Unreal Engine 5 Announced + PS5 Demo

[Machiavellian]

DonFerrari said:

Machiavellian said:

Why would you believe that Epic and Sony had a legal deal.  Meaning that something on the level of a paid deal.  Just because Epic US showed the demo running on the PS5 doesn't mean other regions have the same goal.  The real goal of UE5 demo period is to sell UE5 to developers.  In China, demoing on the PS5 probably isn't a selling point but doing so on a PC is.  Evidently the demo can be run on PC and Probably XSX but that was not the aim of US Epic.

See what drkohler said. Sometimes it impress me that people on VGC seem to have 0 experience on corporate life.

drkohler said:

Of course there is a legal deal involved. Actually more than one, at least three.

First one: Sony engineers are forbidden to talk what they are working on to outsiders

Second one: Epic engineers are are forbidden to talk what they are working on to outsiders.

Third one: (this one usually is pretty complex) Neither Sony nor Epic engineers working on this project are allowed to talk about "other stuff" outside of the project.

(From my own experience working in cross-company projects).

Same thing on my company, to protect company IP you have very heavy deals on it, including as you said if you are working on a project involving Sony you aren't to spread information or have access to information from MS side or even talk about it with anyone outside the team and that if you have received information outside of what you have access you have to disclose to the legal team to take actions. So anyone that do leaks are breaking heavy contracts and if discovered could get big fines.

The key is that we have absolutely no ideal of any agreement and can really only speculate. Even if there is an agreement, we have no ideal the terms and if its big or small.  The only thing we have is 2 separate presentations.