No Destiny til 2014

by uberfoop , Seattle-ish, Monday, February 18, 2013, 21:16 (4295 days ago) @ Kalamari

I think Destiny would have a far greater impact if it was released in 2014 on next-gen hardware. It just seems silly to me that a developer would spend so many resources on a title for 8 year-old hardware when more capable platforms are right around the corner.

Target an install base of <15M.

Or an install base of probably 100M plus that install base of <15M.

The God of War franchise was faced with a similar decision in 2007, and they went with targeting the Playstation 2, to huge success. If you can pull off what you want to pull off on the older hardware, it's not necessarily a catastrophic decision. You've got to really sell that idea, but it can work.

One good thing is that the extra power of Durango and Orbis are probably not completely going to waste on Destiny. Even if the graphics are "basically the same", there'll probably be a massive boost in image quality, performance, asset quality, and all that good stuff.