Bungie has reportedly canceled its challenge that was known as “Payback”, which many believed can be Future 3. The challenge is alleged to be a kind of affected by this week’s restructuring of the developer which led to greater than 200 layoffs throughout each degree of the corporate.
Is Future 3 canceled?
Future 3 has by no means formally been introduced, though Future 2’s artistic director Luke Smith has beforehand implied that one other sport was in improvement. When coupled with earlier rumors that Future 3 was in improvement underneath the codename Payback, most gamers thought a future announcement was a certainty.
Then got here this week’s layoffs. Throughout in the present day’s Sport Mess Mornings podcast, trade insider Jeff Grubb claimed that Payback has now been canceled because of the corporate’s restructure course of: “What’s going on the shelf is Payback. That is what was additionally leaked and reported to be possibly Future 3 – technically not Future 3.”
He continued: “Internally, they’d discuss with it as ‘the subsequent Future’. I don’t know if the excellence is there, however they suppose there’s a distinction there. However that is occurring the shelf indefinitely, in response to the folks I’ve talked to. Both approach, let’s be clear, a ‘Future 3’ or ‘subsequent Future’ is simply not the factor that they will be popping out of this wanting towards not to mention engaged on in any possible way.”
This doesn’t appear to imply the tip for the Future franchise proper now, although. Bungie CEO Pete Parsons stated in an announcement that the developer can be focusing improvement “completely on Future and Marathon” with 850 group members at the moment engaged on the 2 franchises. Solely time will inform whether or not this can finally result in a brand new Future sport.
One other challenge that additionally managed to outlive the layoffs is an incubation challenge that’s an motion sport set in a brand-new science-fantasy universe. This has been handed on to a brand new PlayStation studio. All different incubation initiatives, which stretched the studio “too skinny, too shortly,” have additionally been canceled.