Unreal Engine 4 To Target Consoles

PC gaming may be having a bit of a bad time lately (or maybe a good time depending on which person at Epic opens their mouth on any given day). Today, Tim Sweeney, Epic Games CEO and Unreal creator, has decided to make it a bad day for the platform by proclaiming that Unreal Engine 4 will be more focuses on console than PC’s this time round

“The Unreal engine is really tied to a console cycle… So, it is normal to expect that we will add new stuff in 2011 and 2012,” he comments to tgdaily in a recent interview. “Version 4 will exclusively target the next console generation, Microsoft’s successor for the Xbox 360, Sony’s successor for the PlayStation 3. If Nintendo ships a machine with similar hardware specs, then that also. PCs will follow after that.“