 Hey everyone I got a bit of a bonus video for you today before I get into it Obviously you can enter our Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition giveaway Just like the video comment down below subscribe hit that bell icon, but let's get into the nitty-gritty here We're talking about Unreal Engine 5 and we're talking about PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and I want to React to this. I've already seen it a couple times and it's absolutely incredible We also have some additional information that has come out after the fact about this tech demo There was a Q&A section and all that stuff that Jeff Keely did with the developers and all the stuff at Epic Games that created this demo because this is a tech demo now This is being confused as being a PlayStation 5 Tech demo I've seen some reactions out there won't you know call anyone out specifically But I've seen some reactions out there that are that are misrepresenting what this is This is not a PlayStation 5 tech demo It is a tech demo of a new engine that is running on PlayStation 5 So what this is is a tech demo of Unreal Engine 5 Running on a PlayStation 5 it does not mean this tech demo cannot run on an Xbox Series X or a PC This is just showing some of the capabilities of the engine now We see all the time it reveals of of Engines of what it's Unreal Engine or whatever the case might be Unreal Engine is one of the most popular ones out there Where there was the original you know two three four now five They're always have really really impressive looking things and the actual games We end up getting on those engines don't always live up to the initial tech demo of That but I think the idea of this demo and it you know running on a PlayStation 5 The point of the demo was to show that this is gonna be more close to what you can actually create in Unreal Engine 5 So I'm just gonna play this demo in the background I kind of talk about things as as it's happening and things I talk about things that I want to highlight and I Guess the one of the biggest things I suppose this engine's doing and again This was always gonna be possible on better hardware with better engines because engine development is more important than power You can throw all the power in the world But the engines aren't more advanced that power is not gonna matter and a big thing you've seen here is more photo realistic environments you're seeing Environments here that are kind of what you know They describe as what you would see in a movie if a movie was putting You know like like say the Avengers movies or something those Marvel movies where a lot of stuff's happening on green screen A lot of the stuff you will see in that green screen if it's not actual footage of places It will be actual captures of places that have been put into a computer and rendered out in this fashion to make it look More photo realistic essentially This is the kind of stuff you would see from movies not traditionally video games especially in the rock formations and it's because there's billions and billions of triangles that they have been able to Condense down to millions of triangles I think they said 16 plus billion or whatever and they condense it down to 20 million triangles and the triangles that are like the Size of what used to be an individual pixel which is where you're getting all this high-quality fidelity from And the big thing with this engine is they essentially created a new lumen engine for lighting which is just more realistic lighting notice We're not talking about ray tracing. We're not talking about anything You know crazy here We're talking about this specific engine has its own lighting and you're just seeing them kind of turn the lights off And they're gonna move you know, this is what when they turn the light off That's without lumen This is with lumen on they can move the light source around everything's really dynamic and you're gonna see that throughout this demo That's a huge thing that they feature And beyond that is obviously their ability to compress billions of pixels or billions of triangles into millions And make it something that is Inperceivable to us as humans as people, you know, we have The uncanny valley effect basically where things become so realistic That you can't tell the difference between real life and the game now I can still tell this is a video game. Not everything in it. I would say is To that that level of photo realism Mostly because I feel like you know, there was so much focus on the environment so much focus on say her clothing You know, they talked about that cloth at one point because they introduced a new physics engine That the character model itself I think you know, it's kind of a giveaway that it's still a video game There was less focus on the character model more focus on the environment You know I mentioned these bats are being done with a new technology as well a new rendering technology and What I what I'm seeing here is maybe the most impressive thing we've seen are the next gen We've had some gameplay reveals for Xbox series X which didn't feel like actual gameplay a lot of it was like cinematics And even then some of it's like current gen stuff That's just like, you know best played on Xbox series X not made specifically for a next gen system And obviously from Sony side, we've seen pretty much nothing This would be the first thing and a lot of people popping this up as man This is an impressive debut for PlayStation 5 and it's definitely a really impressive thing shown running on PlayStation 5 Well, that's not kid ourselves. This is gonna run on the Xbox series X The Xbox series X is from all developers that the saving it. It's a little bit more powerful than the PlayStation 5 They do talk throughout this video and throughout the interview that the PlayStation 5 was easy to work with in development of this demo and in development of You know their engine But this engine is clearly gonna run on Xbox series X and PC and it's probably just as easy to develop on those platforms as well We need to remember PlayStation is not using some secret sauce here. It's using PC architecture. So is the Xbox series X so our PCs So whatever you're doing on PlayStation front, that's so easy. It's equally easy This is obviously just more of a Sony paid for this Sony paid for this debut of this demo to be exclusive on PlayStation instead of them saying we're gonna here's what it can do on a PC Here's a new an Xbox. They're just Sony paid money They threw a paycheck out there to get this demo to to kind of be there their reveal of gameplay on the system Now this demo is just a demo. It's never gonna become a full-fledged game But I think what's really important here is seeing like how the bugs are reacting to the light You know that that's just something we haven't really seen in games too often Especially at that that number of bugs and beetles And you're gonna later see her like fly through the air and just how crazy this is and some people are like man This must be rendering in 4k and 8k and while this video the feed that I'm playing for you guys You guys are getting this in 1080p But the video that I'm actually playing and I'll link it down in the below is you know in 4k on YouTube with YouTube compression This demo is not actually running in 4k. This needs to be stated because some people think that like everything You're seeing in this demo is crazy, and it must be 4k or 8k. It's not It's 1440p the game is running in 1440p and then being upscaled to 4k And that's a good thing. I want to put this out there as a gamer It is a good thing that this is in 1440p because 1440p is the sweet spot a lot of people view Resolution as the be all end all of debates is it true 4k is it checkerboard 4k? 4k is not the fight for next-gen the fight for next-gen needs to be about creating In this specific art style anyways more photo realistic things better AI Better interactions with environments and lighting the the fight needs to be to take what we can already do with games And just make it all infinitely better not just resolution And so I think that's what's exciting here is this is running at 1440p. It's probably 30 fps I can't I can't tell by looking at it if it's if it's 30 or 60 But I feel like there was a moment when she like put her hand on the door and moved in that it looked like there was a little stutter So I'm guessing it's 30 fps, you know, maybe not locked 30, but And that's fine like this isn't a real game. This isn't something we're gonna get to play Developers might get this demo packaged in with them, but it's not a real game It's not something that us as consumers are really gonna be messing with and be able to play Unless unreal engine 5 ends up being free and then we can do whatever But that probably won't be the case at first in fact They announced at the end of the video that this engine is not available till 2021 Obviously developers have the engine just there won't be any games coming out made an unreal engine 5 until next year And obviously we assume, you know epic owns unreal engines So we assume that they're going to do things like introduce it in the fortnight and all that eventually And see what what difference is it can make in that game, which isn't necessarily a photo realistic game Now this is the scene I was talking about where she's flying to there and everything just looks absolutely incredible The destruction of the environment They talked about how sound, you know, that they've Improved on sound where you can hear sound from different areas and I know Sony emphasized that as well But again, it's not a PlayStation exclusive thing. It's an engine. This is an engine demo I think that's one of the biggest messages I wanted to get across and no folks This is likely never going to run on a Nintendo switch. I'm not saying it won't be scalable I'm not saying we suddenly won't see Unreal Engine 5 games appear on a PlayStation 4 Pro or an Xbox series X That's entirely possible. I just don't think that as consumers we should expect this to be on a Nintendo switch But that's just my my two cents on that You're just seeing the logo unveil here for Unreal Engine 5 at the end What kind of backup of it so you guys can see a little bit more of that gameplay And I I honestly think that this is a really good thing for the industry Because this is where you're gonna start seeing You know the difference between current gen and next gen a lot of what you're seeing in this demo has never been done in current gen Because it can't be the amount of rocks falling the this level of detail This is where you see that next-generation leap and is it as impressive as going from standard deaf to HD? No, nothing's ever gonna be as impressive as going from a 360p slash 480p jumping up to 720 and 1080 It's not gonna be that impressive, but it doesn't matter. This is still impressive on the surface. This is next-gen This is the stuff that we could talk about how switch can't do this, right? You know we talked about how a lot of games made in current engines that are out there can still come to switch Like Witcher 3 but if Witcher 4 or whatever is being made in the future is made on this Yeah, we're not getting that on switch and that's where Nintendo will need to advance in technology Again, this engine is going to be scalable. Unreal Engine 4 was scalable all the way down to phones This engine will be scalable as well probably all the way down to phones too So it's not something that's not possible in a future switch or a switch pro or you know a switch 2 definitely could have newer Technology that could run not necessarily maybe at this fidelity, but could run something similar But yeah, I think this is exciting. This is What as gamers we should be more excited about than the tech specs We always focus on the specs of the system Xbox series X is more powerful more terror flops more this than the PlayStation 5 PlayStation 5 might have a faster SSD although them sure the Xbox ones pretty comparable I think that in the end The engines are really where you see a lot of the technological advances being taken advantage of I don't think there's anything in here that PlayStation 5 is doing that Xbox series X can't do or that a PC can't do I think this is mostly just an amazing look at what a next-gen gaming engine can do and Unreal Engine Is trying its best to make make creating photo realistic environments like this more easy to do even than it is to do for say Movies which invests, you know millions and millions of millions of dollars and they're trying to get a look like this With green screens and all that and doing it in the game needs to be a little bit easier because it's hard to import You know 20 billion pixels, you know when they show that statue at one point They said that statue alone was 16 billion or 20 billion triangles And then obviously they condensed that down and they had that room with a whole bunch of those statues I just think this is a great look at the future. I don't think there's anything to be concerned about You know at this point with this demo this demo is practically perfect the way it is for what it is it is at a look at Unreal Engine 5 running on next-gen hardware and This is the most next-gen of next-gen things we have seen and I think that's just really really cool Obviously, it's a good look for Sony because a lot of people are thinking, you know Well, this is the first look at gameplay on a PlayStation. I can't it's a tech demo tech demo not real gameplay tech demo But yeah, it's it's impressive. I got it I got to give Epic and Unreal Engine 5 a lot of a lot of credit here Like that's the statue I was talking about with all those pixels. This is a this is a great look at What a photorealistic? Graphic style is gonna look like next-gen in the games that get off of the older engines onto the newer engines Not that you can't get some good stuff out of the older engines But it's these new engines that are gonna show the true power of next-gen technology So I'm pretty a next-gen technology. It's current technology folks. It's current technology But it's it's it's done in a better way So PC gamers should be thrilled to see this Xbox gamers should be thrilled to see this Sony gamers should be thrilled to see this even Nintendo gamers You know this isn't necessarily something you mean you're not seeing this on a switch But we can be interested in what the future of Nintendo might hold as these engines might become more and more possible to be on There this also, you know kind of sets the bar, you know What's next for EA after the frostbite engine because the frostbite engine can't do this So what's next for them? What's next for Ubisoft? You know, they still don't even have their their engine that they their newer engine running on every single franchise And now here we have Unreal Engine 5 so maybe like hey look at the new tech You know, what are you gonna do about that? Do you are you just gonna keep modifying your engines or you're gonna create something that takes advantage of it? You know, we've never had SSDs native in these systems before so are we gonna take advantage of that? It's just incredible. I'm excited for next-gen. I know I'm a Nintendo guy. This is Nintendo Prime I am Nate from Nintendo Prime, but I love all of gaming and I can't wait to get a PlayStation 5 get an Xbox Series X I have a gaming capable PC already that I game on. I can't wait to experience, you know true next-gen experiences Which are gonna feel Like 2021 is the earliest we're gonna get something With a next-gen engine probably realistically 2022 2023 when games are fully developed using just those engines I think Unreal Engine 4 is gonna stick around for a while because it's also an incredible engine. It's just not this I mean Yeah, what is there to say? They did an incredible job on this demo. So Thank you guys so much for tuning in. I am the thinner over just from the center prime Let me know your thoughts at Unreal Engine 5 PlayStation 5 Xbox Series X next gen Is this finally what you guys needed to see to know what is possible? With these new systems that you cannot do with prior systems at least once these new engines come out Is this what you needed to see? Are you disappointed? It's not true 4k Does that matter to you that it's not true 4k that it's just upscaled? Personally, I think there's a lot more of the goals in the visual presentation than resolution So it doesn't bother me. I don't watch my movies in 4k generally So I'm okay. Even if the room 40 40p upscaled. I wouldn't really care 1440p to me is a sweet spot between visuals and resolution and All that I think most of next-gen games should target 1440p in my opinion Thank you guys so much for tuning in and I'll catch you in the next video