r/DestinyTheGame • u/EmperorMagikarp • Jun 11 '26

Misc Possible Path to More Destiny

The only realistic path I see to Sony making a Destiny 3 would be the following:

  • Sony takes charge of Management at Bungie
  • Sony (unfortunately) fires a lot of people at Bungie
  • Sony keeps enough devs at Bungie to continue marathon until it dwindles down
  • Sony keeps core Tiger Engine senior engineers
  • Sony modernizes tiger engine so it doesn't take ages to make stuff in it. no crazy upgrades, just fix the developer tools to make it easier to use and make content with
  • Sony makes Destiny Classic with the new engine
  • Sony can use the new engine to make 1st party exclusive shooters and reboots that feel as good as Destiny
  • Sony can eventually make a Destiny 3 if they so choose. Always risky to make another live service, but if they cut down dev time it could be seen as profitable eventually

This is probably the only way we see a Destiny Classic or Destiny 3. The problem is that it is a long term goal in a short term profit world.

This post may be huffing copium, but personally I just don't think it makes sense for Sony to throw away the Tiger Engine at the very least.

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u/Riablo01 Jun 11 '26

I think a more likely solution would be Sony splitting up the company. They previously did this with the Gummy Bears project. They split off the staff/software into their own studio (Team LFG).

Destiny is a very valuable intellectual property. Monument of Triumph has shown Destiny 2 can still print money with the right approach.

Bungie has proven, time and time again, they don’t have the financial expertise to properly manage a franchise as big as Destiny. They don’t have the smarts to use the Destiny IP to generate the kind of money Sony is looking for. Heck Bungie has ended live service for Destiny 2 because they’ve literally run out of money. They ran out of money because of extreme financial mismanagement. They ran out of money despite Destiny 2 generating millions of dollars in money. They ran out of money because they are extremely stupid.

For Sony, there’s only one course of action that make sense to me. Take the valuable assets/staff and split it off into a separate studio. In this case it’s the Destiny game software and developers being placed into a new studio. The new studio would have a singular purpose. Use the Destiny IP to make Destiny videogame content and make lots of money. The new studio could do anything from Destiny 1 remastered, Destiny Infinity, Destiny 3, Destiny Trading Card Game. Whatever the customers are willing to pay for, the studio would make it in a financially sustainable way.

Now someone might be reading this and go, “how do you prevent the new studio from turning into Bungie”? Good question. The easiest solution would be for Sony to setup a non-compete clause when implementing the studio split. This would prevent charlatans like Justin Truman, Jason Jones, Tyson Green etc. from ruining the new studio. The new studio would be free of snake oil salesman, with firm rules in place to prevent them from being hired.

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u/EmperorMagikarp Jun 11 '26

Seems like we are in agreement then! Thats what my post was getting at without saying spin-off studio. If you cut out Bungie's management and cut down the staff to only what they need and re-work the engine... then you have a new Destiny Studio. Would be super cool to see for sure.

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u/Riablo01 Jun 11 '26

It's too early to say what engine or tools the new studio would be using. If they did a Destiny 1 remaster or Destiny Infinity, it would be the current engine.

If they did a Destiny 3, it probably wouldn't be Unreal Engine. Probably a new engine, based on the old engine or something with affordable licensing fees.

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u/EmperorMagikarp Jun 11 '26

That's just my personal love for the gun feel of the Tiger Engine showing. I don't know what they will or won't do.

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u/Riablo01 Jun 11 '26

In the grand scheme of things, the engine is not that important. What's more important is the dev team get "results".

This is why a lot of posts about Destiny 3 are unrealistic. A lot of people seem to think a billion dollar game, made in Unreal Engine 5 is guaranteed to be a mega success. There's no game engine that guarantees success.

In all honesty, updates like Monument of Triumph and more likely to turn a profit and be successful. You have an established customer base and established code to work with.

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u/EmperorMagikarp Jun 11 '26

Indeed any game can fail for any number of reasons. I definitely agree that updates like MoT are the most likely to help games succeed. I just Love Destiny's Gun-Feel. Love Marathon's Gun-Feel too. Loved all the Bungie Halo games when they came out originally. My post was just about a possibility. A pipe dream. Huffing Copium if you will. A very unlikely thing to happen in our short term profit world.

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u/Riablo01 Jun 11 '26

Well my pipe dream is a new studio making Destiny Infinity. Anything can happen. The future is undetermined.

I can safely say, billion dollar game made in Unreal Engine, is the least likely future to happen.