Destiny 2 Devs Explain Sci-fi Shooter's PC Launch Delay
Destiny 2 publisher Activision announced earlier this week that the PC version of the game will officially launch on October 24th, nearly two months after the game goes live on PS4 and Xbox One. Why the delay?
In an interview with Polygon, developers Vicarious Visions and Bungie said that the release date was pushed back because they wanted everything on point before the Destiny franchise made its debut on the PC.
Thomas Gawrys, Senior Software Engineer at Vicarious Visions explains:
“The honest truth is we want it to land super solid. We want to meet the expectations of PC gamers — they have expectations for what they want and we want to make sure we hit as many of those as we can.”
Bungie Technical Designer David Shaw shares the same sentiments:
“It really is as simple as ‘we want to get it right.' That’s the reason there was no PC version of Destiny 1 is because we didn’t feel we could do it in a way that could honor the PC gamer [and] would really nail it. With Destiny 2, we had the team, we had the talent, we found great partners in [Vicarious Visions]. One more extension of being able to do it right is that we needed that extra bit of time.”
Destiny 2 will enter Beta testing in August, which, according to Shaw, is “a true beta” and not a marketing ploy. The devs also released a new trailer for E3. Check it out after the break.
