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Machiavellian on 21 May 2020
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DonFerrari said:
Machiavellian said:

Not sure why you would believe that.  Lumen and Nanite are features of UE5 and I doubt that Epic was handing over that tech to Sony just because they used their hardware to demonstrate the engine.  I am sure Sony developers will have tech that take advantage of the PS5 but who knows if they were working on the same concepts.  There can be many different solutions to solve a particular problem.  Sony devs could have something better or worse or nothing at all at this time, there is no telling until we actually see something.  

On another note, building a new engine and then using it to produce games takes a long time.  Since we have no ideal how long Sony has worked on any new engine for their first party games it could be years before we see any results.  The advantage Epic has is that they are not making an engine and a game at the same time so they can concentrate 100% on their engine which is something they excel at.

 

Sony will have some RT elements on their engine (the lumen like as I said) and will take advantage of the SSD speed and I/O (the nanite like as I said). So the games Sony is developing for PS5 and the engine created for it will certainly put a good show on both aspects even before UE5 is released.

Sony developers hardly use UE5 so to expect they won't take advantage of their own HW is wrong.

Sony have know the HW they are working on for longer than Unreal, so their engine could be on the work for several years already.

I am not saying anything about Sony devs using UE, I am saying you expect them to have the same tech which is incorrect.  We have no clue how Sony Devs solve the same problems that Epic addressed in their demo or even if Sony devs thought up the same techniques.  The only thing the PS5 has that Sony has promoted is the SSD.  For all you know this was the main focus of Sony devs not a new lighting engine or even the Nanite system.

We have no clue if Sony devs were even looking in the same direction as Epic engineers as development doesn't work that way.  Your main statement stated that Sony devs will have Lumen and Nanite tech but we have no clue what they will have or even if they will have something equivalent.  It may be something totally different, new or nothing at all.  UE5 is not a PS5 game engine, its a PS5, PC, Xbox, Mobile game engine and Epic has probably been working on its system way before there was a PS5 in development.  Its not like SSDs have not been on the market way before the PS5 and its not like the roadmap for PC SSD tech already shows some really fast drives will be coming out before the PS5.

As I stated, I highly doubt Epic shared what they were doing with UE5 because they would love to sell the engine to Sony Devs just as much as they do with MS.