The Next Destiny Game, Codenamed Payback, Has Reportedly Been Cancelled

The next Destiny game, codenamed Payback, was reportedly canceled a while ago, and it looks like Sony will be supporting Destiny 2 for the near future.

According to Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier, Destiny developer Bungie was reportedly working on Payback, which was a spin-off. However, the project was reportedly canceled a while ago and only “very early work” was done on it. Schreier also clarified that a “Destiny 3” was not canceled because it was never in development anyway.

Giant Bomb’s Jeff Grubb said on Game Mess Mornings that reportedly Bungie referred to Payback as “the next Destiny” and not Destiny 3, but it was indefinitely shelved. “Either way, let’s be clear, a ‘Destiny 3’ or ‘next Destiny’ is just not the thing that they are going to be coming out of this looking toward let alone working on in any real way,” he explained.

Additionally, Bungie is reportedly committed to supporting Destiny 2, but future content updates will be significantly smaller compared to the large expansions that the game has had in the past like the most recent The Final Shape. Reportedly, Bungie refers to them internally as “content packs” now.

Bungie laid off more than 200 people yesterday, with some remaining employees transitioning to internal positions within now-parent company Sony as well as creating a new studio to work on a new action game. According to Grubb, Bungie reportedly still expects its extraction shooter, Marathon, to still hit its 2025 release window.