I’m crossing my fingers for a smooth transition
Not that it necessarily needed to be confirmed, butDestiny 2will be playable on “next-gen platforms.”
Bungie dropped a quick message today on Twitter in response to a thread about Microsoft’s “partner community” of developers who have pledged support for this holiday season’s Xbox Series X.
Destiny 2 will be on next-gen platforms! More details to come.pic.twitter.com/1ZZqGZjjjg
— Bungie (@Bungie)June 14, 2025
While high-frame-rateDestiny 2sounds like a dream on consoles (unless you were hoping to move onto bigger, better, newer things on Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5), what about the particulars?
Will next-gen early adopters be able to play with their fireteam if they’re still on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One? Will the load times be better, and if so, by how much? Dare I broach the subject ofDestiny 3?
We don’t know the scope of the presumed visual and performance improvements, or how currentDestiny 2accounts will pass the torch to next-gen consoles, or realistically when any of this will happen.
Broadly speaking, it’s clear that backward compatibility is (thankfully!) a focal point for Microsoft, to say nothing of itsSmart Delivery“buy a game once and you’re good” philosophy for Xbox Series X. For its part,Sony believesthe “overwhelming majority of the 4,000+ PS4 titles will be playable on PS5.”
Still, there’s so much room for speculation – not just related toDestiny 2, but all of the popular ongoing service games that people will expect to work from day one on Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5.
I’m as excited about new consoles as anyone else with a noisy PS4 that’s somehow still hanging in there, but the next-gen ramp-up has felt so coy so far. I get that everyone’s hesitant to show their stuff, especially first-party initiatives. I get that we’re dealing with a pandemic. I also realize that it’s only May, so there’s plenty of time. That said, the sooner we have clarity on the basics, the better we’ll feel.
It’s cool thatDestiny 2will be supported, but if we’re bound to hear a bunch of vague piecemeal confirmations like this over the next few months, that’s going to become grating in no time at all. Hopefully it works out fine. Hopefully most next-gen upgrades won’t be messy likeMadden NFL 21.
