Epic Shows Off Mind Blowing Next-Gen Graphics
The Game Developer Conference is going on right now, and Epic Games just showed something behind closed doors that will blow your mind.
Epic Games is now more than just a games developer – it's an engine technology maker that licenses its software to other developers to help designers make the games rather than the tools. Now at GDC, Epic is showing off the most bleeding-edge version of Unreal Engine 3.
Judging by where everyone's jaws have dropped, it's odd that Epic isn't calling this Unreal Engine 4, but Epic's Mark Rein did say that if he had to assign it a version number, this would be Unreal 3.975.
Keep in mind that all the images that you see here, as close to CG as they are, run off of three GeForce GTX 580 GPUs – so the hardware to run these sort of graphics are available off the shelf today.
Of course, not everyone has trio of GTX 580 cards sitting around, but Rein did clarify that this engine is scalable all the way up from an iPhone 3GS, with all the details dialed down to the minimum, of course.
“Another thing that’s awesome is that the engine now scales all the way from an iPhone 3GS up to next-generation hardware. That means you could theoretically make a game that’d run on every single one of these devices. Mobile phones to tablets to set top boxes,” said Rein.
We want a game to play that looks like this right now, but the purpose of this tech demo isn't to show off Gears of War 4. Epic made this to tell hardware makers of what kind of targets developers will be aiming at in the next-generation.
“The whole idea behind this is to tell the hardware manufacturers that this is what you should be doing down the road,” Rein explained.
While we already have desktop GPUs that can do the stunning things seen in the screenshots, it would be a shame if the next-generation consoles wouldn't be able to handle at least this.
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People are building HUGE machines for like £2000 to be able to play games like this when they're brought out.. where as consoles are for 14 year olds that have no clue about computers. No one is going to buy a £1000+ console when they thought the PS3 was too much at £350 or whatever it was. Computer gaming will be the only realistic way of playing these games.
Massively impressed. This is why, if you're a proper gamer, you get a PC.
These look simply stunning. Granted the hardware capable of this isn't exactly mass market but atleast people are pushing the limits of hardware.
'While we already have desktop GPUs that can do the stunning things seen in the screenshots, it would be a shame if the next-generation consoles wouldn't be able to handle at least this.'
The only thing with that is obviously the price of the consoles.... Most people won't be able to afford something that expensive and if manufacturers do put prices lower, they'll lose masses of money against the cost of the product. Then again the games would be optimised a lot more but even so. Gogo PC!
im not sure whos paying £2000 for a gaming pc. the 1 im planning in the summer will cost around £700 and should play pretty much all games on high setting at 1080p.
'Billboard Reflections' lmao