Speaking to VideoGamer, Epic’s Mark Rein has said that his company is “very happy” with the current Xbox 360. “We’ve made successful games on it,” he said. “Gears of War 3 did extremely well as you saw and Gears of War: Judgment is fantastic. So I don’t really have anything negative to say about what they’ve done.”
He also says he’s grateful that Microsoft have supported the console so well and “created so much cool innovation on it so late in its life-cycle.”
But in terms of next-gen, Epic have obviously been working closely with both Microsoft and Sony. “We’ve certainly been talking with them,” he confirmed, “and we’ve been creating demonstrations to show what we think. And obviously the Elemental demo, same thing. We’re certainly showing capability if they give us that kind of power, but so is everybody else.”
But he’s happy to wait. “If you’re talking about the console you plug into the wall at home, I think that needs to be a really big jump,” he said. “I think it needs to be a really good justifiable, ‘Oh my gosh, look what you can do now that you couldn’t do before’. And to do that at a reasonable price it just takes time.”
“It’s going to come out whenever it comes out,” he continued, “and again, the whole do it right versus right now thing, I’d much rather get a massive leap in performance and capabilities than get something today.”
He also discusses the changes Sony have made to the PS3, especially with regards the XMB and cloud services. Have a read of the full interview.
Kennykazey
I’ll be ready for next gen in 2014. And I’d just like to say that epics ue4 demo looks dated compared to sqeenixs luminous engine demo.
Nickboss1
Ha they’ve changed their tune what happened to we need next gen now! I suppose we should be greatfull their still talking about the ps3 & 360 considering how far they have their noses up apples A$$.
jayjay119
I thought that was the who said that! I felt like I was losing it there for a moment. But still I feel that the time when moving up a generation will be a huge difference is gone now. I mean how much further can they go, affordably in the next gen?
xdarkmagician
Wait a minute. It’s Epic, they have had to be one of the developers that have a nextbox dev kit, and probably a PS4 kit too if the PS4 is indeed ready to ship 2013. That whole next gen needs to be powerful quote sounds like a dig at the new consoles. Its starting to sound like console developers aren’t too happy with the next gen specs, since no one has really said anything else except next gen needs to be powerful. I get it they’re developers, they’re always going to want more power, but in 2005 all the same people were talking about how much possibilities there are. Now presumably a year away from next gen all we hear is next gen needs more power.