Epic Games' Tim Sweeney and Kim Libreri recently took part in an interview with GameSpot for the company's Play For All event, and talked more about Unreal Engine 5 and Xbox Series X.
Last month, the company's jaw-dropping Unreal Engine 5 tech demo was officially unveiled, said to be running on PlayStation 5 hardware. In response to the supposed "conspiracy" theories surrounding the lack of talk about Xbox Series X at the time, CEO Tim Sweeney explained more about the reveal:
"The Nanite and the Lumen technology is built to run on next generation consoles and high-end PC - Xbox Series X, PlayStation 5, and at least the high-end NVIDIA and AMD CPUs, and support content that can scale down to all lower-end platforms. We were really closely partnered with Sony on that demo. We literally had been talking to them for, it must have been 3 or 4 or 5 years..."
"Sony and Microsoft's first-party developers are using Unreal Engine for projects. We've seen some ship, they're really awesome and more are coming in the future, but [the demo] was the culmination of a really awesome partnership that had been going on for a very long time."
In a follow-up, Epic Games CTO Kim Libreri also revealed a bit more about the "close relationship" the company has with various Xbox Game Studios teams, ultimately suggesting that all gamers will benefit in the next generation:
"We have a very close relationship with many of the Microsoft studios that are awesome Unreal Engine users, and I think the next generation is going to be amazing for all gamers regardless of what platform you want to choose. And our engine will run well on all of them."
What do you make of these comments? Looking forward to Unreal Engine 5? Let us know below.
[source gamespot.com]
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That whole thing was ridiculous anyways. It wasn’t even a real game that they showed. Who gets that excited over a 3rd party, non exclusive, tech demo for a graphics engine?
PlayStation fans, that’s who. 😂
maybe Gears 6 will already be released on unrial 5. with all new technologies and will show us in all its glory what is he capable of
Hmmm well that sort of confirms my thoughts on the demo... I feel like the demo bit Epic in the rear. It was a great feather in Sony’s cap, fantastic demo. However, I think many got nervous about how it would work on other systems. I read somewhere in some places new outlets were actually reporting it wouldn't work as well or would have to be downgraded even for PC. The news outlet wasn’t a native English speaking country so that may have led to the issue. Regardless, the fact that Epic has had to to restate this twice now means to me their “demo” was misinterpreted.
Edit: sorry didn’t mean to hit reply button.
@PretendWorking
“Butthurt”? Lol. What are you? 12? 🙄
@KelticDevil PS fans have been ridiculous, on the macro level. People need to calm down over tech demoes. Lol
@IronMan30
I agree.
@IronMan30 you can find ridiculousness in every fan base, most people aren't like that though
@redd214 that's true.
Every new gen tends to bring the worst on some fans. Its like they have an investment on making the competition look bad. I say, leave that to the console makers. I'm eventually getting both machines either way.
That aside, it was always silly to think Epic was demoing Unreal 5 as some sort of PS5 exclusive. The whole point of engines like it is they make multi-platform development easier, of course all those features would also support XBox and high end PC.
It’s was ok and just a demo
But is was good PR.
They did exactly the same with the PS4
Unreal engine demo
Let’s see what June and more so July
Reveals bring.
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