Epic boss is thrilled at the prospect of PlayStation Neo and Xbox Scorpio

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DragonRouge said:
What is he so thrilled at? As far as we know MS and Sony won't let devs do anything new with Scorpio and Neo, just res and graphics settings upgrade.

Because the upgraded version of a console won't have the exact same kind of components, like different family of CPUs (Jaguar => Zen) and/or GPUs. That means that, because they'll have to work with 2 or even more console hardwares, game engines won't be as optimized as they are now.

And because of that, Epic sees an oportunity to get more Unreal Engine licenses as there will be less reasons to develop in-house game engines.