| Play4Fun said:
It seem important to Epic that next gen hardware is super-powerful. It would ensure alot of demand for UE4 instead of devs just sticking with UE3 because it can do all they really need. They want to dominate next gen with an engine that others can't keep up with like they did this gen. They don't want guys like Crytek moving up the ladder even more. Also, Ipad isn't a threat to consoles hardware-wise or software -wise. |
there is no real business incentice to sell UE4 over UE3 as they sell it as a license and on a royalty bassed business model for indies, they are contracted to give developers updated engines, and they want indies and learing institutions to get their current tech. And super powerful hardware gives competitors like Crytech more chance to catch up not less as there will be far more room to inovate in the graphics tech with new hardware. Hell Crytech are pushing for more powerful consoles than Epic are, you should see their wishlist with "At least 8GB RAM" 3 GPUs and an 8 core CPU.
Unreal engine wasn't successful because it was the "most powerful" they were just the only ones agressively pushing licensed engines, no one else was really doing it before Epic made it big. id and Valve let people license their engines but didn't actively try and push it and didn't support it they just gave devs the source and demanded a fee and most devs before this gen built a new engine for every game they made. Epic came along and by pushing it into learning institutions and by offering it to developers at a "cheap" rate while also keeping their tech at the same level as prepriatary engines that other studios were making combined with ever incressing costs captured the market.
They will be tailoring UE4 to next gen consoles no matter how powerful they are.
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