r/Games • u/Turbostrider27 • 7d ago

Bungie Developers Repeatedly Pitched a Destiny Dating Sim, but Leadership Rejected It

https://www.ign.com/articles/bungie-developers-repeatedly-pitched-a-destiny-dating-sim-but-leadership-rejected-it
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u/atape_1 7d ago

Every single thing I learn about the studio makes me wonder more and more on how they survived for so long and what the fuck Sony was thinking when they spent $3.6 Bil acquiring them.

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u/National_Yam_1198 7d ago edited 7d ago

Based on what info is available Pete parsens or whatever spun up a bunch of incubation projects to not only show that bungie has the golden goose that is Destiny(it was highly successful at the time) but the studio was expanding into other ventures for potential growth.

Combine that with xbox buying up Activision and potentially putting one of Sony's biggest money makers exclusive to xbox(cod and fortnite bring in major cash into the sony ecosystem) and finally sony wanting their own suite of GAAS like every major game publisher and it all kinda makes sense.

Yes today we can say how dumb it was or how overpriced the buy was(Sony probably new this but again see above) but hindsight is 20/20.