A lot of fans have decided that they are playing Destiny 2: The Final Shape no matter what. But there’s a big roadblock that’s already appeared.
As reported by Dexerto, playing this final DLC is going to require players to free up a lot of space, and that’s true for all platforms. These are the download sizes for each platform:
- PlayStation 4: 129.31 GB
- PlayStation 5: 143.81 GB
- Xbox One: 139.52 GB
- Xbox Series S/X: 165.82 GB
- Steam: 299.70 GB
- Epic Game Store: 279.66 GB
- Microsoft Store: 156.22 GB
The download sizes for Steam and Epic Game Store are nearly twice as big, and there’s a strange reason for that. Because of the way the game was built on these platforms, it will have to install itself twice, and then delete half of itself afterwards. After the fact, these versions will go down to 155 GB. And yes, this is not an issue on other platforms, including the Microsoft Store version on Windows.
Destiny 2: The Final Shape will release on June 4, 2024, so preloads being a day before, which would be today. Bungie will have the servers go offline for 24 hours for maintenance, giving all players sufficient time to download before launch. Preloads begin at 10 AM PT.
Fans may be right to complain about these really unreasonable download sizes, but if all the rumors we had heard are true, Bungie really wasn’t in a position to fix the issue. We were told that Destiny 2: The Final Shape was going to be a huge game anyway, so no one should be surprised about this either. It may turn out that most gamers won’t really finish playing through what Bungie was able to build this whole time until a month or two from now.
As you may know, there is a lot riding on Bungie’s immediate and long term future with the success of Destiny 2: The Final Shape. The word going around is that the situation behind the scenes at Bungie has become serious enough that Sony may take over the company if things turn south.
For what it’s worth, Sony’s last official statement was PlayStation Studio Business Group CEO Hermen Hulst claiming that they have made a lot of great progress in integrating Bungie into their division. If we only go by this, than things are going fine for Sony and Bungie. One can interpret this, of course, as Sony making preparations to replace Bungie’s current management.
For now, we do look forward to Destiny 2: The Final Shape‘s launch, and hope the studio was able to deliver on the resolution fans are looking for.
