Clarification needed (Destiny)

by uberfoop , Seattle-ish, Friday, December 06, 2013, 20:30 (4011 days ago) @ breitzen

Ok so someone smarter than me need to explain this... But it sounds like cross platform play is possible? The whole one world thing. Sure you could restrict it based on console but that's certainly not what he makes it sound like. I mean if it's all done over servers couldn't it be possible?

It sounds like the servers are handling matching, but the individual game instances are still hosted by consoles.

Not like that matters. Limitations to cross-manufacturer play have more or less never been about whether it would be technically possible for the hardware to communicate. The only reason your PS3 can't communicate with your 360 is that the manufacturers and devs don't tell them to communicate.

Cross-platform play can be a little difficult in that different versions of the game sometimes run differenly in ways that make networking hard (especially if you don't plan for it from the start), but the hard barrier is mostly political.