RolStoppable said:
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.
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Epic wants to sell their Unreal Engine 4. The Unreal Engine 3 was so widespread this generation, because game development became more expensive and licensing an engine was more cost- and time-effective than building one's own engine. If eighth generation consoles aren't bleeding edge, less developers will need the Unreal Engine 4, because they can simply optimize their existing engines for sufficient results. Therefore, Epic is going to lose out on a lot of money.
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If that's the case though, couldn't they just suit UE4 to regular cutting-edge and continue to be relevant? Why the bleeding edge? There must be more going on here.
