Unreal Engine 4 to 'exclusively target the next console generation'

If PC developers are able to properly scale their games downward, the PC market is extremely large, and extremely profitable. Particularly if they're only going to give us ports, anyway. How much fucking money does a port cost?

Epic just feels burned because they put a lot of effort into Gears of War PC-- all that extra content, etc, only to have it sell like shit. Guess what? Third-person shooters suck with keyboard and mouse. Guess what? It runs (and looks) like shit on anything but the highest end PC. Gears of War is as bad of a PC game as it is great a console game. Despite all their effort, they pawned the game off to newbie developers who left it with plenty of simple game-breaking bugs upon release.

And a week after being burned by a buggy, unplayable Gears of War, Unreal 3 comes out. I think many people decided against getting it because of their bad experience with Gears.

Whatever. I won't be upset if I have to become a console gamer as long as consoles become as good as PCs. This generation, that's not the case. PCs still vastly surpass consoles in terms of graphics (Sorry, but 720p looks like shit to me on a big screen when I'm used to 1080p on a 24"), online play (we need the option to use PC-dedicated servers for console games), and they need to offer keyboard and mouse support.

I think that sux that they are venturing further and further away from their PC roots, but I guess if that's where the money is . . . But what about that PC gaming alliance? I'm hoping that Unreal 3 isn't gonna be a 360 exclusive. =/

LOL@ "10's of cores" by the next time a new system is released.

AMD is planning to release a server based CPU with 8 cores maybe in 2009. Intel has an *80* core CPU in the pipeline, but it's not going to be compatible with anything Epic makes, as well as it's 5 years away.

Unless you want to have fun coding your UE3 engine on a non x86 cpu, then recode it for the other systems, I wouldn't count on a 12+ core cpu anytime soon.

Honestly, I used to think of Epic as a classy developer, but this last generation, they let their "fame" from Gears go to their head.

Who cares if UE4 is exclusive to 360, that means what, 2-3 good games max, then a dozen or more crappy ones ?

@ Chrono

your supposed rock-hard "facts" are nothing more than your opinion. It sounds to me like you need to take a course in basic Critical Thinking and some Psychology.

Now, let's do a little analysis for 2007 of that "low" 14% for PC games, oh noes! it's only 14%!

well, look beyond the surface...

PC
PS2 (Huge)
PS3
PSP
Wii (Huge)
DS (Massively Huge)
Xbox 360

if each one is equal and has an equal share of sales, then each has 14% Also, that still doesn't count things like steam, which all you have to do it look at their readily available sales info to see it's well in the millions. While thats not great, it's still very far from that doom bs everyone is shouting.

"The PC games sales landscape is changing to one that is increasingly reliant on digital sources of revenue," NPD analyst Anita Frazier told GameSpot. "Our sales reflect the retail climate but there is a lot of gaming sales activity that is generated from digital downloads and subscriptions. I think the PC market continues to be quite healthy and we're continuing to work on how to get our arms around the spending that occurs outside of retail. A number of our [surveys] ask respondents to indicate which platforms they game on, and the results of those questions make it very clear that the PC remains very prevalent, if not dominant, in the total gaming picture."

I'm just saying... try thinking a little. There is more to meets the eye! Try it!

This is why I hate reading stories like this on joystiq, not really this but the whole 14% sales figure.

When on more tech-related sites (bit-tech) seem to dissect this rubbish quite quickly. Coincidence? I think not. It's actually embarrassing to see something like that on a tech site.

Listen guys all this bull about people who like pc gaming better than console not playing on a console in their life is stupid. Im stuying game development at the moment and I have just bought myslf a PC (first 1 ever) and its great, ive only ever played consoles, from the sega mega drive to the xbox 360 and all the time the pc sooner or later tops the graphical capacity of consoles. So this shit that epic are saying doesnt mean a thing because apart from Mass Effect all the UE3 games have looked the same graphically and you can say 'yep thats running on UE3' just by looking at them therefor you begin to think oh they look the same.

Now Crysis on the other hand WOW how amazing does that look? and yeh ur pc may not be able to play it but would you rather go out and pay cheaper for a new graphics card instead of a whole new console?

By the way everyone in the same industry as me have said they prefer to play games on pc rather than console, I think its because you have more freedom rather than haveing to have a specific console, you can have a machine taylored to your needs.