Unreal Engine 4 to be much more advanced than Samaritan demo
"If Samaritan looked like a piece of ****, that's what Unreal Engine 4 would look like," Rein told us.
Shacknews had the opportunity to sit down on a private, invite-only press conference with Epic Games. At one point during the presentation, the Unreal Engine 4 logo appeared on the screen. (It's blue now, FYI.) Epic Games' Mark Rein told us that the company was showing off its next-generation engine at Game Developers Conference--but only to developers. The public reveal will happen later this year, Rein reconfirmed.
But what is Unreal Engine 4? And how does it compare to Samaritan, the high-powered Unreal Engine 3 demo that's been shown off for years? "If Samaritan looked like a piece of crap, that's what Unreal Engine 4 would look like," Rein told us.
So what is Samaritan? "Our goal with Samaritan was to show you the future," Rein said. "It came a lot sooner than we expected."
He proceeded to show us a real-time demonstration of the Samaritan demo running on a single unannounced graphics card coming from NVIDIA. Codenamed "Kepler," the new graphics card runs on a standard power supply and is able to render a demo that originally took three GeForce GTX 580s to process.
"We didn't expect this to come out so soon," Rein told us. "If they can do this this year on a single video card, maybe next year on a laptop."
With PC tech progressing even more rapidly than Epic Games had anticipated, it's likely Unreal Engine 4, ready "around 2014" will be far more demanding. And with Unreal Engine 4 aiming for next generation consoles, it wouldn't be too unrealistic to expect the next Xbox to offer more than 10 times the power of the current system.
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"If Samaritan looked like a piece of ****, that's what Unreal Engine 4 would look like," Rein told us.-
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Correctamundo. He is telling us how much better UE4 is than Samaritan, by using the well-understood data points of "what you saw in the Samaritan demo" and "piece of shit".
Let me clean it up a bit: "If Samaritan were to look like a piece of shit, then what you saw in that demo is what what Unreal Engine 4 would look like."
That's Mark Rein for ya.
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Oh, I know exactly what he was saying. What I'm saying is that the Samaritan demo looks pretty damn good and now he's putting his team on the hook for making it look like crap in comparison. If the first UE4 shots don't look fucking amazing compared to that demo, then he's made it look like his company is over promising and under delivering. Not exactly what you want from a PR guy, imo. He shouldn't have said it the way he said it.
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More "Shit Mark Rein Says":
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/339078/epic-if-next-gen-consoles-arent-bleeding-edge-apple-will-beat-them/
"Don't worry. We are absolutely every day [pushing platform holders]," Rein told CVG. "This is why we did Samaritan and why we're doing a really high-end demo in the room here. We really are pushing these guys, because if they don't, Apple will go right past them."
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-03-12-epic-vp-id-be-shocked-if-wii-u-doesnt-do-well
"It's a great brand that a lot of parents really trust and they're probably ready to buy their kids an HD Wii that does that much more than just being an HD Wii. I'd love it if they'd done it last year, but I'm excited for them to do it this year. I'd be shocked if it doesn't do well."
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