Zekkyou on 18 July 2014
No it's not next gen, it's cross gen (we already have a name for it!). In my mind they're essentially gen 7.5 titles.
Destiny is still a great looking game, and one of the largest cross gen differences we've seen, but ultimately it's still had to confine itself to what can be linearly scaled down to the previous gen. As you said, the PS3 version is functionally identical.
For some reason that doesn't stop people trying to use cross gen titles as proof of the "small gen jump". They should really see how flawed that argument is when the jump between AC4 to ACU or Ghost to AW is larger than the difference between the cross gen versions of the original title 
