When Sony announced its intention to acquire Destiny 2 developer Bungie in January 2022 for an eye-watering $.3.6 billion, it said the company would be "an independent subsidiary" under the direction of the studio's then-current management team, and that it would remain a multiplatform studio with the option "to self-publish and reach players wherever they choose to play." Destiny 2 seemed like a perpetual money machine, after all, and Sony saw no reason to fix what wasn't broken.
But fast-forward through three very rough years for Bungie, and things aren't nearly so rosy. And now it seems that Sony has seen enough, as Sony chief financial officer and corporate executive officer Lin Tao said during the company's recent quarterly earnings call that those days of independence are coming to an end.
