http://ap.ign.com/en/news/6937/developers-respond-to-xbox-one IGN asked Bungie their thoughts on Xbox One, and instead of talking about the Xbox they started talking about how much they like PS4. [quote]Eric Osborne, Senior Writer and Head of Community at Bungie: I’m excited for the next generation of games. Not just the horsepower, but the services both parties [Sony and Microsoft] are building around it. [b]When we went down and looked at what our pillars for Destiny would be -- which, by the way, have existed since 2009 -- and then looked at their pillars in candid conversations we were having with Sony before their reveal in February, they’re almost like a mirror with each other. Shared stories, building your legend, living worlds that feel alive instead of a disc in a drive, spaces that are fundamentally cooperative.[/b] All those things line up so well with next-gen messaging. It was exciting for us to see that something we were building was not only fundamentally next-gen without the hardware, but we sort of became the de facto tip-of-the-spear for next-gen by nature of what we were building. [b]I think that’s a really fun place to be...[/b][/quote] Basically they shared the same vision as Sony did with PS4. It's possible that some money was exchanged, but Bungie is not hurting for money at all. I think they are giving PS4 preferential treatment because they like the specs of the system more, and see it as the "gamers system" whereas MS is now focusing on being a media-hub.