Bungie reportedly considered a Destiny 2 relaunch called Destiny Infinity before deciding to wind down the live-service shooter after its June 9 update.
The claim comes from Forbes reporter Paul Tassi, who cited sources within Bungie in a new look at how the studio reached its decision. According to the report, Destiny Infinity would have moved Destiny 2 away from its two-expansion model and back toward one larger annual expansion, with the new name positioned as a relaunch instead of a clean sequel.
The same report says Destiny 3 was also discussed but was not greenlit. Tassi writes that his sources do not believe a Destiny 3 is currently coming, and that cost was the major obstacle across the options Bungie considered.
Destiny Infinity reportedly lost out to cost and risk
Tassi's report puts the turning point after The Edge of Fate and Renegades, saying the former underperformed expectations while the latter did worse and failed to change the game's sales or retention trajectory. Those results reportedly pushed internal conversations about whether Destiny 2 should continue with its newer content model, return to a larger expansion cadence or move toward a sequel.
The cost of a full Destiny 3 has become part of that discussion. The report cites Jason Schreier's recent estimate that building a new Destiny sequel from scratch could cost around $500 million before marketing and post-launch support, and says industry sources viewed that figure as plausible in the current market.
That makes the Destiny Infinity pitch notable because it sounds like Bungie was searching for a middle ground, not simply choosing between indefinite Destiny 2 support and a massive sequel. A relaunch could have given the long-running shooter a new marketing beat without throwing away the existing game, but the report says Bungie ultimately judged every continuation scenario as too expensive or risky.
Marathon reportedly was a factor, not the single trigger
The report also pushes back on the idea that Marathon's launch alone decided Destiny 2's fate. According to Tassi, no one was waiting on Marathon's launch-day performance to determine whether Destiny 2 would live or die, although Marathon still factored into Bungie's broader resource picture after years of staff and attention shifting toward the extraction shooter.
Bungie's handling of Destiny has been under the microscope since reports that Destiny 2's final live-service update would arrive on June 9. The decision has also fed into wider questions about Sony's Bungie acquisition, especially after Sony previously wrote down Bungie assets when projects missed expectations.
Fans have responded with a petition for Destiny 3 and plans for a June 9 login surge, but Tassi's report says those efforts are not expected to reverse the current decision. Bungie has not announced Destiny 3, Destiny Infinity or any other replacement plan for Destiny 2 after the June update.