Epic Games co-founder and vice president Mark Rein has been expressing his excitement about the PlayStation 4 on Twitter, saying ”I really am excited” about the 8GB of GDDR5 memory.
”8GB of super-fast RAM - holy cow!” Tweeted Rein. ”Can’t wait to see what Microsoft has in store to combat this!”
Epic Games appeared at the PlayStation 4 announcement to show us a new version of the Elemental real-time tech demo running on PS4. The demonstration, which you can see below, features real-time reflections, subsurface scattering, GPU-powered particle effects, dynamic lighting and shadowing.
Studio founder and CEO Tim Sweeney said, ”We are thrilled to build onto our long-established success with PlayStation. Unreal Engine 4 is expertly designed for the next generation of game development and the outstanding power of PlayStation 4. Today’s demonstration offers a preview of what developers can accomplish using our tools to create games for PlayStation 4.”
