Destiny 3 has never been greenlit, but the search results still say otherwise. We put the rumor timeline in date order, set Bungie's own on-record answer against the leaks, and work out what a realistic release window looks like once you follow the money Sony has already written off.

Update 9.7.0.3 gets called Destiny 2's final patch almost everywhere you look. It wasn't. Update 9.7.0.4 shipped on July 28 with no patch notes, and Bungie has switched off two armor set bonuses and a Crucible map since then with no version number attached. Here's the full chronology, and how to track changes now that patch notes have stopped.