Samtidigt som Gamescom pågår en mindre utvecklarkonferns i form av europeiska Game Developers Conference. Epic har haft ett anförande där, där man avslöjade att man vill ha jämförbara konsoler nästan generation.
"Last generation we saw just about everyone was roughly the same class of computation except for Wii of course, but for cutting edge PCs and the other platforms you could make a game and port it across.", sade Mike Capps på Epic.
"The last thing we want to see, though it would probably be great for Sony, is to have their platform a hundred times better than than Xbox. Because then I can't ship on both.", avslutade han.
Epic har visat sig ha inflytande tidigare och är de som slutligen fick Microsoft att peta in 512 megabyte RAM i Xbox 360 mot de ursprungligen planerade 256. Capps säger: "We went to Microsoft and said - please please please, you need 512 to be competitive, you need 512 to be successful. And it cost them a billion dollars to do it but it's why they were competitive this generation."
