Epic Games: We Can Do Crazy, Ridiculous Stuff With PS4

Epic Games VP Mark Rein is so extremely pleased with the route Sony’s taken with PS4, and the power it packs underneath it’s belt, that he’s praising the console as “a perfect gaming PC”, with ”super convenient” features such as the ability to play games while they’re downloading and perform background updates. According to Rein, because of Sony’s decisions with the upcoming console, developers “will hit the ground running”.

Rein shared his thoughts in a recent interview with CVG:

I think it’s a very smart move on Sony’s behalf to build this sort of enhanced PC architecture and then put so much in it.

Let’s not forget it has 16 times the memory we had in PlayStation 3 – that’s not insignificant. Knowing that every machine has that… we can do crazy, ridiculous stuff with that.

The other exciting thing is that… when you think about Windows, even Windows for most people is tied to about 2GB of addressable memory space. This really opens up beyond what most PCs can do, because most PCs are running a 32-bit version of Windows.

It’s like giving you the world’s best PC.

The kind of stuff that they announced that they’re doing, the level of convenience and things like that… they’re making a really perfect gaming PC.

I’ve always said that the things in the next-generation that aren’t just brute force hardware are all about the service and simplicity of the experience – the things that make it as fun and easy to get a PS4 game as it is to get a game on your iPad.

Although Rein wasn’t allowed to talk about Microsoft’s next Xbox, he said he was confident the console will be in line with PS4′s offerings.