V-r0cK said:
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. |
Well said. Days Gone however wasn’t a graphical powerhouse. If I see Naughty Dog, Santa Monica, Guerilla, Sucker Punch and Insomniac announce their next game will use UE5 then all this makes more sense and I have no reason to be annoyed or confused. Any combination of those heavy hitter studios, he’ll even one of those studios using it would shut me up. Otherwise it makes little sense to me if Sony is indifferent towards using it.
Unless the immediate benefit is a steady stream of positive PR for PlayStation. In which case I think 250 million is a steal to keep the mindshare of gamers.