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chakkra on 10 July 2020
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V-r0cK said:
sales2099 said:

As I said, it’s weird they are partnering when Sony has little interest in actually using the engine. The demo highlights how it takes advantage of PS5s tech...this only makes sense if they have games in development that use UE5. Which they don’t. Otherwise if the games are multi plat development goes to the common denominator (PCs without SSD). Again, why partner up of one partner couldn’t care less about the engine? 

Which leads me to believe it’s a short term PR boost and someone else long term like Epic Store exclusivity. That demo should have got Xbox gamers excited due to the actual studios that are making next gen games with UE instead the PR went in another direction. It’s fair game if you spend $250 million, so really I can’t complain beyond expressing my annoyance. 

I thought it was weird too at first but apparently Day's Gone used Unreal Engine, and since they wow'd Sony so much with the PS5 Demo (and now that Sony has some shares with them) that we might see Sony to start encouraging their devs to start using UE5.  What this shows is that Sony now cares about this engine more than ever. 

In a business sense I'm curious as to why Sony and MS hasn't invested into Epic earlier.  So many games uses Unreal Engine and each of those games pay royalty to Epic, so by owning a part of Epic you too will get a slice of each of those games to some degree.  I wonder if now by owning a piece that Sony may strike some deal that they dont need to pay royalty to use UE5 for their own games.  Imagine Sony never needing their devs to create their own engine when Epic will do that for them, free of charge.

And as someone mentioned earlier that Epic has great technology for making movies so that could benefit Sony in their movie department as well.

All this leads me to believe that owning a piece of Epic can only be beneficial for Sony moving forward. 

....But I could be seriously wrong and overthinking all of this, and if anybody can tell me the negative for Sony owning a piece of Epic I'm all ears for discussion.

I don't see many negatives to be honest; I mean, unless this paves the way to having Sony games ported to EGS, which I'm sure many Sony fans would perceive as a negative thing.

When it comes to MS, well, this shouldn't affect them much unless Epic decides to over-optimize the engine for the PS5 architecture, in which case MS would be forced to find a different engine for their games, but that would affect Epic's profits directly so I don't think they would go that far.

In that meantime, Sweeney tweeting every week to do PR for PS5 hasn't done Xbox any good, that's for sure.