New issue of Edge Magazine (no scans, promise)

by stabbim , Des Moines, IA, USA, Wednesday, March 20, 2013, 21:39 (4047 days ago) @ Ragashingo

and surely you can group up and have the system keep your group on the same mission while randomly drawing in others as appropriate.

I think it's a pretty sure thing that this is what Butcher meant by "linking consoles." It's exactly what happens right now with any number of other games when you and a friend are in a party together. In Destiny's case, you are ALSO seeing other gamers at times, but being in a party together is likely to function similarly to how it always has (with the exception of Destiny apparently lacking traditional "menus").