Tim Sweeney: ‘Refreshing consoles every several years keeps everyone happy’

Tim Sweeney: 'Refreshing consoles every several years keeps everyone happy'

By Emma Boyle

As founder and CEO of Epic Games and one of the minds behind the Unreal series of game engines, Tim Sweeney is one of the most recognizable and revered names in game development today.

You can’t work and be so successful in an industry like gaming for as long as Sweeney has without forming some opinions on how things ought to work and how they might look in the future. Fortunately, he’s not shy about sharing them.

At this year’s Gamescom we got the chance to sit down with Sweeney who was giving a keynote at the more developer focused Devcom running at the same time.

We took the opportunity to chat with him about the current gaming landscape and how it’s likely to evolve over the next few years. Our conversation covered everything from the Nintendo Switch, Xbox One X and the current debate over cross play to VR, AR, AI and the inevitable rise of the metaverse.

On the first page of our interview you’ll find Sweeney’s thoughts on the current state of gaming while on the second you’ll find the part of our conversation where we gaze slightly further into the future.

We discussed a wide number …read more

Source:: techradar.com – Gaming

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