Unreal Engine 6 Revealed By Epic Games, Will Likely Power Lots Of Project Helix Titles

oh cool a preview of next gen UE lag.

Feels like they haven't ironed out all of the problems with UE5 yet...

Honestly, we can't deny that there's been a huge and disappointing gap between the UE5 demos they initially showed us and the games that followed.

So right off the bat, I’m not going to get too excited about whatever they show us for UE6.

On the other hand, I think at this point it’s very difficult to see those impressive generational leaps of the past. For me, the last system that really impressed me compared to everything I’d seen before was the Xbox 360, since then, the improvements have been small steps in lighting, performance, resolution... But without any leap that makes me go “wow!”

But they can barely get unreal 5 to run good on series x so will unreal engine 6 look actually good on next gen machine or will it be the same as this gen where it's not really an upgrade on the previous engine in practice?

@Gabrie Yeah your exactly right but then again you still get people dying on the hill that slightly upscaled images totally change the experience.
Us gamers are very contrary the leaps are only significant when it suits us for them to be look at the hullabaloo about every game on the ps5 pro you would swear anyone not on one is playing with one eye closed or bad vision the way the difference is "mind-blowing" compared to anything else.

This doesn't excite me at all. In reality, I actively avoid games that use UE5 because the majority are pretty slideshows on Series X due to awful optimisation.

Now Xbox and Playstation can do another round of re-remasters.

Halo: campaign evolved this year and Halo: Campaign Revolved in 2027. And cant forget The Last of Us Part 1 version 4 (or would it be 5).

Gears of War 1 (4th edition)
Skyrim 5000

The "new" game possibilities are endless.

A few things worth mentioning:

1. Rocket League's development studio Psyonix belongs to Epic Games, so they are expected to promote the newest tech of the parent company.
2. According to Wikipedia Rocket League is built on Unreal Engine 3, so an upgrade is overdue.
3. Rocket League is limited in scale and scope - perfect for testing new visual advancements before applying them on a game with a larger scope.
4. Whatever Unreal Engine 6 brings to the table, it will still need to scale to Switch 2, lower end handheld gaming PCs and mobile smart devices - possibly even Xbox Series S|X and PS5 consoles if the next cross gen phase will be longer than the last one.

Hopefully it's not the s**tshow that UE5 has been.

@BacklogBrad If Sony has its way, we'll all be playing The Last of Us remasters, remakes of those remasters and remasters of those remakes of remasters until we're dead.

Threatening to release UE6 is actually terrorism.

@TrollOfWar Fair points, but I’d push back against #4. Technically UE5 runs on PS4 (some features are paired back/absent) and we all know how that engine runs. So the mere fact UE6 “will still need to scale to…lower end devices” means nothing, and UE6 will almost certainly perform as poorly as UE5 unless a god tier dev perfectly optimizes their game. We’ll probably get 2 or 3 of those in all of UE6’s lifespan.

Great, more high-budget "AAA" expensive tech to suck all the money, creativity, and design out of everything and power a new generation of very attractive checklist games.

@TrollOfWar excellent points

Hopefully developers will actually optimize their UE6 games for both PC and consoles instead of optimizing them poorly for PC and then downgrading the "optimized" PC version and releasing it as is on consoles.

I'm waiting for UE7.