Vid det här laget har väl alla sett Epics oförskämt snygga DirectX 11-demo Samaritan (annars finns den här nedan), som visar den senaste och troligen sista uppdateringen av deras Unreal Engine 3-grafikmotor. Nu säger Epic till Develop Online att demot är tänkt som ett kärleksbrev till konsoltillverkarna för att få dem att snabba på utvecklingen av nya konsoler genom att visa hur spelen borde se ut.
"The DX11 demo itself, that's our love letter to hardware manufacturers. We're able to give people another road map. If companies are building new consoles - and, who knows, I mean Apple just released an iPad that's nine times the power of its predecessor.", säger Epic-bossen Mark Rein.
"If Apple continues on this scale, they'll have a device that can run this in a couple of years. But, that demo we've shown is aimed at the game console makers. We're telling them that this is the big leap that we think justifies that new piece of hardware you're going to build, and we're telling them that this is what we need next-gen consoles to be capable of, because we can't build a more powerful PC than the one that's running the DX11 demo!", avslutar han med ett skratt.
