I’ve always warned gamers about upcoming titles that are cross-generational. Why? Because you get gypped in cross-gen games, especially if you’re getting the Xbox One or PS4 versions. Well, Bungie’s own team admitted as much during a near two-hour stream discussing the Cosmodrome.

PSU picked up the story from Gamespresso, where lead artist Rob Adams and Bungie’s Deej stated, in regards to the Cosmodrome…

“Another thing that this space does, is it separates the Divide from the Steppes. So the Steppes and the Divide are both really really big areas, and when we shipped on the PS3 and Xbox 360, there was no way that we could get those two areas to be adjacent to each other, because of memory constraints. So, one of the reasons we did this was to actually provide a technical memory buffer between those two spaces.”

The RAM limitations of the Xbox 360 and PS3 have been technical ceilings limiting developers since as far back as 2010. Realistically, the Xbox 360 should have been replaced back in 2010 or 2011 on the standard five-year cycle, but Microsoft wanted to milk the console for more than what it was worth due to the Red Rings of Death, and well… now we’re well into 2015 and eighth-gen consoles are still about a generation behind current software capabilities.

Anyway, it was later stated, in regards to frame-rate optimization…

“What we’re doing is, we’re culling out and removing geometry behind that stuff, so that in any one view you never see too many things, and so the frame rate doesn’t drop.”

Commenters on the YouTube page weren’t happy about this at all, and the ratings kind of show it.

Richard Montes wrote…

“Destiny 2 can not be on last gen systems. I feel the game was greatly held back by decade old hardware.”

Well said Mr. Montes.

This isn’t to say that Destiny would be some great fantastic, super-amazing, awesome-superb masterpiece if it were only on the Xbox One and PS4, but it is to say that it would likely have been a heck of a lot better by not being on the decade old hardware.

If you want to see the video stream featuring the Bungie duo, you can check it out below.

Destiny is available right now for the old-gen systems and the new-gen systems. Unfortunately, you’re not going to get much of a playability difference between both generations of home consoles. If it were on PC at least there would be some mods to create separation… oh well.