Epic CEO: Unreal Engine 5 performance issues mainly due to devs not optimizing properly

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sc94597 said:

Hiku said:

Wouldn't it be both then, since not being given enough dev time is an industry-wide issue across many studios and engines, but we're primarily seeing performance issues to this degree mainly from UE5 games as of late? With some exceptions.

Reminds me a bit of PS3. Games had the potential to perform great, given enough development time.
But should Sony have built it that way when they should have known that most publishers wouldn't find that worth their time/money?

I am not convinced that UE5 games are exceptionally worse performing when looking at the proportionality of releases with current generation rendering features. 

It just happens to be the case that most games pushing the boundaries are using UE5 and there are therefore more examples of poor performing titles to choose from. 

For example, Alan Wake 2 was developed with Northlight Engine and also had significant performance issues on most platforms upon release. 

Star Wars Outlaws is a similar situation with Snowdrop. 

Doom Dark Ages uses Id Tech 8 and a similar situation.

People are just comparing 9th Generation titles to mostly 8th Generation and cross-generation titles when it comes to performance and wondering why a game engine tailored toward expediting 9th Generation rendering features has comparatively poor performance on current generation hardware.

 

This.  People want 8 year old GPUs and 5 year old consoles to run modern games well..  those days are over.  We are in the mist of a sizable graphic jump in the next couple years.  Snake Eater is just the start.