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Bungie: Destiny's graphics are different from platform to platform

No. but having dedicated servers helps with online gaming.



No, the question wasn't the differences between PS4 and Xbox One. Please, read the original interview.

Hasn't the PS3 had dedicated servers for most of it's online games all this gen? That won't change with the PS4 I hope.
 
Destiny looked pretty good, but it had some incredible lighting effects with that flashlight bot. I wonder if the XBone can handle that stuff.
 
Destiny looked pretty good, but it had some incredible lighting effects with that flashlight bot. I wonder if the XBone can handle that stuff.

Don't see why not. Have you seen Splinter Cell Blacklist coming to the 360? Lighting won't be as much a problem for the next-gen systems.
 
Anyone making a console game can run dedicated servers for the multiplayer. I don't know why this is such a confusing statement to you. That Sony likely won't provide dedicated servers as Microsoft are doing, doesn't mean that the games won't run on dedicated servers.

The technology available to Microsoft is available to Sony should they want to pursue it.

Should they want to.

I know that any game can have dedicated servers, what I mean is all Xbox One games will have dedicated servers, it is a advantage, like it or not.
 
All I know is those graphics at the Sony E3 presser were quite impressive, and if the rest of the game looks as good, that game is going to be raw business.
 
extracting current gen versions will be about equivalent and next gen versions will be about equivalent out of that quote is just as much as a reach as extrapolating that they're saying the PS4 version will be better then the Xbone out of it.

All the platforms will show differences. They just aren't ready to announce any specific features of any platform. Not of next gen platforms vs current gen. Not of next gen versions vs each other. Any version compared to any version.
 
I know that any game can have dedicated servers, what I mean is all Xbox One games will have dedicated servers, it is a advantage, like it or not.

it's only an advantage if it turns out not to be the case on PS4, which we have not heard confirmation of to my knowledge.

I don't expect to see all the PS4 titles run on dedicated servers, but I do expect to see a higher percentage of PS4 titles doing so than PS3 titles did.

Of course, it has nothing to do with graphics.
 
I know that any game can have dedicated servers, what I mean is all Xbox One games will have dedicated servers, it is a advantage, like it or not.

possibly. dedicated servers for ps3 games really didn't make any difference in terms of game performance vs. 360 titles that we're p2p, and dedicated servers run the risk of being turned off when the game is no longer profitable.

this was a big issue for Demons souls, but Sony has extended the life of that one indeterminately. it WAS scheduled to be turned off years ago, eliminating multiplayer.
 
possibly. dedicated servers for ps3 games really didn't make any difference in terms of game performance vs. 360 titles that we're p2p, and dedicated servers run the risk of being turned off when the game is no longer profitable.

this was a big issue for Demons souls, but Sony has extended the life of that one indeterminately. it WAS scheduled to be turned off years ago, eliminating multiplayer.

The dedicated servers on PS4 run by third party publishers?
 
The fact that it was presented on a PS4 at E3 and it seems like they always say "Destiny , which will be best experienced on PS4...." leads me to also believe that the obvious is true. The more powerful machine with gobs more ram capacity will run massive worlds better.

Bodes poorly for the bone since everything looks open world now

EDIT: I had no idea this was also going to be on PS360...that could explain it.
 
The words 'obviously' and 'all platforms', don't leave anything to the imagination here.

He's talking about PS3/360 and PS4/Xbox1 differences.

Because obviously, they're different generations. Way to pull those words out of context.
 
The words 'obviously' and 'all platforms', don't leave anything to the imagination here.

He's talking about PS3/360 and PS4/Xbox1 differences.

Because obviously, they're different generations. Way to pull those words out of context.

why isn't it also obvious that the PS4 and Xbone versions will show graphical differences? name me a AAA multiplatform game on 360 and PS3 that doesn't.

Saying all the platforms are going to be different doesn't leave anything to the imagination. You appear to have imagined that it means that two of the platforms are the same as each other, but different to two of the remaining platforms. And those two remaining platforms are the same as each other.
 
The words 'obviously' and 'all platforms', don't leave anything to the imagination here.

He's talking about PS3/360 and PS4/Xbox1 differences.

Because obviously, they're different generations. Way to pull those words out of context.
This.
 
not sure what you mean here.

Xbox One -> dedicated server on Azure (Microsoft)
PS4 -> ?

Current gen games, with dedicated servers, are "out" of PSN/XBL, and that dedicated server are from the publisher, not from the network service provider.

I don't think anyone in this thread was suggesting Wii to PS360 level of differences.

Reading some guys it looks like some people think something like that.
 
Xbox One -> dedicated server on Azure (Microsoft)
PS4 -> ?

Current gen games, with dedicated servers, are "out" of PSN/XBL, and that dedicated server are from the publisher, not from the network service provider.

still not following you. you are still baselessly speculating about Sony's servers. while seemingly getting annoyed at people baselessly speculating about graphical differences between the PS4 and Xbone.

it is slightly confusing to me.
 
why isn't it also obvious that the PS4 and Xbone versions will show graphical differences? name me a AAA multiplatform game on 360 and PS3 that doesn't.

Saying all the platforms are going to be different doesn't leave anything to the imagination. You appear to have imagined that it means that two of the platforms are the same as each other, but different to two of the remaining platforms. And those two remaining platforms are the same as each other.

Because inside their own generations they're going to be minimal differences, not obvious differences.
If a game looks a lot better than it does on the competing console, it doesn't just look bad for the console manufacturer. It also looks bad for the developers of the game.
For that issue alone they're not going to be allowing huge differences between consoles graphic wise.
 
still not following you. you are still baselessly speculating about Sony's servers. while seemingly getting annoyed at people baselessly speculating about graphical differences between the PS4 and Xbone.

it is slightly confusing to me.

I'm not assuming or speculating anything, I'm asking if PS4 dedicated servers are Sony servers or third party servers. Nothing more.
 
Because inside their own generations they're going to be minimal differences, not obvious differences.
If a game looks a lot better than it does on the competing console, it doesn't just look bad for the console manufacturer. It also looks bad for the developers of the game.
For that issue alone they're not going to allowing huge differences between consoles graphic wise.

"The graphics are different, obviously, platform to platform, but in a connected world, the game of Destiny is going to be awesome on all of them."

you seem to read this as if it says:

"Their are obvious differences between the graphics, platform to platform, but in a connected world, the game of Destiny is going to be awesome on all of them."

the differences are not being called 'obvious'. Bungie are saying it is obvious that there are differences.

they are also not saying:

"The graphics are different, obviously, generation to generation, but in a connected world, the game of Destiny is going to be awesome on all of them."

the graphics are different platform to platform, means the graphics are different on different platforms. and of course they are, because that is always the case. IE it is obvious that they would be different.

hopefully that makes it easier to parse for you.
 
For some reason I think this game will underperform.

You mean in sales? If so, I disagree.

Reading some guys it looks like some people think something like that.

I don't think so, but it's not a small amount, the differences should be easily noticeable if a little bit of effort is put in (and that is assuming Xbone gets the luxury of being the primary platform, which depends on how well the Xbone does in the long run).
 
Xbox one and the cloud. I have a 10 mbits line which is like 1-1.1 mb/s. But something is wicked, because when I download something from Xbox live its like 300 % faster. I noticed this 1 year ago and after a lot of downloading on Xbox live the result is that is 300% faster. Any one else exeperince this? Or is it a good explanation, and yes I am 100% sure I have a 10mbits line.
 
"The graphics are different, obviously, platform to platform, but in a connected world, the game of Destiny is going to be awesome on all of them."

you seem to read this as if it says:

"Their are obvious differences between the graphics, platform to platform, but in a connected world, the game of Destiny is going to be awesome on all of them."

the differences are not being called 'obvious'. Bungie are saying it is obvious that there are differences.

they are also not saying:

"The graphics are different, obviously, generation to generation, but in a connected world, the game of Destiny is going to be awesome on all of them."

the graphics are different platform to platform, means the graphics are different on different platforms. and of course they are, because that is always the case. IE it is obvious that they would be different.

hopefully that makes it easier to parse for you.

We can pull this quote apart however we want to. Let's step away from that for a minute.

Imagine the developers for one of the titles throwing this piece of information up while they are partnered with both Sony and Microsoft.
How do you think they would appreciate that? The guys answering these questions are smart enough not to throw that kind of information around.

Big or small differences aside, people are reading too much into this quote. It's still a quote that's been put up by someone that also interpreted what the man in question said.
Hopefully that makes it easier to parse for you... pffft
 
Wow, I just learned that this was also a PS360 title and that explains that comment, though based on the tag line "best experienced on PS4" still leads me to my old conclusion as well.

And, the fact that this is a cross generational game kinda makes me less excited about it, like there is some concession in size or scope made to the older platform. We'll see
 
The words 'obviously' and 'all platforms', don't leave anything to the imagination here.

He's talking about PS3/360 and PS4/Xbox1 differences.

Because obviously, they're different generations. Way to pull those words out of context.

This. I don't see how anybody can make this into a PS4 vs Xbone thing...
 
We can pull this quote apart however we want to. Let's step away from that for a minute.

Imagine the developers for one of the titles throwing this piece of information up while they are partnered with both Sony and Microsoft.
How do you think they would appreciate that? The guys answering these questions are smart enough not to throw that kind of information around.

Big or small differences aside, people are reading too much into this quote. It's still a quote that's been put up by someone that also interpreted what the man in question said.
Hopefully that makes it easier to parse for you... pffft

they only said that they would be different. they didn't say how. the point of the whole answer was basically 'whatever the graphical differences platform to platform, we think people are going to love this game whatever system they get it on'. that's about as diplomatic an answer as you can give.

no developer will come out and say 'oh yes, version X looks terrible compared to version Y'. that's why Digital Foundry et al exists, since so many developers and publishers told us PS3 and 360 versions were identical when they fucking weren't.
 
Digital Foundry is gonna have a fucking field day

They should have two sections for each console. One that describes performance when plugged into the internet and another for when the console is offline. Just so we can see if there are any performance differences.
 
Xbox one and the cloud. I have a 10 mbits line which is like 1-1.1 mb/s. But something is wicked, because when I download something from Xbox live its like 300 % faster. I noticed this 1 year ago and after a lot of downloading on Xbox live the result is that is 300% faster. Any one else exeperince this? Or is it a good explanation, and yes I am 100% sure I have a 10mbits line.

Wat.
 
It has begun. Stated by none other than Bungie, dare i say?

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I guess Activision is not like EA cutting down servers.

Im not sure have they released any games on consoles which used dedicated servers.
But im pretty sure its in bungie contract that activision provides a server back end for atleast x amount of years. So i dont expect them to have servers running 20 years from now.
 
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