That's exactly what it is, in engine cutscene that's "playable" the same as most tech demos
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Unreal Engine 5 revealed! Real-Time Prototype Gameplay Demo Running On PS5
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That's exactly what it is, in engine cutscene that's "playable" the same as most tech demos
VFXVeteran
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Everyone always wants to brag about how fast they implemented something to make it look like they have polishing to do.
Whatever bro. The day I need an SSD to play a game, I'll be the first to tell you. Until then, you can keep justifying the power of the SSD being a factor in these games graphics all you want, but the truth is that the GPUs on these next-gen consoles are still bandwidth limited.
Ascend
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He's not wrong though. Your average PC will not be able to run it. But, provided the PC has enough RAM space and enough CPU power to do decompression, the SSD is not required to be able to run this on a PC.
[The PS5] puts a vast amount of flash memory very, very close to the processor,” says Sweeney. “So much that it really fundamentally changes the trade-offs that games can make and stream in. And that’s absolutely critical to this kind of demo,” Sweeney explained.
“This is not just a whole lot of polygons and memory. It’s also a lot of polygons being loaded every frame as you walk around through the environment and this sort of detail you don’t see in the world would absolutely not be possible at any scale without these breakthroughs that Sony’s made.”
PS5 SSD Is 'Far Ahead' of High-End PCs, Epic Games CEO Says - IGN
The PlayStation 5 breakthroughs on SSD and storage are ahead of any PC alternatives.
But I guess you know better than Tim Sweeney.
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mango drank
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Jaysus.
... I wonder what PS6 and Xbox Series Z graphics will look like.
... I wonder what PS6 and Xbox Series Z graphics will look like.
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Ballthyrm
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Until we get a breakthrough in the 3D/Art pipeline, this kind of demos mean nothing.
Sure it is nice looking and it runs on the hardware.
But it also represent what i think is an unsustainable amount of work.
Easy to make a 10-15 minute demo, harder to hit that for 15-20 hours.
Is it really financially viable to make a whole game to this level of quality ?
That's always going to be the question deciding how beautiful you can make a game.
Not ,can you do it, but can you do it on time and on budget ?
Sure it is nice looking and it runs on the hardware.
But it also represent what i think is an unsustainable amount of work.
Easy to make a 10-15 minute demo, harder to hit that for 15-20 hours.
Is it really financially viable to make a whole game to this level of quality ?
That's always going to be the question deciding how beautiful you can make a game.
Not ,can you do it, but can you do it on time and on budget ?
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geordiemp
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Time stamped, unique stoage architecture is phenominal....far ahead of the highest end best PCs you can buy - EPIC quote 13 May 2020/
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Business
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I'd argue this is precisely one of these times we are shown not more of the same. The detail is just incredible and the speed at which such detail was being pushed in the final scene is a sight to behold.
martino
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you're taking out of context the discussion and making a generalization.
they talk ps5 on comparison to ps4. they don't mention pc.
So you can't be sure.
they only thing they said is ssd is faster than anything pc but never they say you need one or one as fast for the same result there.
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Nickolaidas
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You're shitting me. You're telling me that a 3000$ PC can do what a 500$ PS5 can and THEN some? Get out!
DeepEnigma
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Not arguing that. In fact, it was exactly what I said where mid range won't run this, and that Sweeney said only future high end. His words, not mine.
CrustyBritches
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Cool demo! The great thing about Unreal is that even indie devs have access to this kind of technology.
DeepEnigma
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[The PS5] puts a vast amount of flash memory very, very close to the processor,” says Sweeney. “So much that it really fundamentally changes the trade-offs that games can make and stream in. And that’s absolutely critical to this kind of demo,” Sweeney explained.
“This is not just a whole lot of polygons and memory. It’s also a lot of polygons being loaded every frame as you walk around through the environment and this sort of detail you don’t see in the world would absolutely not be possible at any scale without these breakthroughs that Sony’s made.”
PS5 SSD Is 'Far Ahead' of High-End PCs, Epic Games CEO Says - IGN
The PlayStation 5 breakthroughs on SSD and storage are ahead of any PC alternatives.www.ign.com
But I guess you know better than Tim Sweeney.
Like I said, Sweeney's words, not mine. Maybe Sweeney should "drop the SSD talk".
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cryptoadam
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I will give credit here for getting everyone talking and excited. MS had a whole presentation, yet Sony managed to get it done with this little few minute video.
And since UE and EPIC are not exclusive its a big missed oppurtunity for MS to not of had this demo at their showcase. Imagine if MS would of debut UE 5 last week there would of been a very different reaction.
Even if this is another deep down/Killzone moment doesn't matter Sony got what they needed which was to get people excited about "next gen" and PS5 while MS was just a whole bunch of Meh and wheres the gameplay.
And since UE and EPIC are not exclusive its a big missed oppurtunity for MS to not of had this demo at their showcase. Imagine if MS would of debut UE 5 last week there would of been a very different reaction.
Even if this is another deep down/Killzone moment doesn't matter Sony got what they needed which was to get people excited about "next gen" and PS5 while MS was just a whole bunch of Meh and wheres the gameplay.
Altares13th
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That is a demo of unreal 3.95 on a very very high end PC.
It was demoed at the end of the 360/ps3 era to showcase the potential of the engine after a full gen of updates.
geordiemp
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The Cartographer
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The technology behind UE5 looks interesting.
The game demo part on the other hand looked absolute Uncharated level trash.
The game demo part on the other hand looked absolute Uncharated level trash.
NXGamer
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You are not getting this change are you?
martino
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Unreal Engine 5 tech demo uses 'film-quality' assets, runs on today's hardware
The PlayStation 5 demo shows off Epic's impressive 'Nanite' rendering technology, coming next year.
Kim Liberi is one of the 4 guys present in the presentation
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If this is the sort of graphics we will see running on the new consoles despite them being poor in the bandwith limited department,I’m sure most normal gamers would be ok with it.But hey-ho
Trying to imagine what the next Gran Turismo will look like..
lachesis
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Only thing I found little strange on the demo was actual animation (especially hair) and the touted scarf which were being told it's moving very naturally, but didn't seem that natrual at all, never getting in the way of the player. Other than that - I thought it was awesome - especially the flying scene, which probably involved huge amount of data load in, hence the power of SSD.
But after all, it's a tech demo. Remembering the PS2 Tech Demos and all (which basically killed Dreamcast hype for a lot of people - to wait for the PS2), as well as Unreal Engine being pretty much universal engine for all major platforms - I'm sure XSX would handle it just as well, if not better with faster CPU and more plentiful CUDA units.
Perhaps super speed SSDs may be a must have in order to play a game in the future - unlike console gamers, PC gamers are more likely to put big bucks on their rigs, so maybe that's the case... but I think that's really pushing it too far. In the end, Developers would have to look at and also think about the players with moderate setups and all.
But after all, it's a tech demo. Remembering the PS2 Tech Demos and all (which basically killed Dreamcast hype for a lot of people - to wait for the PS2), as well as Unreal Engine being pretty much universal engine for all major platforms - I'm sure XSX would handle it just as well, if not better with faster CPU and more plentiful CUDA units.
Perhaps super speed SSDs may be a must have in order to play a game in the future - unlike console gamers, PC gamers are more likely to put big bucks on their rigs, so maybe that's the case... but I think that's really pushing it too far. In the end, Developers would have to look at and also think about the players with moderate setups and all.
VFXVeteran
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[The PS5] puts a vast amount of flash memory very, very close to the processor,” says Sweeney. “So much that it really fundamentally changes the trade-offs that games can make and stream in. And that’s absolutely critical to this kind of demo,” Sweeney explained.
“This is not just a whole lot of polygons and memory. It’s also a lot of polygons being loaded every frame as you walk around through the environment and this sort of detail you don’t see in the world would absolutely not be possible at any scale without these breakthroughs that Sony’s made.”
PS5 SSD Is 'Far Ahead' of High-End PCs, Epic Games CEO Says - IGN
The PlayStation 5 breakthroughs on SSD and storage are ahead of any PC alternatives.
But I guess you know better than Tim Sweeney.
I just talked to someone at Epic. They are proud of it running on the PS5. They wanted to showcase that. It's always been running on the PC.
There ya go.
BattleScar
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Why are we even arguing about this...?
DeepEnigma
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JareBear: Remastered
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I thought it was a decent way of showing what the engine can do though, and those kind of games are very popular
HAL-01
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not sure what youre implying, if anything this one being playable makes it even more representative of the quality to be expected of future releases
martino
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Was it Tim Sweeney?
You can stop . Look at my previous post.
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VFXVeteran
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What does that mean?
Sethbacca
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We've certainly come a long way, boys.
I was so impressed with this on my voodoo card back in the day.
Slings and Arrows
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Power of the cloud?
I'm sure streaming 8k assets won't eat much more data than 4k, I'm sure.
you can load the whole demo in 32 gig ddr4 ram which is 2x faster then the ps5 ssd ..
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Matsuchezz
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I was blown away by the demo running on the PS5 devkit. It made me smile because it let my imagination run wild about the things that are going to be accomplished, the tech thing that predicts where the characters feet and hands are going to be placed while touching the geometry was something that i was expecting. The lighting looks awesome wiht the global ilumination, Cerny said on the Road to PS5 that he has seen RT run on a PS5 and if add RT on top of what we watched today, we are going to have a feast for our eyes!
The Cartographer
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They're popular for sure and I guess they'd rather make a Uncharted like demo than make something like the Squall-Rinoa dance scene or the FF7 tech demo.
Well, at the end of the day it's just a demo so whatever.
D
Deleted member 17706
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This might be a better timestamp, actually:
They specifically talk about the PS5's I/O enabling the streaming of assets. Interesting.
ethomaz
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So how you will have a big initial load time something PS5 wants to get rip off from games.
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With an SSD or mechanical hard drive?
(Sweeney already implied it would run ok with an NVMe SSD. And they also said the engine will run on current generation consoles, with compromises. So it seems they can scale the fidelity of the Nanite system based on the capability of the hardware. The key thing about what I quoted is that Sweeney is talking about the fidelity of the demo, not the ability to run at all.)
ethomaz
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Yes. So why the comparison?
Do you understand Epic is public talking about that and you can watch in the video? We don't need "inside" info for that.
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Jigsaah
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Kinda sorta agree. I think the character model was nothing special but that kinda depends on the art direction honestly. The art is obviously fantasy-oriented and I think it's kinda cool that they mixed the photogrammetry with that fantasy style. I tend to look at the demo as a whole. It was impressive regardless of the framerate or resolution. On the other hand it does make me wonder about other things like what would be the scope of a game like this. Once you add up all the pieces, will they need to cut corners in some ways.
That's why I don't get too hyped over tech demos. If this was a game slated for release I'd be like "Day One insta-buy". It's not and so while it fun to imagine the possibilites, even be hopeful, I've been disappointed far too many times to fall for this again.
HAL-01
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youre asking why im comparing Unreal 4 on the PS4 to Unreal 5 on the PS5??
NXGamer
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Your statement regards SSD having nothing to do with the games visuals/effects. If you believe that statement then you are not understanding this.
ethomaz
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Nope.
Why are you comparing an in-engine PS4 demo with a full playable PS5 demo?
Like I said the PS4 UE4 demo is comparable with Hellblade 2 trailer.
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JareBear: Remastered
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I wouldn't be TOO worried about that, honestly
ethomaz
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It is using a dynamic advanced temporal retro construction tech.
For better of for worst even PC games are using that (DSLL) and you will see a lot in the future.
Perhaps native resolution will be find in very few titles.
It is a trade off for graphic fidelity and effects.
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oldergamer
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Thats because they haven't released NVME drives with this performance level yet.