News Room Contributor Posts: 4435 Joined: 12 Nov 2002 | Unreal Engine 4 Not Just For Consoles
Despite fears to the contrary, Epic Games Vice President Mark Rein has said the company's Unreal Engine 4 will in fact run on PCs as well as the next generation of consoles.
Many gamers took earlier comments by Epic co-founder Tim Sweeney that the Unreal Engine 4 was being developed exclusively for the next generation of game consoles to mean the company was dropping, or at least seriously curtailing, support for the PC in its upcoming projects. But in an interview with CVG, Rein assured gamers that this is not the case at all, and that the PC figures prominently in Epic's plans for the future.
"What he meant was, it won't run on this generation of consoles, but people assumed what he meant was that it won't run on PCs. Hello - all game technology runs on PC, that's how you build it," Rein said. "Of course it'll be on PC. That should go without saying."
"But people took that as us abandoning PCs - and Tim said something about UE4 coming to consoles first. Unreal Engine 3 came out on consoles first - there's nothing new about that," he continued. "That's the way it works; the console guys were, in this generation, able to spend the money to put the really high-end parts out before they were even available on PC. Of course, the PC comes flying up behind and will have much better performance that consoles by the time the generation is over."
"You're able to buy a PC that's as powerful as the Xbox 360 long before the 360 generation is finished. So people, calm down. If we give conflicting views and say things that are negative, it's because we care about it and we want it to be strong, and we're going to work to make it strong," he said. "Relax, take a breath... PC gaming will be fine."
CVG's full interview with Epic's Mark Rein is available here.
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Beat Writer Posts: 147 Joined: 12 Feb 2008 | What is the point of this article? Some of the statements are just plain stupid.
"in this generation, able to spend the money to put the really high-end parts out before they were even available on PC."
This statement is not true in any way. You could get parts that outperformed the 360 at launch, they were expensive, but available.
"You're able to buy a PC that's as powerful as the Xbox 360 long before the 360 generation is finished."
You could buy parts that were more powerful than anything in the 360 or PS3 within months of the 360's release. Current mid-range parts blow away the consoles in performance. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1122 Joined: 13 Jan 2007 | ...
Even if the parts were very expensive, it didn't take much time, maybe a very few months, for said parts to reach acceptable prices.
Of course, computers are not as mass produced as consoles, so the story is different if you consider the price.
Otherwise, his comments are absurd. |
Paperboy Posts: 12 Joined: 22 Nov 2007 | Wow, really, I never would have expected an Unreal Engine to run on the PC! |
Paperboy Posts: 49 Joined: 14 Nov 2007 | How come? PCs have a lot more power than consoles, how can it NOT run on a PC? |
Paperboy Posts: 12 Joined: 22 Nov 2007 | ~~~~~~~~~~>whoosh>
corronchilejano:
This is my head.
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Paperboy Posts: 49 Joined: 14 Nov 2007 | Point taken. You stop reading between the lines after reading some stuff... |
Unreal Engine 4 Not Just For Consoles
Despite fears to the contrary, Epic Games Vice President Mark Rein has said the company's Unreal Engine 4 will in fact run on PCs as well as the next generation of consoles.
Many gamers took earlier comments by Epic co-founder Tim Sweeney that the Unreal Engine 4 was being developed exclusively for the next generation of game consoles to mean the company was dropping, or at least seriously curtailing, support for the PC in its upcoming projects. But in an interview with CVG, Rein assured gamers that this is not the case at all, and that the PC figures prominently in Epic's plans for the future.
"What he meant was, it won't run on this generation of consoles, but people assumed what he meant was that it won't run on PCs. Hello - all game technology runs on PC, that's how you build it," Rein said. "Of course it'll be on PC. That should go without saying."
"But people took that as us abandoning PCs - and Tim said something about UE4 coming to consoles first. Unreal Engine 3 came out on consoles first - there's nothing new about that," he continued. "That's the way it works; the console guys were, in this generation, able to spend the money to put the really high-end parts out before they were even available on PC. Of course, the PC comes flying up behind and will have much better performance that consoles by the time the generation is over."
"You're able to buy a PC that's as powerful as the Xbox 360 long before the 360 generation is finished. So people, calm down. If we give conflicting views and say things that are negative, it's because we care about it and we want it to be strong, and we're going to work to make it strong," he said. "Relax, take a breath... PC gaming will be fine."
CVG's full interview with Epic's Mark Rein is available here.
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