A new report from Forbes backs up what we heard previously from Jason Schreier while adding a few more details to the situation at Bungie: Destiny 3 is not in development, nothing else has been greenlit, and layoffs are reportedly planned, although not immediately imminent.

Paul Tassi of Forbes published a new report discussing the current situation at Sony-owned Bungie, which recently announced that support for Destiny 2 is ending as the studio shifts its full focus toward Marathon.

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According to Tassi, the vast majority of Bungie employees were unaware that Destiny 2 support was being ended. The decision was reportedly made earlier this year, and some employees had allegedly “begged” leadership to tell staff sooner.

As is often the case with major internal restructuring, developers reportedly continued working on Destiny 2 content until the public announcement was made.

Shortly after Bungie’s announcement, Bloomberg journalist Jason Schreier claimed that Bungie currently has no other projects in development and that layoffs were being planned.

Tassi’s reporting appears to support that claim. According to him, layoffs are expected, but are not immediately around the corner. “They are significant, but not immediately imminent,” Tassi wrote, adding that questions about layoffs during a company town hall were reportedly dodged by leadership.

Tassi also reinforced Schreier’s earlier reporting that Bungie currently has nothing else in active development beyond Marathon. According to Tassi, “Destiny 3 is neither in production nor greenlit,” and no other projects have reportedly been approved either. While there were apparently internal pitches for projects using the Destiny IP, none were given the go-ahead.

He also elaborated on Schreier’s earlier claim that Destiny 3 was viewed as too expensive to pursue, writing that “Sony has been wary of committing to such an expensive undertaking in a market that is in flux and more challenging than ever.”

That hasn’t stopped fans from launching a Change.org petition in an attempt to persuade Sony to allow Bungie to begin development on Destiny 3.

With nothing else reportedly in the pipeline, Bungie now appears heavily reliant on Marathon’s success. According to Tassi, Sony is committing additional resources to the game and intends to give it time to establish itself.

“New PvP/PvE modes are meant to expand the playerbase, and larger teams are meant to put out more content now,” Tassi said.

Tassi also noted that “The fate of Bungie will come down to how much Sony wants to continue to invest in the studio (which it does still value at close to a $3 billion asset) in terms of time or money, and how small they think it needs to be to be sustainable going forward.”

Nothing in Tassi’s report is entirely new, but it does reinforce what we’ve already been hearing while adding a little more detail, including confirming what many suspected: Sony appears unwilling to fund Destiny 3’s development. It puts Bungie in an awkward position because Destiny 3 would have been the most obvious next choice, and potentially the studio’s biggest future money-earner.

The other worrying detail is Tassi’s suggestion that Bungie’s future may depend on how small Sony believes the studio needs to become in order to remain sustainable. Right now, Bungie is reportedly sitting at around 800 employees.

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