Epic Revealing Unreal Engine 4 Later This Year
Unreal Engine 4 will be revealed sometime this year, says Epic VP Mark Rein.
G4TV reports that Unreal Engine 4 will be revealed sometime this year. The announcement was made by Epic Games vice president Mark Rein at the DICE 2012 summit while he was talking to G4TV about Epic founder Tim Sweeney's contribution to the gaming world.
"People are going to be shocked later this year when they see Unreal Engine 4 and how much more profound an effect it will have," Rein said.
Epic is expected to reveal more information about Unreal Engine 4 later today at DICE 2012. In the meantime, additional reports are claiming that Mark Rein is saying that Unreal Engine 4 is already up and running on a variety of hardware "including systems we can't name yet."
It's easy to speculate that Epic has Unreal Engine 4 running on an iPad 3, the Wii U and Microsoft's Next Xbox SDK. Heck, it might even be up and running on Apple's rumored iTV, but highly unlikely any kind of PlayStation 4 is in the picture (could be wrong though).
If Epic dishes out a press release sometime today, we'll post it right here, so stay tuned.

"There is a long life ahead for Unreal Engine 3. Version 4 will exclusively target the next console generation, Microsoft's successor for the Xbox 360, Sony's successor for the Playstation 3 - and if Nintendo ships a machine with similar hardware specs, then that also. PCs will follow after that"
I hated him for this.
...PCs will follow after that"
I hated him for this.
Yeah, basically all developers have snubbed the PC. That's why basically all games have been held back in technical sophistication; it's so those games will fit on the consoles. I think I saw somewhere that console versions of games sell about 10 times higher than PC versions of those games. Also I think the number of PCs with superior hardware to consoles is much higher which just makes this situation look much worse if true.
A bunch of us PC gamers need more reason to upgrade our PCs. having a 5yrs old 9800GT PC able to play a 2010 game Assasin Creed 2 brotherhood @ Max detail @ 1680x1050 is just SOOO WRONG.
"There is a long life ahead for Unreal Engine 3. Version 4 will exclusively target the next console generation, Microsoft's successor for the Xbox 360, Sony's successor for the Playstation 3 - and if Nintendo ships a machine with similar hardware specs, then that also. PCs will follow after that"
I hated him for this.
...PCs will follow after that"
I hated him for this.
Yeah, basically all developers have snubbed the PC. That's why basically all games have been held back in technical sophistication; it's so those games will fit on the consoles. I think I saw somewhere that console versions of games sell about 10 times higher than PC versions of those games. Also I think the number of PCs with superior hardware to consoles is much higher which just makes this situation look much worse if true.
ipad and iphone 3 ipod touch 3 run unreal 3.
i was hoping they made an engine that ran better on lesser hardware, as in look at crysis 1 to crysis 2, about the same graphics with out dx11 but crysis 2 ran so much better.
lets hope that this isnt a brute force engine and it has some amount of finesse.
I'll assume you are a troll, but for people who may read this and think it's accurate here's my take on it.
UE3 already runs on iPad, iPad2, iPhone, iPod Touch, and several Android devices. Here's a list of iPad games that run on UE3:
Infinity Blade
Epic Citidel
N.O.V.A 3
Afterlife-Ground Zero
Infection
Warm Gun
Desert Zombies-Last Stand
Epic makes the Unreal Engine extremely scaleble so it can run on low-end hard and take advantage of high-end hardware. If memory servers me right, UE4 is supposed to highly threaded as well which will be great for things like Tegra 3 tablets, 4 to 16 thread PC processors, and probably most of the next-gen consoles.
A bunch of us PC gamers need more reason to upgrade our PCs. having a 5yrs old 9800GT PC able to play a 2010 game Assasin Creed 2 brotherhood @ Max detail @ 1680x1050 is just SOOO WRONG.
I dub thee "Sir Doubting Thomas".
But Steam doesn't release precise numbers of games sold, so the gap is actually smaller than that. Not that they give a shit about it, though...
I'd love to see a gaming rig for $200, but then again, you go with consoles, you better keep your game purchases in check because Microsoft, Sony and now Nintendo subsidize their consoles' prices with inflated games' prices.
UE3 already runs on iPad, iPad2, iPhone, iPod Touch, and several Android devices. Here's a list of iPad games that run on UE3:
Infinity Blade
Epic Citidel
N.O.V.A 3
Afterlife-Ground Zero
Infection
Warm Gun
Desert Zombies-Last Stand
Epic makes the Unreal Engine extremely scaleble so it can run on low-end hard and take advantage of high-end hardware. If memory servers me right, UE4 is supposed to highly threaded as well which will be great for things like Tegra 3 tablets, 4 to 16 thread PC processors, and probably most of the next-gen consoles.
I was not aware that UE3 was powering those games; I thought it was UE2. If I was Epic I wouldn't want anyone to know that that was UE3.
DO your computers normally die in less then 5 years? I have computers with parts that I bought cause they were the cheapest that have been running for about 7 years. This is while one of them was running in a little closet that has the heater for the house in it.
Even stupid Angry Birds have more gameplay and fun than that shiny, shader filled 3D garbage, they are calling games. Most of them are simply bad interactive 3D movies. Better just go to the movies and watch a movie. Sometimes movies are not too bad because they are at least directed by professional directors, while most games are directed by... ex-programmers who think they can "direct".
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If it were that good... but no. A crappy selling game on a console would be a million units. A blockbuster for a PC would be 100,000. So yeah, they may sell 10~20 million copies of a game for the 360 / PS3 while the same title may sell 40~80,000 for PC.
I guess UT4 won't ever be made... especially after the UT3 debacle.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSXyztq_0uM
I'll be happy