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11/26/2012 5:51:28 AM
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Destiny at VGAs? Next-gen launch title?
It's a known fact in the gaming industry that new IPs don't get very far nowadays on current generation consoles, which means it wouldn't be too crazy to assume Bungie knows this and wants to wait and release Destiny alongside the next-gen consoles as a launch title.
This time period is by far the best time to ever release new IPs, and with all the rumors of the consoles coming in 2013, it's possible we could see a debut trailer at the VGAs coming up soon. Since Bungie likes to announce their games about a year before release, this seems reasonable.
Share your speculations.
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I believe I said this in a previous thread on the same subject. Since it's back, I'll say it again. [url=http://jasonschreier.com/2011/12/11/spike-vgas/]The VGAs are garbage[/url]. I would be incredibly disappointed to see Destiny unveiled at an event like that. E3 would be fantastic, but might be a bit late, depending on the timeline. I keep hearing 2013, but that might be the year for an unveiling, and not a release, so we can skip the damn VGAs for good. Anyways... I'll jump in here and say that because the contract between Activision and Bungie was made public, things are even more subject to change. These weird technicalities and complications may have been smoothed out. [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] PVSpartanL36 [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] ecartman1214 I keep seeing people post about porting the title between generations of the console. We don't know the capabilities of the new Gen Xbox. It could have limited backwards compatibility much like the Xbox 360 has with Xbox original games. Being said the contract merely says the game must be compatible for both systems, it doesn't say Destiny #1 should be developed for the Xbox 720. The best example is Halo 2. Halo 2 came out a year before the Xbox 360 but was designed to be played on both consoles and was one of the very few that could do so on the initial Xbox 360 release.[/quote]But why would they even mention the 720 in the contract as a platform for Destiny 1 if they were going to rely on the 720's backwards compatibility to play the 360 version? The 720 would simply be running the game on a mock 360, so there would be no need to indicate the 720 as an individual platform. Personally, I would make the comparison to The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. It was intended to be a GameCube release alone at first, but later in development Nintendo decided to make a version to launch with the Wii as well as the GameCube version. While it was basically the same content, the Wii version was drastically different in its controls. Similarly, I think we'll see significant differences between a 360 and 720 version of Destiny that take advantage of the more powerful 720 hardware, like improved visuals and load times.[/quote] [Edited on 11.26.2012 2:18 PM PST]
