As companies do once they need to grow to be higher buddies, Sony and Epic Games have introduced their intentions to work nearer along with a press launch and a price ticket. Sony have made a “strategic investment” to amass a minority curiosity in Epic to the tune of $250/£197.5 million. Suppose this explains why we noticed that Unreal Engine 5 tech demo working on a PlayStation 5 eh?
“Epic’s powerful technology in areas such as graphics places them at the forefront of game engine development with Unreal Engine and other innovations,” says Sony Corporation CEO Kenichiro Yoshida. “Through our investment, we will explore opportunities for further collaboration with Epic to delight and bring value to consumers and the industry at large, not only in games, but also across the rapidly evolving digital entertainment landscape.”
For his vows of enterprise friendship, Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says “Sony and Epic have both built businesses at the intersection of creativity and technology, and we share a vision of real-time 3D social experiences leading to a convergence of gaming, film, and music. Together we strive to build an even more open and accessible digital ecosystem for all consumers and content creators alike.”
As Yoshida mentions, Sony produce numerous leisure outdoors of gaming. Epic’s Unreal Engine has already been used for issues like digital sets for the Star Wars: The Mandalorian present. With any luck, Sony’s funding in Epic will push for brand spanking new tech and instruments outdoors of games that finally discover their manner again to enhance game growth as nicely.
Or possibly they’ll simply do trailer premieres and movie screenings inside Fortnite for each film they produce hereafter. Maybe simply that.
