So why is Destiny 2’s PC version being held back?

PC players looking forward to Destiny 2’s fall release are probably going through a torrent of emotions this week. While it’s great that Bungie revealed solid dates for the sequel, it’s not hard to miss that the launch of the PC edition is being held back nearly two months after the console version. So what gives? Why the seven-week delay?

In talking with Polygon, Bungie said that it is being extra cautious in bringing the franchise to the PC for the first time and wanted to give that version some additional testing and polish. “We want to it to land super-solid,” said the team.

PC Lead Developer David Shaw went into more detail: “It really is as simple as ‘we want to get it right.’ That’s the reason there was no PC version of Destiny 1 is because we didn’t feel we could do it in a way that could honor the PC gamer [and] would really nail it. With Destiny 2, we had the team, we had the talent, we found great partners. One more extension of being able to do it right is that we needed that extra bit of time.”

The PC port of Destiny 2 is being handled by Albany-based Vicarious Visions, which Bungie sees an an “extended part of the dev team.” Beta testing for the PC is scheduled for August with the release on October 24th.