PS5 and Xbox Series X just got Unreal Engine for next-gen Fortnite

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Epic Games' Unreal Engine now supports Sony'due south PS5 and Microsoft's Xbox Series Ten, meaning we tin can expect a suite of next-generation games using the engine towards the end of 2020 and in 2021. And Fortnite will very likely be 1 of them.

The latest release of the Unreal Engine, version 4.25, noted the support for the upcoming games consoles. This will let developers to commencement making new Unreal-powered games as well equally configure existing games that employ the engine to work on the PS5 and Xbox Series X.

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Equally the Unreal Engine is one of the most pop and heavily used game evolution platforms in the world, it was leap to make its way over to the next-generation Sony and Microsoft consoles. Just information technology's worth noting that this new back up is only at the "initial" stage, with Ballsy noting that more developer orientated updates volition exist released throughout the run-upwardly to the PS5 and Xbox Series 10.

Epic noted that the new support included "platform-specific functionality", which hints that there will be different features the Unreal Engine will support for the PS5 and Xbox Series X. Expect some clever audio back up for the onetime, every bit the PS5's Tempest 3D Audio Tech is expected to bring more than immersive sound to futurity PlayStation games.

Other than the potential for new Unreal Engine games to come to the new consoles, the added side by side-gen back up ways nosotros're almost certainly going to see Fortnite get ported over to the PS5 and Xbox Series X. We'd await both consoles to bring some graphical and performance enhancements to the world's largest battle royale game.

Some other interesting takeaway is that the Unreal Engine is gratuitous for developers to use, which could mean a lot of indie developers now accept the scope to create games for the PS5 and Xbox Serial Ten.

We're expecting a good range of triple-A games from major developers on both consoles. Just the potential for independent developers to create fresh and different games that tap into the ability and capabilities of the upcoming consoles could be very exciting for those picking upwards a PS5 or Xbox Serial X.

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