‘Destiny’ PC Port Hasn’t Been Ruled Out, Bungie Says

During the big Xbox One reveal we found out that Destiny, Bungie’s all-new shooter franchise, is also coming to Microsoft’s latest console, and that wasn’t exactly a big surprise. What is somewhat of a surprise, however, is that a PC version of Destiny hasn’t been ruled out.

In an interview with IGN, Bungie senior writer Eric Osborne confirmed that the studio is at least considering the possibility, although nothing is set in stone as of yet.

“We haven’t said yes, and we haven’t said no,” Osborne told the site. “The more platforms we take on, the more work it ultimately becomes, and what we don’t want is to compromise the core experience on any platforms. We have a lot of people who play on PCs. We have a lot of appetite to build that experience. We haven’t announced it yet, but we’re looking forward to talking more about that kind of stuff in the future.”

It’s not the confirmation that the PC crowd may have wanted, of course, but it does give some amount of hope. Considering that Bungie themselves have had little involvement with computer gaming for the past decade – Halo and Halo 2‘s PC ports were outsourced – it would certainly be exciting for many to see the developer make a return home.

Should a PC port of Destiny actually happen, there exists the possibility that you may be able to transfer your characters across platforms. When asked if players will be able to transfer save data from, say, Xbox 360 to Xbox One, Osborne had this to say:

“For us, [platforms] are purely agnostic,” he said. “Any data on our back-end servers and services, like Bungie.net, are ours. We control it, we can do a bunch of fun stuff on that side. So for us, we want to absolutely do the right things for players. But there are some complexities we have to solve that are outside our control. But we’re absolutely pushing to solve some of those things. We don’t have anything to announce, but hopefully in the future we will.”

Destiny has been confirmed for release on PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, and Xbox One. The developer still hasn’t given a release date, but debut gameplay footage will be shown off during Sony’s E3 press conference.

For now, you can check out the game’s recently-released trailer:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=jS1BM9XRgvw