Epic Games is confident that its new graphics engine will set new visual limits on the next generation of consoles, among other benefits.
Unreal Engine 5 has been presented as a vivid image of what the next generation of consoles may be able to offer. The technical demo shown through PlayStation 5 will be compatible with machines of the current generation, the next and mobile devices. Advantages for developers, ease of use, saving resources … and also an active search for photorealism, as Epic Games itself has once again indicated.
Quentin Staes-Polet, General Manager at Epic Games, has declared in a meeting with Indian Express that this new engine will not only save development time for teams, both small and large, and will provide advantages so as not to be limited in their ideas, Instead, the ambition for graphics that fit reality is also a priority: "We are pursuing photorealism with Unreal Engine 5," he begins by saying. "The new engine will allow us to save a lot of time and, at the same time, it takes us one step closer to a complete simulation of reality."
Because it will not be limited to being a step forward in the video game sector, it can also be used in film and television. An example of this is The Mandalorian, the Jon Favreau production available at Disney + from Lucasfilm. The successful series features Unreal Engine 4 and, perhaps, in the future this or other productions will do the same with the fifth member of the family.
Unreal Engine 5 will support real-time hardware accelerated raytracing.
On the next generation consoles there is also a lot of hope. "Unreal Engine 5 will be amazing on PS5 and Xbox Series X," said Tim Sweeney, CEO of Epic Games, based on the technical demo released days ago. In this article we have summarized the keys to this engine in five, the launch of which in a trial version is expected in early 2021 in a select group of studies. The commercial version will be in demand until the end of 2021, so from 2022 we can begin to see more commonly the name of UE5 as the engine used in video games on both consoles and computers or mobile devices.
Fortnite will be one of them, with a transition already confirmed for the middle of next year. Phil Spencer, head of Xbox, has also stated that some teams from Xbox Game Studios will use Unreal Engine 5 in the future.
