Unreal Engine 5 Announced + PS5 Demo

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CGI-Quality said:

curl-6 said:

Anybody trying to sell you something (in this case, PS5 and UE5) is obviously going to portray it in only a positive light, and in a collaboration like this, Epic's not going to say to come out and say "this isn't as good as what you'll get on Xbox Series X or a high spec PC". There's a certain etiquette to these kind of partnerships.

That's just it though (at least regarding the PS5 in conjunction with Xbox). No matter your allegiance, despite being the inferior platform, the PS5 will be able to handle things in ways that the XSX will not. That doesn't change the overall superiority of the latter. And right now, they're going to talk about the device with the fastest SSD because it matters with a demo like this and even a PC like mine doesn't have a drive that fast. Of course, that will change in the next 365 days, but right now, that's how it is.

So etiquette plays less of a role here than you think. It isn't strictly down to being polite.

I get that. It's just that, as you would know better than me, SSD isn't the only thing being showcased in the demo, a lot of it will also be GPU bound. When you've partnered with someone to show off their system naturally you will concentrate on the strengths of that system, that's just how it works. If this was a demo of UE5 running on Xbox Series X that they'd partnered with Microsoft for, it's not like Sweeney would talk about the SSD dependent aspects being better on PS5.