Sony is Still Putting Its Faith in ‘Marathon’

Bungie Marathon always leaves, and when it is, Playstation plans to give the extraction shooter a fair blow.

During a recent interview with investors, the director of Sony Interactive Entertainment, Herman Hulst, assured that the game would be released before March 31, 2026, at the end of Sony’s exercise. By approaching his recent alpha test, he won feedback as “varied, but super useful. […] The constant tests, the constant revalidation of the hypotheses we have just talked about, for me, is so precious for Itéré and to constantly improve the title, so when the launch arrives, we will give the title the optimal success. »»

Playing Over PlayStation is the science fiction shooter of 2024 Concord,, which close Weeks after the launch and then led to the closure of the Firewalk studios. It is only one of the many sloppy attempts of attempts at PlayStation to enter live games, which includes several Canceled projects And dismissal In his first party studios. While recognizing these “unique challenges” and attributing Concord Failure of the “hypercompatitious market” of hero shooters, Hulst explained how they avoid the same errors with Marathon.

“This will be the first new Bungie title in more than a decade, and we are aimed at publishing a very daring, very innovative and deeply engaging title. We are monitoring the closed alpha cycle that the team has just passed. We take all the lessons learned, we use the capacities that we have built and analysis tests and user tests to understand how the public is committed to the title.”

One thing that Hulst did not approach, however, was the recent accusations of artistic plagiarism Légé against Bungie. In May, the artist Fern “Antial” Hook published evidence alleging that the studio stole assets which it has done in previous work and failed to credit it. After investigating, Bungie attributed the flight to the work of a former employee, apologized publicly and declared that he would do “everything we can do right” with Hook. He also promised to review all the assets at stake and replace art “on a single problem” with original and internal works.

With the mention of his arrival before the end of the exercise, Marathon can be delayed from its current launch of September 23. At the time of writing, Bungie and PlayStation kept mom on potential delay, but the game failed to appear at the recent play of playing in early June.

[via IGN]

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