Unreal Engine 4 - Primarily for Consoles

[Kshitiz_Indian]

See this Q and A session a website had with Tim Sweeney from Epic :-

TG Daily: Let’s talk about your game visions for the future and the next Unreal Engine? Where is EPIC going with the Unreal Engine 3.5 and 4.0?

Sweeney: The Unreal engine is really tied to a console cycle. We will continue to improve Unreal Engine 3 and add significant new features through the end of this console cycle. So, it is normal to expect that we will add new stuff in 2011 and 2012. We're shipping Gears of War now; we're just showing the next bunch of major tech upgrades such as soft-body physics, destructible environments and crowds. 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.

Full Q and A : - http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/36436/118/1/1/

That's betraying the PC lol. They are betraying the same thing that brought them into the position they are now? Unreal Engine is synonymous with PC's, and now once they have gone up in name and fame, they are ditching the same PC whose hardware capabilities in 4 years will be far more than those of consoles? That's not fair is it?

What are your thoughts?

 

[Punk_Sk8r]

Here we go, this gives console fanboys more reason to say "Hahah PC gaming is going down the drain"

 

[AbBh]

My thoughts are - its the right decision for business.

 

[Kshitiz_Indian]

You know, there are still people like Crytek who are going to make PC gaming alive for years to come. Epic is really losing a very important market if you ask me.

You wait for 5 years but you wouldn't get a game like Crysis on a console would you?

 

[pingusten]

Pfft, they can have it if you ask me. Unreal Tournament 3 sucked, still play 99 and 2004, but 3 was a rehash and a terrible one at that.