The Unreal Engine 5 PS5 demo is not a real game, but it is fully playable

Epic Games today unveiled the Unreal Engine 5 and presented it with a real-time PlayStation 5 technology demo called Lumen in the Land of Nanite. Although the tech demo is not a real game in development, it is fully playable, confirmed Epic. FIR asked Epic Games technical director Kim Libreri and Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney if Lumen's demonstration, running in real time on the development of a PlayStation 5 kit, was real. Libreri said it was not a real game, but Sweeney gave a surprising helping hand.

"He's playing 100% real-time on [PlayStation 5] and you have total control over the character," says Sweeney after Libreri said the demo was not a real game. turns out that it just means that the demo is not a real game in development with release plans. The demo itself works.

"It is fully playable," confirmed Libreri. "In fact, if GDC had taken place, we would have let people play with it."

So, you have it, even though Epic hasn't created an entirely new game for PlayStation 5, they've built a functional and playable demo that works with a PlayStation 5 development kit. Interview, Libreri even said to Heaven32: "I think a lot of people [will ask]," Oh [the demo] is it real? "But you know that the demo was taken from the back of a PlayStation 5 development kit. An HDMI cable entered a disc burner and played in real time, no editing, no tricks, c & Is what comes out of the box. "

So, although you won't be able to play Lumens in the Land of Nanite when launching the PS5, you have an idea of ​​what the running games and playing on the new PS5 console look like generation.

Tim Sweeney is not only interested in the visual fidelity offered by the engine, and underlines how Unreal Engine 5, associated with new generation hardware, should allow the emergence of new types of games. Highlighting how Battle Royale games could only emerge with the processing power and networks of the current generation, he explains how this could lead to a new stage in the unknown:

"The technologies we are showing today [will enable] entirely new types of games that we can't even imagine yet. And that's the exciting part. We can't even imagine what it will do to the industry to do. "