Most content material constructed throughout a specific {hardware} technology is offered and purposeful throughout that {hardware} technology as a result of issues don’t change an excessive amount of. Every time we’ve a serious {hardware} generational shift, it’s typically practically an extinction-level occasion as a result of builders should improve our {hardware} and our software program to match and exceed the brand new degree of efficiency. The sport and workflow should even be up to date to work on the brand new {hardware}, and internally upgraded to reap the benefits of the elevated processing energy to look and play higher than earlier than. The method of constructing these inside upgrades and modifications has a really excessive likelihood of breaking outdated stuff until important effort is spent on bringing the outdated content material updated (which is normally decrease precedence since most gamers don’t return to outdated content material like that fairly often).
Purple Struggle was launch content material again in 2017, on the Xbone, PS4, and Home windows. We’ve had a {hardware} generational shift since then (PS4 > PS5), which meant that the possibilities of breakage of outdated stuff is excessive. I don’t work for Bungie, and I don’t have any particular perception into their decision-making course of. That is, after all, hypothesis on my half, based mostly on my expertise working within the business throughout {hardware} generational shifts. Bungie in all probability realized that a few of their outdated content material could be made out of date across the time they dedicated to the “Vault” idea. That’s what I think occurred.
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