All of which means much less individuals at Bungie that might be engaged on the studio’s most important initiatives like Future and the upcoming Marathon. Whereas the Future group simply completed transport The Ultimate Form, the strain is now on the Marathon group to ship.
So it doesn’t precisely bode effectively to listen to that, in accordance with Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier, sentiment round Marathon at Bungie is “not nice.”
Throughout a visitor spot on the Associates Per Second Podcast, Schreier was requested to offer a “temperature verify” on how Marathon goes, after chatting with quite a lot of Bungie staff for a few of his latest reporting.
” *laughs* Not nice, from what I’ve heard. There’s a motive that it was deliberate for this 12 months and slipped an entire 12 months, and those that I’ve talked to are just a little pessimistic about it even hitting its present deliberate deadline.
However we’ll see.”
Hopefully for Bungie’s sake, issues do pull in the precise course by the point Marathon is on cabinets and digital storefronts.
Supply – [Friends Per Second Podcast]