Last night, Epic showed a demonstration of "Unreal Engine 5" technology running on Playstation 5 and said the new technology would have a huge impact on game development. Tim Sweeney, the CEO of Epic, praised Sony's Playstation 5 hardware in several interviews.
Demo shows two key technologies of UE5: one is Nanite, which can easily use a large number of polygons in the picture; the other is lumen, which can produce real-time global illumination effect. Moreover, the video actually comes directly from the HDMI signal of the Playstation 5 developer. The company said the demo was completely playable and would vary slightly each time it was played again.
"Sony's storage system is absolutely world-class. It's not only the best of its kind in the field of game consoles, but also the best of its kind (Playstation 5) on any platform - better than high-end PCs," Tim Sweeney said in an interview with Geoff Keighley. This will achieve the kind of immersion we could only imagine in the past. The era of loading interfaces is over. It's the end of the day when you pop in and out of the game. The result is to be able to create games that are completely immersive throughout hundreds of hours of play. "
Sweeney also told the verge that the built-in SSD, combined with the design of Playstation 5 architecture, makes its high-end performance more stable and reliable than PC, which is not based on SSD. He also said that the Xbox Series X may be able to provide similar performance with built-in SSDs, but Epic works more closely with Sony. At the same time, the company will be very careful to avoid taking sides.
Sweeney said: "we love all of our children, and we can't compare or pick our favorite. The Nanite technology we're showing here will run on all next-generation platforms and PCs, and most importantly, it's possible on the absolutely best hardware by the end of this year. "
In an interview with USG, Sweeney said Sony was a "pioneer" in Playstation 5's storage solutions, providing software developers with tools to make next-generation details possible.
In an interview with digital foundry, Sweeney further praised Playstation 5's architecture: "it has a god tier storage system, far beyond PC." This was even before "you got a great ue5 performance on a high-end PC with an NVME SSD." "Magic" is reflected in the speed leap of SSD Technology: Xbox Series X is 2.5 GB / s, equivalent to NVME on current PC, while Playstation 5 is 5.5 GB/s.
Epic also announced that fortress night will be transferred to "Unreal Engine 5" by mid-2021. Before that, it will appear on both Xbox series X and Playstation 5 as a first escort game.
However, this technological leap is still far away for ordinary players. First, as John Linneman of digital foundry said, "there is no hard disk that meets the speed requirements of Playstation 5 on the market, so don't buy one in advance." This may also be part of the reason why the report points out that Playstation 5 has high manufacturing cost and limited initial production. Second, the Unreal Engine 5 will only provide a preview version for other developers at the beginning of next year, which means that large-scale games developed entirely using these technologies will not appear in a year or two.
Demo shows two key technologies of UE5: one is Nanite, which can easily use a large number of polygons in the picture; the other is lumen, which can produce real-time global illumination effect. Moreover, the video actually comes directly from the HDMI signal of the Playstation 5 developer. The company said the demo was completely playable and would vary slightly each time it was played again.
"Sony's storage system is absolutely world-class. It's not only the best of its kind in the field of game consoles, but also the best of its kind (Playstation 5) on any platform - better than high-end PCs," Tim Sweeney said in an interview with Geoff Keighley. This will achieve the kind of immersion we could only imagine in the past. The era of loading interfaces is over. It's the end of the day when you pop in and out of the game. The result is to be able to create games that are completely immersive throughout hundreds of hours of play. "
Sweeney also told the verge that the built-in SSD, combined with the design of Playstation 5 architecture, makes its high-end performance more stable and reliable than PC, which is not based on SSD. He also said that the Xbox Series X may be able to provide similar performance with built-in SSDs, but Epic works more closely with Sony. At the same time, the company will be very careful to avoid taking sides.
Sweeney said: "we love all of our children, and we can't compare or pick our favorite. The Nanite technology we're showing here will run on all next-generation platforms and PCs, and most importantly, it's possible on the absolutely best hardware by the end of this year. "
In an interview with USG, Sweeney said Sony was a "pioneer" in Playstation 5's storage solutions, providing software developers with tools to make next-generation details possible.
In an interview with digital foundry, Sweeney further praised Playstation 5's architecture: "it has a god tier storage system, far beyond PC." This was even before "you got a great ue5 performance on a high-end PC with an NVME SSD." "Magic" is reflected in the speed leap of SSD Technology: Xbox Series X is 2.5 GB / s, equivalent to NVME on current PC, while Playstation 5 is 5.5 GB/s.
Epic also announced that fortress night will be transferred to "Unreal Engine 5" by mid-2021. Before that, it will appear on both Xbox series X and Playstation 5 as a first escort game.
However, this technological leap is still far away for ordinary players. First, as John Linneman of digital foundry said, "there is no hard disk that meets the speed requirements of Playstation 5 on the market, so don't buy one in advance." This may also be part of the reason why the report points out that Playstation 5 has high manufacturing cost and limited initial production. Second, the Unreal Engine 5 will only provide a preview version for other developers at the beginning of next year, which means that large-scale games developed entirely using these technologies will not appear in a year or two.
