Destiny Beta Coming in July

[Vigormortis]

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Excuse my ignorance but I thought that since the xbox one and PS4 are pretty much mid-range PCs, having games released for PC and consoles shouldn't be a problem (well given some changes). Or am I completely incorrect ?

Not even remotely. The PS4 and the Xbox One are built on x86 architectures. The same architecture as most PCs.

Coupled with the robust array of design and porting tools developers now have at their disposal, there is no reason porting to the PC would be "too much work".

 

[Elijin]

I enjoy vigor ignored the key part of why it wouldnt just be that easy, the bug testing.

In fact him ignoring it kind of removes my need to rebut any of his points. He's willfully ignoring that bug testing on PC is a nightmare due to the many different individual components and respective drivers, plus existing software, creating a constant and interesting stream of 'Oh well we never considered that, I mean why would people be using that certain driver with this piece of software, while having that hardware and dammmmit.'

Creating? Yes. Testing? No.

And if you've looked around the last few years, you know the biggest baddest thing you can do as a game developer currently? Have a bug filled launch day. (And to a lesser extent, have an online launch day, because the servers wont take the strain, you will have heaps of downtime, and everyone will hate you)

 

[Shadow-Phoenix]

I enjoy vigor ignored the key part of why it wouldnt just be that easy, the bug testing.

In fact him ignoring it kind of removes my need to rebut any of his points. He's willfully ignoring that bug testing on PC is a nightmare due to the many different individual components and respective drivers, plus existing software, creating a constant and interesting stream of 'Oh well we never considered that, I mean why would people be using that certain driver with this piece of software, while having that hardware and dammmmit.'

This is a lesson I recently learned with other users on here, if they don't get a reply to a self made argument, chances are I've ignored them since I've got better things to do, which somehow in forum speak to some means they've "won" the argument they speak of.

I'm also very sure about your assumption about PC gamers being dicks once they get the game, I guarantee there will be a mixture of shitting on the consoles for "beta" testing along with "the best definitive ultimate super" version and a dab of millions of bugs, it honestly doesn't surprise me these days any more on here or when I see the usual reaction to something not going on PC, when something doesn't come on console those same angry people are quick to make up a myriad of excuses as to why it's not happening on a console along with why it doesn't "deserve", then there will be 0 excuse for their own side which just shows pointless bias and a means for no discussion.