Destiny 3 dominated conversation during PlayStation’s latest State of Play presentation, with fans flooding the official Twitch chat throughout the show’s opening. The stream was packed with Destiny-related emotes and the hashtag #WeWantDestiny3, making the demand for a new entry in the Bungie franchise impossible to ignore. YouTube viewers were somewhat less vocal, though a clear contingent there also pushed for another Destiny game. The intensity caught some off guard, especially since PlayStation kicked things off with an extended look at Marvel’s Wolverine, widely considered its biggest release of the year. Still, audience attention stayed fixed on calls for more Destiny.
The outburst comes roughly two weeks after Bungie confirmed it would wind down support for Destiny 2 and shift its full attention to Marathon while nurturing other projects. Bloomberg separately reported that the studio was gearing up for significant layoffs and that Destiny 3 was not actively being developed. That reporting raised serious questions about whether a third installment would ever materialize, given the massive production costs involved. Marathon underperformed commercially, and Destiny 2’s player base has been shrinking for the past couple of years. Those factors leave Sony with little reason to hand Bungie another $300 million or more for a project that would not launch until sometime in the 2030s.
Destiny fans have been reeling since that news broke, and many are now determined to sway Bungie and PlayStation. One organized effort aims to top Marathon’s all-time peak concurrent player count on June 9, the day Destiny 2’s final content update arrives, as a demonstration of ongoing appetite for the series. Hitting that mark would require at least 77,359 simultaneous players on Steam for Marathon. Whether the community can actually rally that many remains an open question, though any substantial surge would be hard to dismiss. For those tracking the growing movement, a petition urging Sony to greenlight Destiny 3 is currently gathering 120,000 signatures and continues to grow. This surge in activism follows reports that Bungie is set to make major job cuts, with Destiny 3 development not currently underway.
Realistically, fans face steep odds in pushing Bungie and PlayStation toward a full Destiny 3. A more plausible path might involve a smaller spin-off that could be produced more quickly and cheaply. Bungie’s broader direction remains murky, though reports indicate the studio still sees potential in telling more stories set within the Destiny universe.
