Xbox Boss Comments On Yesterday's Stunning Unreal Engine 5 Demo

Then how about u showing us something !!!

@Hobbesyall They will be, just not until July.

NIce, Can't wait for July when Microsoft shows off some 1st party titles.. Unreal Engine 5 looks incredible..

@Hobbesyall Unfortunately, from a UE5 perspective, we probably won't be seeing the engine run on Series X hardware until it releases. I think the boat has sailed.

It was well-played from Sony's perspective to team up with Epic to reveal UE5 on PS5 because, unless more engines start to utilize the micro-polygon technique for asset details, no game will look as good until UE5 releases. That level of detail is now only associated with PS5 until UE5 goes live on both systems.

It's possible that the particular demo is only possible with PS5's faster I/O solution; but without knowing exactly the file size of the assets being used onscreen, we will never know - and probably never will.

2.5GB/s is still pretty darn fast, all things considered. The Series X is still capable of using it's SSD I/O solution as a separate memory bank in the same way PS5 can use it's SSD I/O solution as a separate memory bank - it's just that the PS5 can handle larger assets better (it takes less optimization).

What that means for UE5 is completely unknown at this time. Does it need that 5GB/s of the PS5 or is 2.5GB/s enough to get the same result?

I fully expect to see something running on Series X hardware before July in response to this, though not a first-party title.

Unfortunately, I feel like everything will now be compared to the UE5 demo running on PS5. That demo is some powerful ammunition for Sony fans in the "only exists in the comments section" console war. If a game on Series X doesn't look as good as that UE5 demo, PS5 fans will simply use it do shoot down Series X. Logic be damned.

All I can say is, I can't wait to see UE5 in the wild - regardless of platform.

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Like actual, playable games, you mean? 😏

@GamingFan4Lyf exactly. My feeds now are flooded by about Sony’s PS5 “dominance” sighs

@GamingFan4Lyf I Totally agree regardless of the platform it is amazing! And it was a very smart move! I hope MS can follow through on their next show

I love this comment "Super impressive and can only imagine what the new Unreal 5 Engine will look like on the world’s most powerful console" as counter to Epic and Sony's commercial reveal because they are foreseeing what Sony fans are going to do from now on.

@GamingFan4Lyf That's interesting, Sony fans are going to use this demo when it's an engine demo on a development kit. I remember Nintendo showing a breathtaking Zelda demo for Wii U that never materialised. At the end of the day, it's Digital Foundry and similar websites that are going to compare software running on Series X and PS5 objectively and not Sony fanboy websites.

I don’t get the big deal about this tech demo. It wasn’t gameplay because it wasn’t even a game. It looked nice, but meh.

And anything they showed will look better on XSX because it’s the more powerful console.

A website already posted "You cannot help but feel Sony has already raced past Microsoft" referring to the Unreal Engine 5 demo on a PS5 development kit. Interesting, considering that the engine will run on other platforms and better.

So much paranoia here. I'm pretty sure Series X will be utilizing UE5 also. I don't know enough about system architecture to know if there will be meaningful gaps in performance between the 2 systems, but my hunch, and many years of watching "console wars" tells me no, at least outside of 1st party games - and then you can't compare anyways, right?