If platform holder Sony was sitting around a roulette wheel, it would have placed all of its chips on Activision’s first-person shooter Destiny. The manufacturer has been promoting Bungie’s ambitious escapade as if it were an exclusive, and the company expects the title – alongside the likes of The Last of Us: Remastered, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, FIFA 15, and Far Cry 4 – to be the PlayStation 4’s biggest system seller this Christmas.
“If I had to pick one, it’d probably be Destiny,” explained SCEE boss Jim Ryan in an interview with CVG. “We’re partnered up with Activision on that. The intensity and depth that the two organisations are working at is something that I’ve never seen before. Both really want to make this work in a really serious way.”
He continued: “The game is obviously multiformat, so it will be out on the Xbox One and the Xbox 360, as it will be on the PlayStation 3. But I think, certainly in our eyes, the main prize is the PS4 version of the game. We want to make that absolutely enormous.”
And the firm’s certainly going the right way about it. During its E3 2014 press conference earlier this week, the company announced a ‘Glacier White’ hardware bundle, which will include a limited edition console and a copy of the game. Moreover, the title’s set to get an exclusive alpha on Sony’s next-gen machine, while additional content will be included in the PlayStation version, which you won’t be able to play anywhere else. The big question is, though: will the game be good enough?
[source computerandvideogames.com, via vg247.com]
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Well, it does come in a very cool Glacier White PS4 bundle.
If it reviews well and gets marketed right it could move some systems off shelves.
It could and should do extremely well. I have feeling farcry 4 will end up game of the year though.
It's clearly going to be huge, and just like Watch Dogs, Sony's best placed to have the best selling version on PS4. To be honest, I think he's probably right, though I agree that it will be the cumulative impact of many games that will propel the platform best.
@LDXD
It does indeed.
I agree with Sony, I think it will be the top game this year! As for that Destiny bundle, it does have my interest and I have been fighting between getting a Xbox One, or pre-ordering this bundle and getting a PS4.
Btw, am I the only one that thought it weird/ funny that Bungie seemed to be big partners with Sony now, while Insomniac seems to be big partners with Microsoft? Just saying, it felt unnatural lol
@hydeks
It's interesting for sure but Detiny is on Xbox and I believe Insomniac is doing the Ratchet and Clank PS4 remake.
Got my alpha code, will be trying this out later!
Due to lack of making new topics, I want to say cos I have now received my Alpha code for Destiny, so I will be playing it over the weekend. If there's any questions you want to ask regarding the game then I'll try and answer as best as I can once I've spent a decent amount of time with it.
I had no idea Activision was publishing this.
I cant wait to play this. I think it will take over my online time from COD. Really looking forward to it.
Finally got my beta code but its taking so long to download saying 53 hours left, so I won't get to play it for awhile. And that white PS4 bundle will sell like crazy, it will be a collectors item.
I got an Alpha code too!! If we can play with each other and you want someone to play with add me, TGraves82.
you can guarantee it.
you can guarantee it.
@adf86
Be sure to post your impressions on the thread, I'll be checking frequently to see what people have to say. Looking forward to reading your thoughts on the game.
@Gamer83 Will do mate.
@Gamer83 I've put a few hours into it now. It looks great (not mind blowing but great) the guns have a good punchy feel to them but the missions I've got so far feel rather repetitive (go here shoot something etc) of course It's only alpha though. But the impression so far is Borderlands meets Mass Effect with Halo's gunplay. I'm going to do a vid for my youtube channel so I can go into more detail.
I want it to be mindblowing, after all this hype I doubt it will be up to expectations though. It should look great to boot, its ps4, i will certainly be judging on that. My standards set on this will be if its really next gen or not, cause most games on ps4 look like polished ps3 games. I have yet to have my mind blown by graphics.....
But it's multi-platform. It will sell XBOX too...
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