"Incredible work": Xbox executives extremely impressed with the demonstration of Unreal Engine 5 on PS5

Yesterday, Epic Games talked about the key features of Unreal Engine 5 and showed an impressive tech demo of Lumen in the Land of Nanite on PlayStation 5. The engine has not yet been demonstrated on Xbox Series X, but Xbox executives - division head Phil Spencer and CMO Aaron Greenberg - responded very positively about what they saw .

"Incredible work by the Unreal Engine development team at Epic Games," Spencer wrote in Twitter. - Unreal is used by many Xbox Game Studios teams, including Ninja Theory, which is currently preparing Senua's Saga: Hellblade II. They look forward to bringing the innovations of Unreal Engine 5 to Xbox Series X."

The Epic Games engine is used by almost all internal Xbox studios. On the basis of the fourth generation of the engine, Gears of War 4, Gears 5 и Gears Tactics (The Coalition) State of Decay 2 (Undead Labs), We Happy Few (Compulsion Games), Sea of ​​Thieves (Rare) Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, as well as Minecraft Dungeons (Mojang), which will be released on May 26th. Currently, not only Senua's Saga: Hellblade II, but also Psychonauts 2 (Double Fine Productions) are being developed on the Unreal Engine, Everwild and other projects. These are rumored to include unannounced games from The Initiative (perhaps, it will be a restart of Perfect Dark) and Playground Games (authors of Forza Horizon).

"Very impressive, - confessed Greenberg, responding to Spencer's post. “I can imagine what Unreal Engine 5 will look like on the most powerful console in the world.”

Microsoft touts Xbox Series X as 'world's most powerful console' based on performance comparison: it outperforms PlayStation 5 about two or three teraflops. However, things can get more complicated.

After the demo, Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney stressedthat for instant visualization of the game world with a data volume of several tens of gigabytes, an SSD is critical. According to him, Epic Games has been working closely with Sony for a long time on the SSD, and it is "far superior to anything you can buy now for PC at any price." The PC market, he is sure, will have to catch up with the development of Sony, and the PlayStation 5 will help with this.

The Xbox Series X also uses a high-speed SSD of its own production, and Sweeney does not claim that the Microsoft console cannot achieve the same result. However, he made it clear that Epic Games prioritizes cooperation with Sony.

Epic Games has confirmed that Unreal Engine 5 will support PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, Nintendo Switch, PC, and Android and iOS mobile devices. A preview version of the engine will be available to developers in early 2021.

Source: 3dnews.ru