Bungie fans knew that more news about the shooting game series Destiny was incoming this week, and a major nugget of that news landed a day earlier than expected—there may be an official plan to bid the last generation of gaming consoles farewell.
A Wednesday update to the game's British website loosed the name of the next Destiny expansion—Rise of Iron—along with its September 20 launch date. Clicking the promotional box for that news, which has a picture of an armor-clad hero wielding a flaming hammer (because, you know, video games) loads an outdated trailer for 2015's Taken King expansion, which leads us to believe that this information was accidentally posted ahead of a planned Thursday reveal via the game's official Twitch channel. In fact, as this article was going to press, the image was removed. A saved screenshot is posted above.
In addition, the promotional text box says the expansion will launch "for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One," which could mean one of two things: that the last generation of Destiny is officially over or that its release schedule has been deprioritized to get current-gen console owners their updates first. Last-gen Destiny players are still getting updates to the game at the same speed as current-gen players, but Bungie hasn't been shy about recommending that players make the next-gen jump at some point. In particular, last year's expansion forced such large memory requirements for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 (whose most popular SKUs don't have giant hard drives) that Bungie made it a point to tell players how to transfer their progress and stats to new systems.
We'll hopefully get more clarification when Bungie takes to its Twitch stream tomorrow, June 9, at 1pm EDT (6pm BST).
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