Bungie and Sony are contemplating a $40 price ticket for Marathon, it’s been claimed.
That’s in line with a number of sources speaking to The Sport Put up, who recommended the PvP extraction shooter’s launch value might match that of two different dwell service video games lately printed by Sony.
They embody certainly one of this yr’s greatest releases, Helldivers 2, and certainly one of 2024’s greatest flops, Harmony, each of which have been launched for PS5 and PC.
Sony stated in Could that Helldivers 2 had change into PlayStation’s fastest-selling sport launch ever, with gross sales “far exceeding expectations” at 12 million copies offered in its first 12 weeks.
In distinction, Sony pulled Harmony from sale and took the sport offline inside two weeks of its launch final month, following studies that it could have offered as few as 25,000 copies.
Not like Helldivers 2 and Harmony, Marathon can be coming to Xbox Sequence X/S, with full cross-play and cross-save throughout PC and consoles.
One supply instructed The Sport Put up that the core gameplay construction of the class-based sci-fi shooter is much like titles like Escape from Tarkov, however with a “Bungie twist.”
It’s additionally claimed that there are at the moment two maps in a playable state, one set aboard the Marathon ship and one other which takes place in an deserted colony planetside.
Whereas a launch window has by no means been introduced by Sony, Marathon was reportedly focusing on a 2024 launch previous to a delay.
Earlier this yr former Valorant sport director Joe Ziegler introduced that he had taken over as Marathon sport director, amidst studies that former sport director Christopher Barrett had left the corporate.
It was lately claimed that Barrett was fired by Bungie after being accused of inappropriate behaviour.
