More Bungie Devs Are Working On ‘Marathon’ Than ‘Destiny 2’ Now

InnovationGamingMore Bungie Devs Are Working On ‘Marathon’ Than ‘Destiny 2’ NowByPaul Tassi,Senior Contributor.Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. News and opinion about video games, television, movies and the internet.Follow AuthorApr 22, 2026, 10:50am EDT--:-- / --:--This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more.This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more.Destiny 2BungieMarathon continues to try to retain and attract players with Bungie launching the game a month ago, and Sony is eyeing it to see if it can break PlayStation’s recent live service curse. But Bungie’s primary live service, Destiny 2, is fading quickly with a lack of updates, and it may not surprise you that Destiny 2 is not, in fact, Bungie’s primary live service anymore. Or at least it’s close to a tie.My sources at Bungie confirmed to me that while previously, Destiny had a fairly significant edge in devs working on the game, now, of the 800 or so remaining Bungie employees, it’s now more evenly split, with Marathon now edging out Destiny 2 by a bit. Though obviously, the two games share some amount of logistics support within Bungie.Previous information on the original split was from a combination of comments from Joe Ziegler and reporting from Jason Schreier, who said that after layoffs and cancellations, about 300 of Bungie’s 850 employees were working on Marathon, with 550, the clear majority, still working on Destiny 2.But at launch and now post-launch, those two sections of the company have drawn neck and neck and getting Marathon some momentum is obviously the larger priority for Bungie at the moment.The issue that’s pretty clear to players looking at both games is that Marathon is a game with four maps and six classes currently, while Destiny 2 has been previously sustained by a constant stream of PvE content, and at least, formerly, PvP content, which fell by the wayside much before this, with much of that team heading to Marathon a long ti...