Epic: 'If next-gen consoles aren't bleeding edge, Apple will beat them'

[Slimebeast]

happydolphin said:

Slimebeast said:
So much hate towards Epic in here, which I think is awkward coming from a core gaming community. Epic is with us, not against us. Everything companies say is not cynical. What if they just like to get powerful consoles to allow them to make what they're most passionate about, advanced graphics?

There are PCs for that you know. If they want it on consoles, there must be other, much more important reasons than "We want to be able to make games with high-end graphics". It likely has something to do with such a passion so as to want to bringing bleeding-edge to the masses, or some kind of corporate agenda (which I doubt).

Either way, bringing bleeding-edge HW to gen 8 is not business-wise for any of the big 3, especially not MS, who could be left out of the multiplatform loop and get graphics for the lowest common denominator, rendering their bleeding-edge lead nearly without return.

PC's mean nothing for multiplatform games. Bioshock PC looks the same as Bioshock on PS3. Crysis 2 on PC looks the same as Crysis 2 on PS3. BF3 on PC looks the same as BF3 on PS3, the only major differences are resolution, texture sharpness and crisper lighting and shadows´while polygons, architecture, mipmaps, base textures etc are the same between PC and console version. You need strong consoles as a common lowest dominator because all multiplatform games are designed around consoles, not PC.