Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney has clarified several aspects of the technical demo released a few days ago on rumored secret deals with Sony.
Tim Sweeney, CEO of Epic Games, has published several tweets through his official Twitter account clarifying various aspects about the technical demo of Unreal Engine 5 presented a few days ago and alleged secret agreements with Sony on the exclusivity of said demo on PS5. So much so, that Sweeney insists that Unreal Engine 5 will be fully compatible with all platforms and that "there is no secret agreement with Sony" in this regard.
"Unreal Engine 5 will be incredible in both"
And it is that although it was announced that the technical demo of Unreal Engine 5 was running in real time on the PlayStation 5 hardware, Epic Games already clarified that the new version of its popular graphics engine will be compatible with both the new console of Sony as with Microsoft's next console; It was even clarified that Unreal Engine 5 could be exported to other platforms such as PS4, Xbox One, PC, Nintendo Switch and iOS and Android mobile devices, as is the case with the current Unreal Engine 4 version.
The Unreal Engine 5 demo on PlayStation 5 was the culmination of years of discussions between Sony and Epic on future graphics and storage architectures.
The Nanite and Lumen tech powering it will be fully supported on both PS5 and Xbox Series X and will be awesome on both.
– Tim Sweeney (@TimSweeneyEpic) May 15, 2020
"Both Nanite and Lumen will offer full support on PS5 and Xbox Series X and it will look amazing on both," Sweeney says in his recent social media post, hoping to shelve the hints once and for all. of the community.
To all this, Sweeney himself adds in another publication that there is no agreement with Sony or "secret treatment" between the two companies after showing the technical demo of Unreal Engine 5 through PlayStation 5. "There is no secret agreement. 100% of the things we've been working on with Sony over the past few months have already been publicly announced: the EU5 demo on PS5, Nanite, Lumen and the use of Epic Online Services for cross-gameplay across all platforms. ” , concludes the CEO of Epic Games.
