Xbox silence at GDC isn't the full picture, says Epic exec

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Microsoft's next-gen silence at this week's Game Developers Conference has been dismissed as "more perception than reality," by Epic Games co-founder Mark Rein.

PlayStation 4 has been an ever-present discussion point at the San Francisco event, with Sony publicly fostering developer relations and even showcasing controllers at its booth.
However, Rein said that assumptions Microsoft didn't have a private presence at the conference "isn't true," and that on the public side it's simply a case of one platform holder having announced their new console and the other not.

"I think that's more perception than reality," Rein said of Microsoft's suggested absence from GDC.

"Microsoft has always been very developer centric with all of their platforms and that Sony is embracing that approach is wonderful. But I don't think it diminishes what Microsoft is doing.

"I don't think with developer relations anyone is trying to be public, it's just you're at GDC and Sony has the hardware to talk about, and Microsoft hasn't talked about it publicly yet. So I think it's just the difference between someone who can say the name of their console and someone who can't."

On the PS4 side Epic released an extended video of its Unreal Engine 4 'Elemental' demo running on the console.

Rein had plenty of positive things to say about Sony's open approach to developer relations:

"It's abundantly clear that PS4 is being driven as a collaboration between East and West, as opposed to a dictation from one side to the other," he said. "Developers are fully involved, activated, discussed and doing really cool collaborative things."

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neboPosted:

Wooble microsoft has been making me mad


M$ Has always made me mad.

FuturaPosted:

microsoft has been making me mad

CheeseStuffedPizzaPosted:

Microsoft has something they aren't telling the media.

diggitydog41Posted:

I'm going to die of laughter when xbox announces some console that brings you into the video game and is just sitting back laughing their asses of at the fact that sony released a shitty console compared to theirs

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biker687 first comment


This ain't Facebook

So does this mean what we have heard can't be true or its not confirmed


Moiros So what exactly.... is this saying.... about the xbox...


Read the article it explains what it means in it


i read the article and dont really get what its saying..

CearnsyPosted:

biker687 first comment


This ain't Facebook

So does this mean what we have heard can't be true or its not confirmed


Moiros So what exactly.... is this saying.... about the xbox...


Read the article it explains what it means in it

neboPosted:

Moiros So what exactly.... is this saying.... about the xbox...


they didn't announce anything about the new xbox

CrastifyPosted:

biker687 first comment


first really how old are you?

DanWelsh95Posted:

biker687 first comment


noob