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Unreal Engine 5 revealed! Real-Time Prototype Gameplay Demo Running On PS5

Alebrije

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Its a tech demo but honestly think games will look like it. Performance its what we need to see. Saddly we still do not jave a date for PS5 launch.
 
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“The PS5 puts a vast amount of flash memory very, very close to the processor,” says Sweeney. “So much that it really fundamentally changes the trade-offs that games can make and stream in. And that’s absolutely critical to this kind of demo,” Sweeney explained.

“This is not just a whole lot of polygons and memory. It’s also a lot of polygons being loaded every frame as you walk around through the environment and this sort of detail you don’t see in the world would absolutely not be possible at any scale without these breakthroughs that Sony’s made.”
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I'm just hearing things now.
 
DeaDPo0L84

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My main takeaway is Horizon 2 is going to look fucking nuts. As a PC only gamer who usually picks up the current Playstation console, looks like that will be the model going into next gen as well.
 
M1chl

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martino said:
for sure, it's a tech demo and it doesn't pretend to be a game (at it's the case in the description of the youtube video)
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Yes but it's "how maybe games is going to look like", because if this was a teaser for actuall game, it would be more hype worthy. For me obviously, but I am glad to finally see some next-get type of shit.
 
Sota4077

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INCUBASE said:
Ok, I thought as much, hope my 2080 will run this shit
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I was initially going to buy a 2080, but I think at this point I might as well wait a year with my 1080 and just build out a new beast of a PC when next gen fires up.
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He also stated emphatically that it is NOT a game and it is explicitly a tech demo later on btw. So a playable technical demo is still just that. A technical demo.
 
TheAssist

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you know what? Color me hyped.

edit: the reason why I'm impressed is because it much different from the pre rendered tech demos of the past. I mean they really try to hammer home that this is real time and I would be more sceptic if these videos didnt fly on youtube with high end PC hardware running in real time on UE4. So this seems believable.
 
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Saber

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I'm really really impressed. I'm not a tech guy, so all this tech talk bores me to death but the visuals are stunning.

The character face isn't the best though(looks like Disney type of face), but the design and art its amazing. If anything, they could really transform this into a game using this same character, setting and all. I would totally buy it. A totally new IP inspired by Tomb Raider games(not the new ones because they suck) would certanlly make my interest go to high levels. They could even spice up with magic stuff.
 
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Looks great. But how many console games looked anywhere close to as good as the volcano and ghost demos Epic used to promote current gen consoles? None. So I am not expecting games to actually look like this. Tech demos can use 100 % of the hardware for graphics.
 
DeepEnigma

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SotaSkoldier said:
I was initially going to buy a 2080, but I think at this point I might as well wait a year with my 1080 and just build out a new beast of a PC when next gen fires up.


He also stated emphatically that it is NOT a game and it is explicitly a tech demo later on btw. So a playable technical demo is still just that. A technical demo.
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Ok.

They still need to make this into a full fledged game.
 
Dodkrake

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LostDonkey said:
Dev kit? Or actual retail unit?
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Is there a massive difference? Playstation's Dev Kit's have historically been quite similar / equal to production machines

SotaSkoldier said:
I was initially going to buy a 2080, but I think at this point I might as well wait a year with my 1080 and just build out a new beast of a PC when next gen fires up.


He also stated emphatically that it is NOT a game and it is explicitly a tech demo later on btw. So a playable technical demo is still just that. A technical demo.
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Tech demo running off of a "similarly specced PC", as most of them are, is not the same as "tech demo running on a dev kit with real time gameplay".
 
Vawn

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Two different marketing strategies.

Option A - Talk, talk, talk, build hype, promise the world, talk, talk

Option B - Sit patiently. Then, when no one is expecting it, SHOW the world, drop the mic and walk away.

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Sota4077

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Vawn said:
Two different marketing strategies.

Option A - Talk, talk, talk, build hype, promise the world, talk, talk

Option B - Sit patiently. Then, when no one is expecting it, SHOW the world, drop the mic and walk away.

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Sony didn't DO anything today. Epic did. Sony had nothing to do with the Unreal Engine 5. Sony paid Epic money to not mention competition. That is what happened today. Everything you saw today will be on all major platforms next generation.
 
GymWolf

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SotaSkoldier said:
Good lighting improves everything you said you prefer. Good lighting can even make bad geometry look better.
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I don't know how you can make a bad low res texture or clunky animation or basic scripted physics better with better lights and shadow tbh.

In this video you can see almost life like level of textures in the statues without any rtx.

I'm perfectly fine without rtx if that means having higher performance and resolution and details, on pc you have to scale down all these things to activate rtx, it's just a compromise that i'm not ready to sustain, especially when this demo looks far better than any raytraced game i tried on my pc.
 
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thicc_girls_are_teh_best

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Lawrence ‘Chunk’ Cohen said:
I don't know what led to it being shown on PS5 first but I am sure MS will get a the demo shown on their hardware too
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If MS were smart they'd probably roll with a different demo. 'Ya know, sloppy seconds syndrome and all that xD.

I wonder if MS's internal teams work on the Slipspace Engine might've created a bit of strain between MS and Epic in regards to these kind of engine showcases? Just a random (probably off) thought.

psorcerer said:
But it does not promote PS5 in any way.
What about "PS5 is just the easiest platform to show the demo on"?
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Both could simultaneously be true, so there isn't really a reason to refute it being a showcase while also validating your proposed notion too. The world's big enough for both.

You're thinking "promotion" in an overt way; you can subtly put something out that acts essentially as good promotion for something else. Ever heard of product placement? Just mentioning that as a rough analogy to the type of "promotion" that would be had if it were going on; you can have bad product placement and smart product placement. This would definitely an example of the smart variety.
 
StreetsofBeige

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SotaSkoldier said:
I was initially going to buy a 2080, but I think at this point I might as well wait a year with my 1080 and just build out a new beast of a PC when next gen fires up.


He also stated emphatically that it is NOT a game and it is explicitly a tech demo later on btw. So a playable technical demo is still just that. A technical demo.
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Exactly.

The problem with game engine videos is that they always look awesome in canned videos with nothing going on. Just like the Unreal 3 2011 Samaritan, there's a possibility there's no games using Unreal 5 having great looking rocks like this video for 10 years.

Just remember gamers..... ND showed a Twitter clip of UC 4 at 1080p/60 fps (that vid of Drake stumbling and falling on his face from I think 2014 or 2015). The real game not only didn't look as good (textures/lighting), but also the fps was reduced to 30.

Easy to do great looking short in-game engine scenes.

Not easy to make a whole game looking like a short demo.
 
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mortal

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Vawn said:
Guerrilla Games
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They already have the next iteration of Decima Engine. Which certainly will boast well on its own merit.
I imagine pretty much every single game next gen will look really good from a technical standpoint. We're at the point where even bad games will have amazing graphics lol
 
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Andodalf

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Alebrije said:
Its a tech demo but honestly think games will look like it. Performance its what we need to see. Saddly we still do not jave a date for PS5 launch.
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1440p 30, didn't look to drop any frames. But games traditionally don't match the demos shown. Arkham knight was the only one that comes to mind for UE3
 
Portugeezer

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acm2000 said:
Stunning, but tech demos always are and don't represent what we will get on PS4 and xsx.
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Sure, but you could have told me that was tomb raider next gen and I would have believed.
It's a tech demo, but they said it was being played on a PS5 and it seems based on the types of worlds/levels developers will create. Not just an in engine cutscene which is what we usually get as tech demos.
 
VAL0R

VAL0R

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Vawn said:
Two different marketing strategies.

Option A - Talk, talk, talk, build hype, promise the world, talk, talk

Option B - Sit patiently. Then, when no one is expecting it, SHOW the world, drop the mic and walk away.

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Unreal 5 will be featured on both XSX and PS5. The tech demo looked awesome, I agree (they always do). But why do you think this same demo would not be possible on the XSX? It's like getting super hyped for a 3rd party game saying, "Sony wins!", knowing it will come out on XSX day and date. Chill brah.
 
Nankatsu

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Man, the new Princess of Persia reboot looks amazing.

Hope this turns out to be a game. Beautiful tech demo.
 
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Dodkrake

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StreetsofBeige said:
Exactly.

The problem with game engine videos is that they always look awesome in canned videos with nothing going on. Just like the Unreal 3 2011 Samaritan, there's a possibility there's no games using Unreal 5 having great looking rocks like this video for 10 years.

Just remember gamers..... ND showed a Twitter clip of UC 4 at 1080p/60 fps (that vid of Drake stumbling and falling on his face from I think 2014 or 2015). The real game not only didn't look as good (textures/lighting), but also the fps was reduced to 30.

Easy to do great looking short in-game engine scenes.

Not easy to make a whole game looking like a short demo.
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Are you really comparing this to a gameplay demo?

 
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