Unreal Engine 4

Xbox One and PS4 Can’t Provide Full Unreal Engine 4 Experience

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In 2011, veteran gaming firm Epic Games created an impressive graphics demo for the Unreal Engine 3. Although written for PC hardware, the demo, called “Samaritan,” was Epic’s attempt to show console makers what the next generation of gaming performance should bring. Epic estimated that 2.5 teraFLOPs would be required from the next generation consoles in order to provide the desired level of detail at 30 frames per second with a 1080p resolution. In 2011, it took three top-of-the-line NVIDIA…

Wii U Frostbite 3

EA: Next-Gen Frostbite 3 Games Won’t Run on Wii U

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Nintendo’s thus far underwhelming Wii U console may have recently hit another stumbling block: next generation EA games powered by the Frostbite 3 engine won’t be coming to the Japanese company’s console due to performance issues. EA DICE technical director Johan Anderson revealed to fans on Twitter Monday that the company ceased development of Frostbite 3 for the Wii U after Frostbite 2 tests yielded “not too promising results.” @mutedpenguin FB3 has never been running on WiiU. We did some…