Epic confirmed they're working on high-end console title

Not Fortnite. More here.

Epic founder Tim Sweeney told Edge that Fortnite, which takes cues from Minecraft and Gears of War's horde mode, is the furthest along of the three.

"It's going to push next-generation graphics as you'd always expect Epic to do," Sweeney said, declining to comment further. An Epic Games developer showed some concept art for what he claimed was a new IP at GDC last month, which may be related.

Sweeney brought up the two unannounced games in response to speculation that Epic was shifting its focus away from games and toward support for the Unreal Engine. The two are inseparable, Sweeney said, with more than 100 Epic engineers working on the engine and more than 100 Epic game developers collaborating at any time.

So, what do you think System Wars? New Gears? New IP? Also, it seems they're obviously skipping PC again (if we don't include Fortnite, that is).

Gears belongs to Microsoft now, doesn't it?

I welcome new IP's if it's a new Gears game, then I'll pass.

I miss Gears being a big thing.

Don't care.

They are a game engine company.

Their games generally don't interest me, and never really have (not even Unreal Tournament). You would expect them to be cutting edge. Instead, I find their games to be incredibly bland - if not outright generic. Always have...maybe they will change this and come out of the gates with some crazy next-gen stuff, but I doubt it.

So whos publishing it ?

Well, yeah, but that shouldn't prevent developer from hinting.

They didn't mention anything about that.

Why do you say that and why's that in the thread title ?

Fortnite looks awesome, I can see myself putting a lot of hours into it if the F2P model turns out alright.

And I'm also looking forward to anything else they are making. They've said no UT, so that's a shame. But also no more Gears, that's great.

Several reasons:

- Epic skipped PC ports with their console titles.
- The article doesn't mention anything about the PC version.
- To add "system wars" value to the topic.

There you go.

Not mention of it not being on PC....

Would be cool to see Fortnight come to consoles.

Yeah, I also noticed that the article you are quoting mentions 'console game' a million times.

However, they didn't quote Epic saying it was a console game, so I'm pretty sure that is just the writer of the article spinning things.

Though Epic forgetting about PC gamers wouldn't be anything new, they are making a PC exclusive again (for now) and have been pretty positive about PC lately.

Console gamers port begging again, I see.

Also, unless this is exlclusive to either PS4 or Xbone, this is ALSO going to come to PC. That's just a given with 99% of third party developers, specially one pretty dman heaivly invested in PC gaming. Didn't they just announce SteamOS and Linux support for their engine?

Not to mention a PC exclusive title?

Epic not bringing the title to PC would be like Rockstar doing a PC exclusive.

hermits begging race starts now

Too late, consolites already started their usual begging for PC exclusives.

Well, hopefully this game will come to PC, eventually. A lot of things have changed at Epic since Tencent bought a stake in the company, and since CliffyB left.

Also, bringing a game to another platform largely depends on the publisher. Gears was MS's killer app. If that's the same case with this game, It's unlikely PC will get the port.

OK fair enough on that third reason I suppose then I'll just have to play devils advocate, lol.

The article doesn't mention anything about consoles either so it's up in the air especially considering that they mentioned pushing next gen graphics. That ambitious statement about pushing graphical limits doesn't mesh as well with console gaming as it does with PC.

As for Epic not making PC ports for GOW (after the 1st game), well, that's true but Microsoft would have payed them off and they would have been easily coerced since the sales for GOW 1 were terrible on PC. PC gaming/hardware sales and game sales thereoff are in a much stronger place nowadays especially for a simultanous multi-plat release and now they're no longer under Microsofts thumb anyway.

Finally, single platform games are become increasingly rare and, apart from SCSE (whatever) and certain Microsoft published games there isn't a real business decision not bring every game over to PC.

I want Gears of War 4.

Just focus on Unreal Tournament 4, the FPS genre is more stale than ever.

@ IgGy621985

I hope Activision or Ubisoft Publishes it... They would wana get it on as many platforms as possible. I can't even trust Epic to do that themselves.

It's coming to Xbox One.

Not a huge surprise, I suppose.

High end console game? Sounds like a PS4 exclusive.

True, but that's how MS does its business, most of the time. If Epic next title is published by MS, PC can forget about it, despite what MS says about "getting back to PC gaming".

I think Epic built their reputation as a "studio exclusive to *a platform*", so I believe they're working on another exclusive. Let's hope I'm wrong.

I don't think it's going to be Ubisoft. Ubisoft is working hard on self-publishing, so I can't see Epic collaborating with them. It's either gonna be Activision or EA... or MS/Sony deal. Epic doesn't have a capacity to publish titles themselves.

I am looking forward to Fortnite. Sounds interesting and I am dying to see how an Unreal 4 game runs on my PC. I think you're inferring too much from his comments if you think it means they won't be putting any of their potential new games out on PC. They're a 3rd party developer; unless Sony or Microsoft are the ones doing the publishing, it'd be financial suicide for them to arbitrarily limit the game to one platform.

100 engineers working on the engine? Wow... Now I can't wait to see this thing at full pelt.

@TheTruthIsREAL: definitely not Xbone, maybe WII-U

Yeah, I was wondering that as well. Is Epic still going with MS as a publisher, and if so, than a PC release is highly unlikely.

But then again, MS is also changing, MS also said some really positive things about PC lately XD

It all remains to be seen.

Gears is awesome, but its esclusive to MS. Im expecting a new big multiplat IP.

so that means it wont be on Xbox One?

@ IgGy621985

I know what you mean. They don't even like using other engines.

wrong developer

How are hermits enjoying GTA 5? With all the mods and 1080p/60fps graphics and all that jazz.

I personally cant wait to try Fortnite, i applied for the Alpha test.

Well they've already ruled out PC and Unreal Tournament, and Gears is with Microsoft, so I'm hoping for Unreal Championship 3.

Fat chance, but still.

@foxhound_fox:

Not what I meant exactly, but yes, I gotta get that sometime.

Where the hell it says that it is a console only title apart from misleading title .? They are pushing hardware to show true power of their engine and you think they gonna skip PC .? Come one man , they even went to Sony and M$ before the reveal of new consoles and told them to update their hardware because it can't handle UE4 at its full potential like High End PC but both companies refused to do so .

On other hand Fortnite is PC exclusive and Gears was Xbox exclusive , thanks to exclusivity deals with M$ . If any platform that is completely ignored by Epic is , Playstation . Not even a single Gears of War is on Playstation , not even first one . Fortnite is also not on PS4 . It's been a decade since Epic released anything on Sony's platform , yet they are "Skipping PC" .? Really .?

Since MS let them implement their GI lighting system into EPIC engine most likely at least one is gonna be an xbox exclusive

am I on the right website? lol

Unreal Tournament 3 was released on the PS3 in 2007 with a 8 month exclusivety deal on console before it appeared on the 360.

LOL! That's funny. The pc beggar is the top tier of begging. Proven with facts.

What a stupid discussion.

Consolites want Fortnite and DayZ

PC gamers want GTA V

Stop with this idiotic nonsense. You know ALL gamers want more games and want exclusive games from another platform. There is even a Cow petition for a game like Ryse.

I loved gears back in the day. Now however I just wish the series would end before they tarnish my fond memories.

no suprise the crappy looking f2p title gets released on the pc

They released Bulletstorm on Playstation :)