Epic Claims It Rewrote Unreal Engine 5 After Realizing What the PlayStation 5’s SSD Could Do

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The romance between Sony and Epic Games continues. In an interview with VG24/7, Vice President of Engineering Nick Penwarden claimed that his team rewrote Unreal Engine 5’s I/O code after witnessing what the PlayStation 5 and its oft-advertised SSD could do.



“The PlayStation 5 provides a huge leap in both computing and graphics performance, but its storage architecture is also truly special,” Warden said.



“The ability to stream in content at extreme speeds enables developers to create denser and more detailed environments, changing how we think about streaming content. It’s so impactful that we’ve rewritten our core I/O subsystems for Unreal Engine with the PlayStation 5 in mind.”









Does this mean that Unreal Engine 5 titles will look and run...

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[Grimlakin]

Is that why the demo runs on an Laptop with an RTX 2080? Just checking. Does he not realize the cat is already out of the bag on this?

 

[SeymourGore]

Is that why the demo runs on an Laptop with an RTX 2080? Just checking. Does he not realize the cat is already out of the bag on this?

I'm sure Sony paid handsomely for Epic's lip service.

 

[Zarathustra]