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7. How The Partnership With Epic's Unreal Engine 5 Will Work
Whenever a new generation rolls around, there's always a batch of questions of thrown, specifically how much of a graphical leap gaming will take. A focus towards upping realism in the seventh shifted to unleashing something more creative in the PS4 and this is looking to continue for the ninth gen.
Sony announced a partnership with Epic Games, who have been cooking up the next iteration of their unreal engine. The tech demo entitled "Lumen in the Land of Nanite" looked admittedly stunning as we watched an unnamed female heroine exploring a lost temple.
Partnering up closely with a new game engine is all well and good, but how does it compare to the ever-improving hardware of the PC platform? Recently there's been a lot of marketing buzz about how powerful the PlayStation 5 is in conjunction with Unreal Engine 5.
With its drastically increased geometric detail involving billions of polygons, it's sure to be the driving force to development. But when it comes to sheer fidelity, consoles still run into trouble when it comes to competing PC graphics.
Ultimately it may fall to artistic vision and how developers leverage this new software to determines how the fifth PlayStation can match up.