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.<\/p>\n
“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 <\/a>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.<\/p>\n “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.<\/p>\n “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.”<\/p>\n 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”.<\/p>\n “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.”<\/p>\n