PS5 announced for 2020 Holiday Season

[Madmick]

Why Is Epic Cheerleading PS5 And Being Weird About Xbox Series X With UE5?

It was…kind of a weird moment as Keighley, to his credit, kept trying to press Tim Sweeney and the other members of the team about whether or not everything they were saying about UE5 running brilliantly on PS5 would also apply to the Xbox Series X.

While Sweeney went above and beyond to praise the capabilities of PS5 as a console like no other before it, throughout the Q and A he nor the rest of the team would even utter the word “Xbox,” instead pivoting to more generalized “well we want UE5 to be great on all platforms etc. etc.” I think Sweeney finally slipped up and did say “Xbox” exactly one time, but not with any meaningful information attached to it.

What’s happening here? Is Xbox less powerful than everyone thought? Will it not run UE5 as well as PS5?

Almost certainly not, and all the conspiracy theories that emerged after the event are probably completely and utterly wrong. The simplest explanation is probably the right one here, that Epic has some sort of marketing deal in place with Sony and PlayStation, either for this presentation specifically (which was in effect an ad for the potential and power of the PS5) or perhaps more broadly with more collaborations to come down the line.

As a part of marketing campaigns, you often get notes as a stipulation of the arrangement where you’re not supposed to mention or promote the competition of the entity you’ve done the deal with. In this case, I could easily see the Epic team being told before this “please don’t mention Xbox,” hence all the back-breaking linguistic twists and turns they did to avoid mentioning it at all. But UE5 will certainly work on Xbox Series X, and members of that team, from Phil Spencer to Aaron Greenburg, said as much after the presentation.

Update: Tim Sweeney has chimed in about all this, saying that Epic has been working with PlayStation for years, but says UE5 is certainly coming to Xbox Series X too and will be “awesome.”

 

[Kevster]

There’s a lot of dummy spitting on gaming forums over this getting shown on PS5, it’s a good chuckle.

 

[Randlewand]

Good lord... I for one welcome our new digital overlords. Real life is going to be obsolete soon.

 

[Randlewand]

Uber nerd real time reaction.

 

[Drain Bamage]

I'm ready. Put my brain in a VAT and wire me into the Matrix.

 

[Randlewand]

I'm ready. Put my brain in a VAT and wire me into the Matrix.

Bro, me too

 

[Cole train]

still waiting for vr porn to develop further

though everyone says its fucking awesome even right now

 

[Smokes]

I can't wait to play Minecraft on the New PS5.

 

[KONG-D'SNT-TAP]

Still looks like cartoon characters

 

[Randlewand]

Still looks like cartoon characters

The character herself is stylized, she's not supposed to be photo-realistic like the environment she is in.

 

[KONG-D'SNT-TAP]

The character herself is stylized, she's not supposed to be photo-realistic like the environment she is in.

How will Yoshi look with these graphics?

 

[bubbleboyjones]

still waiting for vr porn to develop further

though everyone says its fucking awesome even right now

Yeah high quality VR porn is already here. The issue for wide scale adaption is massive file sizes. I'm talking 10GB-20GB files.

 

[Cole train]

Yeah high quality VR porn is already here. The issue for wide scale adaption is massive file sizes. I'm taking 10GB-20GB files.

Yeah i dont have that vr headset

But from everything i hear its awesome lol

 

[Vulcan]

morons still think these bullshit demos are real? I wanna see some real gameplay

 

[Drain Bamage]

I can't wait to play Minecraft on the New PS5.

Games like Minecraft are gonna benefit hugely from the added CPU power.

 

[BEER]

How will Yoshi look with these graphics?

 

[TribalDrumz]

Give me a new God Of War with half of this engines capabilities and I’ll be beyond happy.

 

[Smokes]

Games like Minecraft are gonna benefit hugely from the added CPU power.

Ray Tracing too.

 

[KONG-D'SNT-TAP]

What’s that from?

 

[BEER]

What’s that from?

Think it's just fan art. I googled "realistic Yoshi" because some dorks like doing "realistic" character designs.