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Bungie’s new four-title shooter series, codenamed Destiny, will be released on the Xbox 360 in 2013, according to the developer’s leaked contract with Activision.
The contract gives extra weight to the rumours of Bungie’s next game having MMO elements, with the contract stipulating that Destiny is planned to be a “massively-multiplayer-style (i.e., client-based mission structures with a persistent elements), sci-fantasy, action-shooter.”
Development will shift to the next Xbox upon its eventual release, and Destiny will also make its way to PS3/PS4 in 2014 if deemed viable “The parties also currently contemplate the development and commercial release of Destiny Game #1 for the PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system (“PS3″) in the Fall of 2014,” says the 27-page contract leaked by the LA Times, “subject to the parties hereto conducting a joint technical feasibility analysis that reasonably establishes to the parties’ mutual satisfaction that Destiny Game #1 is able to be developed for the PS3 at quality and feature parity to the Xbox 360 version.”
Four games in the series are planned, scheduled for 2013, 2015, 2017 and 2019. Four expansions, titled “Comet” are also planned for the other years – so 2014, 2016, 2018 and 2020, and the games will also see smaller updates in the form of regular DLC packs. The game will also feature micro-transactions, though the game will be sold traditionally in boxes – at least for the foreseeable future.
Activision is allowed to terminate the contract without penalty if the first Destiny doesn’t sell at least five million units within six months of release.
Bungie will also receive a $2.5m payout if the first game in the series hits an average of over 90 on Gamerankings.com.
The contract was signed in 2010, and particular terms may have changed since then.
Reacting to the leak, Bungie said “well, that just happened…”
“So, yeah. While we’re not ready to show you what we’ve been working on, we can reconfirm that we are hard at work on our new universe. We can’t wait for you to see it.”
“See you starside in 2013.”
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