Epic 'more enthusiastic than ever' for next-gen consoles

February 13th, 2013, 23:07 Posted By: wraggster

Upbeat Epic Games boss Tim Sweeney has said the studio is "more enthusiastic now than ever" for Sony and Microsoft's next-generation offerings.
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Dismissing any possible scepticism over the technical gap between current and next-generation machines, Sweeney assures that the improvements will be significant.
"It's going to be a substantial leap over the current generation," he said.
Speaking during a presentation at the Montreal International Game Summit in November 2012, Sweeney cited huge costs developing the Samaritan Unreal Engine 3 tech demo, which took four months to finish with a team of 30 people involved.
Sweeney said he expects development costs "at the start of the next generation" to be around double that of start of the previous generation.

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