In news that will predictably prompt a bunch of comments about how much consoles suck, lol, Epic’s Mark Rein has reminded everybody just how important the PC remains in the gaming industry.
“We’re at the stage in the life of the consoles where the PC has shot by them in terms of capabilities,” he tells Eurogamer TV in the first part of a series about the future of PC gaming, adding that the desktop behemoth is “always the most important leading edge platform.
“Don’t forget every game that’s ultimately built is built on a PC. PCs are always going to be the tools through which all games get made.
“With the PC you can simulate the future – you can put enough hardware in a PC to show you what a future console will look like.”
The company recently showed off its Samaritan Unreal Demo, a sort of preview of what’s up next for PC gaming, which Rein describes as “our love letter to hardware manufacturers”.
“We hope the console manufactures look at that and go, jeez, if we aim for that in our next consoles we’ll be competitive with what you’ll be able to do on a PC in a year, year and half from now. A reasonably priced PC – obviously you can do it on an expensive PC already.”
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