Epic is already working on Unreal Engine 6

[John Elden Ring]

During Unreal Fest Seattle 2024, Saxs Persson, the vice president of Epic Games, commented that the new technologies coming soon to the Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN) are part of the “foundation of Unreal Engine 6”.

We made the decision at Epic Games to move our first-party team to UEFN earlier to speed up feature development with the aim of creating better, more robust tools for everyone faster.

At the moment, it may seem that UE and UEFN are still a long way off, but the Verse, Scene Graph and API that we'll be releasing in December are all part of the foundation for the future of Unreal Engine 6.

The goal with Unreal Engine 6 will be to unite 'Unreal Engine 5' and the 'Unreal Editor for Fortnite' in a single engine, allowing millions of players to co-exist together in a single project, like a true metaverse.


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[mibu no ookami]

Unreal Engine - 1998
UE2 - 2001 (3 years later)
UE3 - 2006 (5 years later)
UE4 - 2014 (8 years later)
UE5 - 2022 (8 years later)

PS1 - 1995
PS2 - 2000
PS3 - 2006
PS4 - 2013
PS5 - 2020

Unreal Engine 6 needs to release around 2027-2030. It makes sense they're already working on it. Epic largely releases a new engine coinciding with the release of new consoles. UE5 was a bit late to the party and we're kind of seeing the results of that with a lot of games coming out still being in UE4.

 

[YeezyDude]

During Unreal Fest Seattle 2024, Saxs Persson, the vice president of Epic Games, commented that the new technologies coming soon to the Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN) are part of the “foundation of Unreal Engine 6”.



The goal with Unreal Engine 6 will be to unite 'Unreal Engine 5' and the 'Unreal Editor for Fortnite' in a single engine, allowing millions of players to co-exist together in a single project, like a true metaverse.


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Man I'm really looking forward to UE 6... I just wonder when it'll be out but I won't be surprised if it's not happening until the PS6 is out at least.

 

[Kokoloko]

It always feels we never get to the level of the tech demos shown at the start of each UE