Where did the assumption of Destiny 2 2016 originate? (Destiny)

by electricpirate , Friday, January 22, 2016, 14:44 (3322 days ago) @ Schedonnardus

There's been a lot of salt recently on reddit and other forums to the tune of "looks like Destiny 2 isn't happening this year." This sentiment (that it's not happening) seemed to just morph out of thin air these past couple of weeks. Before then, i had never seen any assumptions that it would happen.

When is the last time that bungie announced a new title (not expansion) in the same calendar year as release? I didn't follow Bungie during their Mac days, so I don't know. They definitely haven't done that with console releases.

Halo 1 - 1999, released 2001
Halo 2 - 2002, 2004
Halo 3 - 2006, 2007
ODST - 2008, 2009
Reach - 2009, 2010
Destiny- 2013, 2014

Unless they change their MO, I had personally assumed that a Destiny 2 announcement would come this year, with a 2017 release date. If Destiny is supposed to support a 10-year cycle, i would assume that major releases would be more than 2 years apart, otherwise we'd be looking at "Destiny 5" in ten years.

It came from 2 places.

1. the original contract that came out as part of the infinityward lawsuit. That contract specified alternating year full title releases/ large expansion packs (like TTK).

2. A leaked "Roadmap" image about how Year one would have 2x small DLCs and one large expansion, and year 2 would have 2x small dlcs and a new release.

Obviously, all of these have seen major changes, so at this point no one knows.