How does Bungie plan to handle splintering?

by Malagate , Sea of Tranquility, Wednesday, May 22, 2013, 07:48 (4212 days ago) @ HiredN00bs

I think having a unified universe would have been amazing enough to put the weight of Bungie and Activision behind coercing the hardware companies. "If you won't let us provide cross-platform play, Destiny will not come to your platform."

I would that it were so. I think the industry's best next step is to start bridging as many gaps between player populations as possible. Activision certainly has the experience with running large scale operations like that, and a client is a client is a client (to a point, of course) with regard to a game session. If there is a second login layer beyond the platform's online services, I don't see why at that point once there is a degree of security authentication already established, there would be any real difference in the experience. Of course it's broad strokes, and there are plenty of considerations, but what are the really good reasons why not?

~M