--- title: Bungie's Destiny Beta Launches July 17 description: Xbox owners have to wait until the following week, and the everyone has until July to 27 to blast each others' faces off. canonical: https://time.com/2963126/destiny-beta-ps3-ps4-xbox/ author: Matt Peckham article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-07-07T17:34:05.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:02:42.909Z article:section: Business og:title: Bungie's Destiny Beta Launches July 17 og:description: Xbox owners have to wait until the following week, and the everyone has until July to 27 to blast each others' faces off. og:url: https://time.com/2963126/destiny-beta-ps3-ps4-xbox/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt19e11f93efc8cc64/69869abbcd684802bf0958cd/destiny.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: destiny og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Bungie's Destiny Beta Launches July 17 twitter:description: Xbox owners have to wait until the following week, and the everyone has until July to 27 to blast each others' faces off. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt19e11f93efc8cc64/69869abbcd684802bf0958cd/destiny.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # PlayStation Owners Can Hop Into Bungie's Destiny Beta on July 17 by [Matt Peckham](/author/matt-peckham/) ## Matt Peckham Jul 7, 2014 5:34 PM CUT  Bungie by [Matt Peckham](/author/matt-peckham/) ## Matt Peckham Jul 7, 2014 5:34 PM CUT Bungie’s official _Destiny_ beta has a date: July 17 at 10:00am PT. That’s a Thursday, so you might as well take Friday off and make a long weekend of it. Just pretend it’s Labor Day come early, or the Fourth of July come late. The catch is that it’s only available on the PlayStations 3 and 4 on July 17\. If you want to mess with it on the Xbox One or Xbox 360, you’ll have to wait slightly less than a week longer for those versions to drop: July 23 at 10:00am PT. To be fair, PlayStation owners won’t have it for a full week. According to Bungie, the beta will be offline on July 21 and 22 for “scheduled maintenance.” And then it’ll only run through July 27 at 11:59pm PT. When I spoke with Bungie at E3, my understanding was that they were planning multiple beta phases, so this probably won’t be the last chance you’ll have to play _Destiny_ before it launches on September 9. Activision’s using the beta announcement to highlight its collectible tiers, which I won’t bother detailing here (I dislike collectibles, mostly because companies often send them my way unasked for, stuffed with generally forgettable junk). Suffice to say, you can pay $60 for the base game, $90 for the “Guardian Edition,” $100 for the “Limited Edition” or $150 for the “Ghost Edition,” each with various physical or digital download additives — the full details are [here](http://investor.activision.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=857947 "undefined"). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2963126/destiny-beta-ps3-ps4-xbox/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2963126/destiny-beta-ps3-ps4-xbox/"},"headline":"PlayStation Owners Can Hop Into Bungie's Destiny Beta on July 17","datePublished":"2014-07-07T17:34:05.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:02:42.909Z","description":"Xbox owners have to wait until the following week, and the everyone has until July to 27 to blast each others' faces off.","url":"https://time.com/2963126/destiny-beta-ps3-ps4-xbox/","keywords":["Tech","Video Games","PlayStation 4","xbox 360","xbox One","Beta","destiny","bungie"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt19e11f93efc8cc64/69869abbcd684802bf0958cd/destiny.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Matt Peckham","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/matt-peckham/"}],"articleSection":"Business","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt19e11f93efc8cc64/69869abbcd684802bf0958cd/destiny.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"destiny","caption":"","creditText":"Bungie","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-tech/","name":"Tech"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2963126/destiny-beta-ps3-ps4-xbox/","name":"PlayStation Owners Can Hop Into Bungie's Destiny Beta on July 17"}}]}] ```