Though the studio’s only major project for quite some time now has beenDestiny,Bungieis now looking for ways to spread its proverbial wings with all-new projects. While this was to be expected, especially following Sony’s acquisition of the company, some specifics about the studio’s unannounced projects still come as a surprise.
While there’s little actual, verifiable information out there aboutBungie’s new game, some tidbits have come out as part of the company’s latest hiring push. According to Bungie’s own job listings, the company is not looking for FPS experts at this time, and may actually be hoping to branch out into entirely different genres.
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At this time, Bungie is hiring a new Creative Director to oversee its unannounced project. Considering previously available information,Bungie’s next game may be live-service, but the job listing also implies that it’s going to be a character-focused third-person game, putting it in stark contrast with the majority of the studio’s previous output. While Bungie did dabble in other genres, such as RTS withMythand third-person shooter withOni, it’s been 20 years since the studio put out a non-FPS game.
It also seems reasonably likely that Bungie’s unannounced third-person character shooter will be a part ofSony’s plan to launch 10 live-service gamesby 2026. According to some theories, this is one of the reasons why Sony spent billions of dollars on Bungie in the first place: for the company’s unprecedented expertise in designing, launching, and maintaining live-service titles such asDestiny 2over a long period of time.
It’s worth pointing out that there’s merit to this idea, asSony spent over $1 billion on employee benefitsfor Bungie, so that the studio’s veteran developers didn’t leave the industry and go into early retirement. A character-driven third-person title could be an interesting project for the studio, and that’d be a simple way to differentiate it fromDestinyitself, so as not to cannibalize the game’s existing player base.
Of course, there’s remains the matter of exclusivity: now that Bungie is under Sony’s umbrella, some of its fans had been worried that the studio’s future output may end up being exclusive to PlayStation consoles or some such. Since then,Bungie has issued a commitment to multiplatform releases, which means that the project it’s currently hiring for should be coming out on PC and Xbox platforms, rather than just on PlayStation.
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