Shutting down old-gen Destiny opens the door for PC

Bungie's Luis Villegas explains that leaving behind the two old-gen platforms opens the doors to bringing a new one in, as it was too much work for the studio to support four platforms at the same time.

[PigsR4Eating]

I really hope this game tanks if it ever comes to pc after bungie prioritized 2 dead consoles over pc

[SilverDemon]

dead consoles even though ps4 is outpacing ps2 (best selling console ever)

dont be butt hurt m8

edit: I thought you were talking about ps4 and 360 my bad :P (I forgot this game released for those systems)

[just_sayin]

He was talking about ps3/360

[ChronoJoe]

While he was talking about PS3 and 360, I think sales figures of Destiny and other titles demonstrated that they were not dead consoles at the time Bungie supported those platforms. They sold over 3.5 million physical units on those 'dead' systems, many more if we account for digital sales.

[IceKoldKilla]

Xbox 360/PS3. Omg, some people. Have you even read the title of the article to stay on topic?

[Father__Merrin]

console sales of titles like this dwarf pc sales, just look at steam stats thats all you need to know

[kevnb]

Ya you are right, heavily marketed mediocre games don't usually do that well on pc.

[sullynathan]

@kevnb they seem to do, Skyrim sold 10 million copies on pc after all and Bethesda games tend to sell millions there. Battlefield also sells really well on pc. There, mediocre games that sell well on pc.

[ONESHOTV2]

whatever you devs say i wouldn't waste my money on this unless it was 20 with all the DLC packed in one. even then i would buy it from G2A just to show them how i feel

[ChronoJoe]

I feel like building the game for PC, and having to support all of the distinct PC configurations might be more than Bungie can chew while pushing out a large body of content and supporting the console releases. I'd be eager to see them do it, if possible, but I suspect that ultimately everyone would suffer.

The game already has a large audience and many of those that will have really wanted to play it will come from a console background, so it's not even clear how much of their potential market their missing. I'm sure internally they have a projection however, and that projection, the theoretical size of the missing userbase will probably determine whether they decide to go for PC support.

[kevnb]

The game needs some improvements before it can be a big hit on pc.

[Aenea]

Maybe with Destiny 2 they will, doubt they will port it in it's current state to PC after reading how crappy their dev. environment is...

[zodiac909]

WOW it's only been 2 years and they screwed over the Ps3 and 360 audience already?! Good thing I got rid of this money sucking cesspool of a game after a month. You can just tell they planned this out before the game launched. "First We'll withhold a bunch of content and get at much fools as we can to buy an expansion every 2 months, then after 2 years we'll say screw the last gen audience. It's BRILLIANT! It's GENIUS! MOOOHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!"

[kaizokuspy]

If you haven't jumped to ps4 or xbox one by now, thas your fault. I switched from 360 to ps4, while my stuff didn't carry over because I switched brands, it's easy to see that it performs better next gen and will no longer be held back by those older consoles limitations.

[Darkwatchman]

The Xbox 360 is 11 years old and the PS3 is 10 years old...a typical console generation is only 4-6 years. We've never had this many cross-gen games in previous generations before except for sports games and licensed cash grabs.

If you expected such ancient technology to still be supported by this point, 3 years into the current generation, that's on you. Get with the times.

[IceKoldKilla]

At this point I'm gonna try avoiding any comments on PC since we clearly have some butthurt master race guys (and gals) in the comments making up bs about Bungie. I will say this, the way Bungie has handled things with consoles, I think they have enough work as it is. Optimizing a game like Destiny that has constant changes must be tough on PC where people play shooter way differently, especially with keyboard and mouse.

[Blubby]

At this point I cant See a PC release anymore

[jmc8888]

ROFL, if they added up every bit of content it might be a full game now. But it still needs matchmaking.

Still haven't done Vault of Glass, and probably never will. Thanks Bungie!