Bungie confirmed in last week's big Shadowkeep announcement that cross-save—the ability to carry one player account across multiple platforms—is coming to Destiny 2. Yesterday, Destiny general manager Mark Noseworthy said that Bungie is also very interested in implementing cross-play—enabling people on different platforms to actually play together—but that's something for further down the road.Â
"Stadia as a platform doesn’t make implementing Cross Play any harder actually," Noseworthy tweeted in response to Kotaku journalist Jason Schreier's statement, based on a prior interview, that the coming move to Stadia would make cross-play "tougher."
"We’re focused on Cross Save this year (for all platforms). Cross Play is absolutely something we’re interested in doing some day, but we have a lot on our plate to chew through first!"Â
That obviously includes making cross-save a reality, but also the transition to free-to-play, a move from Battlenet to Steam and Stadia, and of course the release of the Shadowkeep expansion, which is a big deal all on its own. There's a lot going on, and there's also uncertainty about the post-Shadowkeep future to deal with: Franchise director Luke Smith told Kotaku in a new interview that it's difficult to predict what will happen in 2020 because so much is changing in 2019. Â Â
"So we’re taking another stab at learning this year, and the thing I’ve said to Mark a bunch is, we’re trying to make predictions right now about what’s going to happen, and in October we’ll have much better information than we have," Smith said.Â
Destiny 2: Shadowkeep is scheduled for release on September 17.