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Unreal Engine 4 now available for PS4

GE: "Epic Games has announced that its Unreal Engine 4 is now available for the PlayStation 4."

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DaThreats4061d ago (Edited 4061d ago )

I expect UE4 to use the full potential of the PS4.
Also, I want to see diversity with the engines. Too much UE last gen, give me FOX Engine, Cryengine 3.5, Frostbite 2.5, Luminious Engine, and more

Godmars2904061d ago

I hope the damn thing works day-one. Is easier to work with. UE4 that is.

NewMonday4061d ago (Edited 4061d ago )

@DaThreats

most of all those are exclusive company wide only and not for licensing.

Cryengine is available for licensing but hardly anyone uses it for some reason.

talisker4061d ago (Edited 4061d ago )

@newmonday: the reason is the licence fee for Cryengine is something about $1M. Companies that can afford it have their own proprietary engines. Besides, Cryengine isn't really suitable for consoles, see how Crysis 3 performs (15 FPS is a joke).

I'm particularly eager to see Frostbite on next gens, same as proprietary Sony engines from SMS and ND. But I guess we have to wait with ND till E3. They won't reveal anything before TLOU releases. Ubisoft also has some really neat engines (Watch_Dogs and Assassin).

Godmars2904061d ago

Its comical that Crytek first came to general note for making a game which only really played on maxed out PCs, then pushed their engine for cross platforming use, only for it to best perform on high-end PCs.

adorie4061d ago

Give me all the engines!! *swims in code*

Blackhawk34061d ago

How about some Unreal Tournament with user mods like ps3? Sounds great to me!

user76939584061d ago

the Rai engine.. if deep down was true gameplay wow we got few amazing engines this gen.. this time..

cannon88004061d ago (Edited 4061d ago )

Panta Rhei Engine :D and yes it was running in real time. It's actually easy to tell.

silenius4061d ago (Edited 4061d ago )

who actually fears that the next gen Multi-platform titles (Im only referring to PS4 and X.720) They wont be able utilize PS4 Tech advantage in comparison to Xbox?
And that's because Microsoft's "rule" of not having an inferior port if not better?! <- don't even know if this pathetic rule is true...
I really hope this won't be the case :/

BitbyDeath4061d ago

No i think that was about something else cause MS had a few inferior ports, the worst i remember being FFXIII

KwietStorm_BLM4061d ago

I never heard anything about a rule against inferior ports. I only read about not accepting a game later than the PS3 version or without the same content, something like that.

konnerbllb4061d ago

There's no such rule by MS. The reason multiplatform games are better on the 360 is because it's easier to code for and port to. There aren't as many memory tricks to perform on the 360 because of it's ram size and architecture.

Spoon_4061d ago

WONDER if madden will actually give a real try at simulation football this go round

DeadlyFire4061d ago

Well last gen everyone relied on UE. This gen it looks like most major publishers have their own engine for many titles under their umbrella with UE 4 and CE 3.x to fill in any gaps.

Konami - Fox Engine
Square Enix - Luminious
Bethesda - id Tech 5.x
EA - Frostbite 2.x
Capcom - Panta Rhei

And likely some more out there. :P

plaZeHD4061d ago

All first party Sony In-House engines will run and look better than those engines you listed, on PlayStation 4.

ChickeyCantor4061d ago

in the end it wouldn't matter. It's the mechanics and artistic value that mask the engine. Developers just need to make great games.

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first1NFANTRY4061d ago

hopefully the days of blocky, plastic looking character models are a thing of the past. One of the many reasons why i dislike the unreal engine.

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Derekvinyard134061d ago

Technically can't wait to see how it is

Kennytaur4061d ago

The UE4 demo has the same "shiny plastic" look to it.

UnholyLight4060d ago

Themba76

You make a great argument and I totally agree!! I'm sure this gen we will see those things you suggest

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clintagious6504061d ago

This will be great for 3rd party devs to use, i rather see sony 1st party studio create an engine between sony santa monica & naughty dog & gg & just share that engine with all their 1st party studios.

ziggurcat4061d ago

given the PS4's architecture, i expect the unreal engine to perform *much* better than it did on the PS3. i tended to avoid getting the PS3 version of games that used the unreal engine unless it was one of those 2-3 X360 discs vs. 1 PS3 disc situations.

Minato-Namikaze4061d ago

Weird thing was when Epic made unreal tournament 2008 for ps3 it ran real smoothly. UE3 could have run really well on ps3 but i guess most devs couldn't get their heads around the ps3.

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Strike gold with Richman 11 on Xbox, PlayStation and PC

Richman 11 is the latest edition of the Richman series to land on Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation and PC

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Scheming Through The Zombie Apocalypse Ep2: Caged releases on PC and console

Scheming Through The Zombie Apocalypse Ep2: Caged is the follow-up to 2019's Scheming Through The Zombie Apocalypse: The Beginning.

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LittleBigPlanet 3 Servers Are Officially Shut Down 'Indefinitely,' Sony Confirms

Sony has confirmed that LittleBigPlanet 3 servers on PlayStation 4 will remain offline “indefinitely” following troubles with the service from earlier this year.

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rlow16h ago

Sad day, hopefully they’ll allow a third party server solution. Goes to show game preservation is an uphill battle.

Fieyy6h ago

First the Helldivers launch and then this

Sony still can’t run online services/games.

-Foxtrot6h ago

Do you not get tired creating duplicate accounts...

It's super sad at this point

Knightofelemia3h ago

Last time I remember Helldivers is doing great with players both PC and Playstation.

Fieyy3h ago

And how was it at launch? A disaster for weeks.

arkard1h ago

How was that Sonys fault?

Fieyy1h ago(Edited 1h ago)

Is Sony not the publisher?

jjb19811h ago(Edited 1h ago)

It's crazy that you keep making accounts just to be a troll. You went through the trouble of making it just to try to stir the fanboy pot. 🤡 activities.

Fieyy1h ago

Still got your attention though huh ;)

just_looken1h ago

What needs to be highlighted by this is that the series has had 4 main games then that go kart spin off yet sony let them all die.

There is 0 games like this on ps5 and to my knowledge 0 first party main kids games no tech demo crap

Sony purchased Media Molecule studio the ip then tossed it away letting it rot for over 7 years yet the community carried on until now were we have lost 16 years on all games of content along with no replacement.

Everyone goes on about ea killing studios but sony has killed way way more but its fine its sony they can do no wrong.

Before the sony blidboys track me down again go fire up your holy boxes all the dlc they tossed out all the trophies and all the user content needs a server side handshake that no longer works. Yes offline single player version 1.0 works but that is it.

Media Molecule was not cut i know but they only made LBP and dreams it was reported they just missed the chopping block
https://gamerant.com/little...

Do not forget the dreams game was tossed out 2020 but 3 years later support was pulled
https://www.digitaltrends.c...

All in all this is another failure at sony on a long long list in the past 10 years

Inverno27m ago

It's kind of hard to disagree when SONY has a history of abandoning many of their IPs. They killed Mod Nation and turnt it into LBP Karting because of brand recognition but left it to die too. They made their own Smash Bros only to rush the studio, and turn the game into an advert for recent release at the time and still let it die. They shut down PS Home for more or less the same reason, they left it to rott till it became too broken and exploited to bother fixing.

Tacoboto56m ago

I feel bad for Media Molecule. For the ideas they have it seems they need a publisher that supports games like this and Dreams especially for as many players as possible.

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