No.
If you support old gen then you must support 10 year old hardware. That's ancient by any reasonable measure in computer land (yes, computer land is a place.)
Older gen will only hold back the new gen. If they're disabling item comparisons (FFS!) just to introduce something new on the old gen, then there's zero chance of the next game evolving and reaching its potential.
Your machine is 10 years old. Your time is officially up.
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Do your math again, genius. I'm 99.999% positive no one is using a first year console with Destiny, even if they were the 7th generation didn't start until November-ish 2006. Most 7th gen consoles that get a lot of use are only between 1-5 years old.
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Edited by pulvis ira: 5/4/2015 5:23:31 PM[quote]Do your math again, genius. I'm 99.999% positive [/quote] [b]Don't get fresh, kid.[/b] The fact remains, old gen means old gen. Not old gen-S or old-gen-E. I had original up to when I bought XB1 in October. If you're going to cherry pick editions, you're still wasting resources. Oh, and saying to check math and throwing out a stupendously ignorant figure (unsourced) like 99.99999%? Yeah, not helping your case.
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I can't say 100%, because there's always that one guy who uses the original 20gb console. But that's against the point, what I'm saying is you can't tell people that they're wrong and that it doesn't work on their console despite the fact that not much changed between the generations except graphics(and less features on 8th gen.)
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I can't help you if you just generalize your point into oblivion, ignoring the facts in front of us. You cite graphics and I guess that shows your level of insight; graphics are one output of many, and they're hardly the most important. Here's simple math: Dedicate 25% of your resources to each old [i]and[/i] new console; You now have 2 variables to consider when dealing with the lowest common denominator, because 360 and PS3 [i]aren't[/i] equal. You're now making a game that now holds back from maximizing potential on [b]3[/b] consoles. How is that smart? Congrats, you've now played to the lowest common denominator and continue to work in the Stone Age. Or, split your resources 50/50 between XB1 and PS4. That frees up more resources and budget across the board for everything from development, testing, support, storyboarding, cutscenes, new and more complex functionality, better UX, and beyond. Catering to the old consoles is plain bad. Bungie doesn't want it, Activision doesn't want it, and Microsoft and Sony sure as hell don't want it. Their day is past. Let it go.
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Bungie and Activision obviously don't share your viewpoint. Money is money.
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My 360 is two years old. He's right