Activision nous annonce des détails fort croustillant puisque nous apprenons à quelle date pourrait sortir la PS4 et la xbox 720 ou Xbox 8, l’éditeur divulgue ces informations grâce à un contrat établit avec Microsoft et Sony qui prévoit un saut générationnel et donc une date de sortie pour la xbox 720 entre 2013 et 2015 alors que pour la playstation 4 sa sortie serait prévue pour 2016.

Le contrat établi en 2010 prévoyait un tel changement dans ces périodes là, cela permettait aux éditeurs Activision et Bungie d’anticiper les sorties des futures extensions des jeux phares de la firme.

En ce qui concerne les détails du document juridique, voici ce qu'il mentionne: un jeu appelé "Destiny Games #1" prévu au lancement de la Xbox 720 à l'automne 2013 et également compatible avec la XBOX 360, puis le document passe à un jeu PS4 nommé "Comet #1", qui est réglé à une date de sortie pour 2014, avec une version pour la PS3 (cela pourrait signifier PS4 même en 2014?) et "Comète # 2" pour la PS4, mais simplement parce que ce projet est inscrit pour 2016, cette date de sortie ne signifie pas nécessairement que Sony va attendre jusqu'à cette échéance pour commercialiser sa prochaine console.


Informations provenant du forum NeoGaf :



-Massively multiplayer style, sci-fantasy action shooter series codenamed Destiny with expansion packs codenamed Comet.

-Four games releasing in 2013, 2015, 2017, and 2019.

-Four expansion packs releasing in 2014, 2016, 2018, and 2020.

-The main games will be retail.

-There will be other DLC, subscriptions, microtransactions, and value added services.

-The first game will be an Xbox 360 and “Xbox 720″ timed exclusive.

-Activision and Bungie are considering a PS3 version of the first game in 2014.

-The second game is targeted for 360, 720, PS4, and Windows PC, though the contract notes that some of
those SKUs may be dropped if they decide they are not worthwhile or not technically feasible.

-Activision can terminate the contract without penalty if Destiny doesn’t sell at least 5 million units in the first six months, or for any reason they please after the second expansion pack releases.

-Bungie is also working on a Marathon game, but currently no more than 5% of their staff (nor more than 5% of their key staff) can work on it, and the amount of employees that can work on it goes up slowly as they hit cumulative profit goals. There are also limits on when Bungie can release Marathon. For specifics on this see the contract images at the bottom since it’s pretty lengthy.

-The game is targeting a rating of Teen/PEGI 16, but Bungie is not contractually held to hit this mark.

-The contract implies the game has in-game game masters, like those people who work for Blizzard and handle user requests in World of Warcraft while playing some kind of digital representation in the MMO world (or at least being accessible through in game chat).

-Bungie will receive a $2.5 million bonus if Destiny achieves a GameRankings.com rating of 90 or higher on Xbox 360 as measured 30 days after release.

-Bungie will also get a 20% royalty of the first $100 million in cumulative operating income, 24% on the income between $101-$400 million, and 35% on the income $401 million or above. These royalties are subject to a penalty of 2%, 2.4%, and 3.5% respectively if the games are delayed for reasons caused by Bungie within reason (i.e. if an earthquake destroys their studio they’re not at fault, but if they just don’t get the game done on time they are). These last two bullet points I’m leaving in the contract itself to cut down on OP length.