The head of the company Epic games Tim Sweeney as part of a press conference on announced today engine Unreal engine 5, said that a new generation of gaming systems, especially Playstation 5will entail much more significant changes for the industry than a banal leap in picture quality.
Recall that technodemka Unreal engine 5 for Playstation 5, which appeared today, runs directly on the console in real time. According to Tima Sweeney, Sony managed to collect incredibly balanced platform.
“The PlayStation 5 has a huge supply of GPU performance, but it can also offer significantly increased memory bandwidth. This is a critical point. It’s one thing when you manage to upload all the graphics to the system’s memory, but when it comes to literally dozens of gigabytes of information that can be loaded instantly – it’s incredibly impressive, “Tim Sweeney explained.
All this should be possible thanks to proprietary SSDequipped with Playstation 5. According to the words Sony, developers creating games for its console will have the opportunity to almost completely get rid of loading screens and load data at unprecedented speeds. As a result, we must expect incredibly large-scale game worlds, devoid of downloads, for the creation of which the developers will completely change the usual approach to their work.
“For some time now, we have been working very closely with Sony on data storage technology. The PlayStation 5 memory architecture is far, far ahead of any alternatives available today on the PC. And it doesn’t matter how much money is involved. PlayStation 5 will help develop PC as a platform. The computer market adapts to the situation and realizes a simple thing: need to invest in the development of SSD, continues Sweeney.
Of course, the words Sweeney should not be interpreted as the fact that PC players have never heard of SSDs before. The main message of his speech is that custom data storage at Playstation 5, and the way it works within the system as a whole is a unique case for the industry that cannot be compared with the conventional high-performance assembly of a gaming PC. Moreover, due to the fact that a huge number of users still prefer to stay on traditional hard drives, developers simply do not have an incentive to use the full potential of SSD technology. However, Sweeney is convinced that with the advent of a new generation, the situation will really begin to change, which will entail changes both in the iron markets and in terms of the production of games – PC studios will also begin to rebuild.
Sweeney also spoke briefly about Xbox Series X. In this case the president Epic games does not cast doubt on the success of the American corporation in creating the set-top box, but merely notes that it is much more aware of Sony hardware because of the partnership mentioned above.
Launch Playstation 5 and Xbox Series X will be held in the holiday season of this year.
See also: Fortnite will enter the starting line of the Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5, the game will be transferred to Unreal Engine 5.
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