Here's why it won't happen with Destiny: (Gaming)

by Kermit , Raleigh, NC, Monday, March 14, 2016, 16:54 (3179 days ago) @ stabbim

Yeah, I'm not really expecting that, certainly not with the current game anyway. Aside from the issues you mentioned, there's also simple (conceptually, anyway) things like UI. How to handle things like sending a game invite to a PS4 player from an XBone, for example. If the game had been built from the ground up with those scenarios in mind, it might be doable. But I'm sure in the current code, there's just no facility to deal with it. IF it ever happens at all, at a minimum I would not expect it until such time as there is a "new" Destiny game, meaning not an update/expansion to the current code.

Unless I'm wrong and Bungie actually built the game with this in mind from the beginning and just needs to flip a few metaphorical switches. But that's probably not the case. I haven't been wrong since 2005. :P

I think the game was built as much as possible to be platform independent to save work. You point out what would probably be a sticking point but at the same time, I could see platform-specific hooks being the topmost layer of code, if that makes sense.