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TruckOSaurus on 09 July 2020

So Tim Sweeney WAS sucking up to Sony.



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PotentHerbs on 09 July 2020

That's Insomniac money.



PotentHerbs on 09 July 2020
shikamaru317 said:
A partnership like this must be more than a little scary for Microsoft honestly. Microsoft has 12 different 1st party studios using Unreal Engine currently, plus alot of 2nd party studios most likely. To have your closest competitor owning a stake in the company that creates the engine that so many of your studios use seems scary to me. MS might want to look into moving more of their studios over to in-house engines after their current Unreal projects are done, either that or maybe acquire Crytek and turn CryEngine into a 1st party engine for their studios to use.

I don't see how Sony having a minority stake in Epic impacts Microsoft at all. Its not like they're going to make UE5 exclusive to the PS5.



ArchangelMadzz on 09 July 2020

PS Titles possibly coming to EGS????



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vivster on 09 July 2020

They certainly deserve each other.



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okr on 09 July 2020
CGI-Quality said:

Gorgeous Vanessa.



sales2099 on 09 July 2020
shikamaru317 said:
A partnership like this must be more than a little scary for Microsoft honestly. Microsoft has 12 different 1st party studios using Unreal Engine currently, plus alot of 2nd party studios most likely. To have your closest competitor owning a stake in the company that creates the engine that so many of your studios use seems scary to me. MS might want to look into moving more of their studios over to in-house engines after their current Unreal projects are done, either that or maybe acquire Crytek and turn CryEngine into a 1st party engine for their studios to use.

Everyone should just use the Slipspace Engine lol. Just makes a little less sense in giving royalties to a company that isn’t neutral anymore. 

Damn, well played Sony. Id have a field day with this if I was on the other side. 



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V-r0cK on 09 July 2020
Pavolink said:

Some are pointing that part of this is to get access to the impressive movie making tech used for something like The Mandalorian:

Well now that that's on the table I can see why then.  Could benefit Sony for both gaming and movies. 

Also the graphics in Madalorian are fantastic.



Soonerman on 09 July 2020

Is the Epic Games store even popular or profitable? I mean I have it just for the free ges but my money is always spent on physical or Steam.



PotentHerbs on 09 July 2020
sales2099 said:
shikamaru317 said:
A partnership like this must be more than a little scary for Microsoft honestly. Microsoft has 12 different 1st party studios using Unreal Engine currently, plus alot of 2nd party studios most likely. To have your closest competitor owning a stake in the company that creates the engine that so many of your studios use seems scary to me. MS might want to look into moving more of their studios over to in-house engines after their current Unreal projects are done, either that or maybe acquire Crytek and turn CryEngine into a 1st party engine for their studios to use.

Everyone should just use the Slipspace Engine lol. Just makes a little less sense in giving royalties to a company that isn’t neutral anymore. 

Damn, well played Sony. Id have a field day with this if I was on the other side. 

Sony bought a 1.4% stake lol.