PlayStation 4 Revealed; The Technology

Unreal Engine is one of the most used game engines throughout the seventh generation of consoles. Epic Games has revealed Unreal Engine 4 last year, and is present at the PlayStation meeting running on the PlayStation 4 in real time. The demonstration of Unreal Engine 4 running in real time, shows what developers would be capable of using the PlayStation 4. Some of the feature highlighter in Unreal Engine 4 running on the PS4 include dynamic lighting and shadowing, real-time reflections, subsurface scattering and GPU-powered particle effects.

Capcom has also revealed a new game engine for the next generation of consoles. Yoshinori Ono, producer at Capcom of the Street Fighter series, revealed the new engines and its new graphical power. Ono also went through the history of Capcom games released across the PlayStation consoles, coming to the next Capcom game that uses the Panta Rhei game engine. Panta Rhei has been shown in Capcom newest game for the PS4, Deep Down. You can see Panta Rhei in action in the Deep Down article.

Square Enix’s Yoshihisha Hashimoto appeared at the meeting to show their new game engine running in real time on the PlayStation 4. The Luminous Engine is Square Enix’s next engine for next generation consoles, succeeding Crystal Tools used in Final Fantasy XIII and Final Fantasy XIII-2. Though something did seem amiss, since the Luminous demonstration was also seen last year at E3. Both had the same footage but the one showed at the meeting was running on the PS4 in real time, whereas the E3 video was pre-rendered.