Unreal Engine 4 Due Next Console Generation; Estimated by Epic as 2012 to 2018, PC Coming Last

Pardon me while I yawn and scratch my head.

I look forward to the 5 generic run-n-gun games that are clones of each other, and one decent one, say ShockoBio

i wish epic would develop the engine for the next gen consoles and the pc at the same time instead of giving the market in which they started the shaft.

Whatever happened to that lawsuit from those guys that said Epic screwed them over when they licensed their engine?

Most ridiculous headline and statement EVAR

Wouldn't a design like id tech 5 where one code base covers all systems be the best?

lol 2012? you really think microsoft will wait until 2012 for xbox 3 i put money on it being out holiday 2010 but they won't announce it until very close to launch to not cannibalize 360 sales then hey will support it like ps2 is supported now with ports of every major game going to the 360 until the console after that comes out.

and epics own games ut etc online ones were not really pirated so no excuse there m8

Epic's complete disregard of the PC platform is the reason why I will never buy another game from them. Well, considering that they haven't released anything good since the first Unreal Tournament, it really doesn't matter.

so all upcoming games will still be dx9 based until, erm, 2012? geez,,,someone tell me otherwise!.

Unreal Engine 3 was decent but had some pretty major flaws that should have been taken care of before it ever saw the light of day. The texture streaming/pop-in issue both while playing and immediately after loading as well as ridiculously bad mouse movement/smoothing (seriously, how is it still possible to fuck up mouse code?) come to mind.

I can't very well hold UT3 against the entire engine since some games like Mass Effect and Bioshock did a great job with it despite its flaws, but I can say that I'm not terribly broken up that PCs get the engine last. PC games will just use a different engine, and given UE3's current track record I'd almost consider that a plus.

Epic's plans wouldn't be so much of a problem if the quoted year wasn't 2012... If the target was 2010 or maybe even 2011, they could maybe scrape by with that the new consoles would initially overpower PC tech at the time (granted, that would only have a snowball's chance in hell of being true if Epic came out with a very highly tuned and well-optimized version of UE4 then, otherwise look no farther than Call of Duty 2 and Oblivion to see the disparity between the PC and 360 that has existed since even before the 8800GTX) or at least get it to a wider audience more immediately. But if MS and Sony really aren't going to be getting anything flying until 2012 for the next generation... Well, I dunno. It depends on a lot of factors, but given the track that PC hardware has just started on again this year, if that keeps up through 2012 (and with Intel entering the gpu ring along with Asus rumbling about moving in a bit as well, I don't think we're going to see another year-long gap where something like the 8800GTX just reigns supreme and veritably unchallenged at the top; hell, the way nVidia and ATi are duking it out right now, it's going to be 3-4 month hardware cycles for gpu's and that won't just apply to the high-end), and if the trend that ATi kicked-in of keeping performance affordable keeps up... What price would MS and Sony need to levy to stay competitive performance-wise there and what are the chances of them levying that hefty a price? And none of this even factors in the preliminary efforts like Battlefield: Heroes, Quake Live, etc... That could well strike at the very heart of Microsoft's and Sony's revenue models for the 360 and PS3.

But whatever, if Epic slacks then someone else will pick-up the rope. As of late, there have been some really interesting efforts coming from indie engine developers, such as Leadwerks 2.

None of that broken texture streaming please. Thanks.

Epic... </3

You won my heart with the original UT, then slashed it by becoming the epitome of the gaming company that sold out.

More importantly, will it support the Phantom© ?

December 21, 2012

The guy's quote said it was in production. Are they implying its for sale? How can you sell something when you don't even know the hardware its supposed to run on?

Two weeks.

please add AA

"and if Nintendo ships a machine with similar hardware specs, then that also"


Hahaha...can't...stop...laughing.