Bloomberg says the studio is not engaged on Future 3.
Bungie, the PlayStation studio behind Future, is planning a “important quantity” of layoffs, in accordance with Bloomberg. The report got here shortly after the studio introduced that it was ending active development on Future 2 to start out engaged on its subsequent video games. Bloomberg says, nonetheless, that Bungie does not have any new initiatives lined up, and it does not plan to right away begin engaged on Future 3.
The studio will as an alternative give attention to its newest recreation Marathon, its first-person shooter that got here out in March, maybe in an effort to develop the type of options and updates that may get extra gamers to enroll. Marathon did not carry out fairly in addition to Sony had hoped, and it had led to a $560 million loss for the corporate for the quarter that ended after the sport got here out. Bungie had already moved some Future workers to the Marathon workforce in current months, which indicators that it is placing extra sources into the struggling recreation.
It is not fairly clear if Bungie has stable plans for Future 3 at this level, or if it is attainable that the sport would not occur in any respect. Employees members have reportedly been pitching new initiatives, together with titles for the Future franchise, however Sony hasn’t accepted any of them. For now, followers can nonetheless look ahead to Future 2’s final stay service replace, Monument of Triumph, which will likely be rolling out on June 9. The studio plans to maintain the sport’s servers on-line and to maintain it playable for years to come back, however as IGN notes, followers are fearful about the potential of Sony shutting down the studio utterly prefer it did Bluepoint. In the event you’ll recall, Bluepoint was a first-party studio behind loads of PlayStation remakes and had even wished to work on Bloodborne earlier than it was shuttered.
Sony purchased Bungie in 2022 for $3.6 billion, just a few years after the studio launched Future 2. Shortly after Sony’s acquisition was finalized, the corporate laid off staffers and delayed the discharge of Marathon and the growth Bungie was engaged on for Future 2 again then. Future was as soon as probably the most standard on-line video games on the market, however its sequel didn’t quite meet Sony’s expectations after it acquired the studio.
