Bungie is laying off “most” of the Destiny 2 team after the shooter MMO’s final update earlier this month. According to a statement from the PlayStation-owned studio, the company determined the game “fell short of expectations these past several years,” and is now restructuring its workforce as its next projects are in “early incubation.” These cuts also include letting go of some of the folks working on Marathon, support for which is still ongoing.
This is the latest in a long line of mass layoffs at PlayStation, which has also shuttered Concord developer Firewalk Studios, Demon’s Souls and Shadow of the Colossus remake team Bluepoint, and Singstar developer London Studio. All in all, it seems pretty dire over at PlayStation Studios, and Bungie, which Sony acquired for $3.6 billion in 2022, has apparently led to a $560 million loss for the company. Bungie had already undergone significant layoffs under Sony, and now the company is whittling down the developer even further.
The whole thing is a case study in the crash resulting from studios chasing the live-service dream of forever games and massive profits, and the end result is that people who made a game that people loved are losing their jobs thanks to years of mismanagement by people who are still employed. Even people who don’t play Destiny 2 have reason to lament what’s happened.
Bungie has given me literally thousands of hours of amazing entertainment through their games. Very sad to see the talent of this studio getting torn apart 😔 https://t.co/m0ivUzqpOt
— Tom Warren (@tomwarren) June 25, 2026
wonder who the fucking problem is pic.twitter.com/aQAXX4ORLX
— #1 Dredgen Bael Defender (@destiny_thememe) June 25, 2026
To the developers who worked so tirelessly to build magical worlds and tell uniquely beautiful stories…thank you.
…to leadership that hamstrung development and pointed business in the wrong direction again and again – I paraphrase Byf’s video by quoting Toland: “Squanderers!” https://t.co/uO0cm2xKCp
— Matthew Rehwoldt (@DramaKingMatt) June 25, 2026
I am seething with hatred. It’s been an ongoing discussion with my psychologist for a while now but tonight has just added to why I hate this world and how it has just turned to greed.
There will be no punishment for the leadership at Bungie. They won’t face the consequences.…
— Shez 💫 (@shezabubadino) June 25, 2026
“We recognize that Bungie’s leadership fell short of its responsibilities to our Devs, our community and the future of Destiny”
There.. Fixed it for you.
Because this is NOT on the Devs. Or on Destiny. https://t.co/BQIIP7qcvH— Artdeck Games (@ArtdeckGames) June 25, 2026
One small but very telling detail in this whole thing is that the URL that leads to Sony’s announcement of the Bungie layoffs is almost identical to the one it used when it announced that it was shutting down Firewalk, with the only difference being that the Bungie announcement has a “2” at the end of the slug. It’s as if it’s a sequel to all the previous carnage.
We still don’t know how many people are affected by the layoffs at Bungie, but some developers have marked themselves as “safe” from the cuts thus far. We’ll know the full scale of this preventable disaster in the coming days.
I am safe. I’m not okay but I’m safe. If you are a recruiter and you see a Bungie dev in the hiring process, please know they are resilient grinders who deserve a shot. To my friends: go easy and until the next one, o7
— Danny Nanni 🎮 (@dannynanni) June 25, 2026
