Oh, there goes any credibility for their view on next gen hardware

Majority of gamers don't care. Release U5 engine already

Sony: Epic Game Store is a masterpiece

Everyone's takeaway is "oh, that's why Epic has been praising Sony and PS5 so much recently." Which, fair enough. But what I fail to see is how it's a bad thing for a platform to be intimately associated with one of the premier game engine studios. Putting aside all PR nonsense, it seems like a really good thing that will result in better Unreal optimization for Sony than they would have gotten otherwise.

Bring back Paragon... pretty please.

The amount of cringe in the comment section made me make my own comment.
Investment means Sony will get back more than 250million back if Epic's stocks are gonna go up from this point on.
My assumption Sony is betting on UE5 and how it will affect gaming like UE4 did or even more.

Investment =/= Paid

I might get migraine from reading these comments.

Now it all makes sense lmfao

Looks like Sony and Microsoft playing monopoly and acquiring as much as they can

Gears of War was all they really had and they sold that to Microsoft, that could've made Sony some serious money but Microsoft likely heard it was about to get ported and offered Epic an insane amount of money they couldn't refuse in the end. But Sony spending 250 for only 1.4% is nothing, why bother?

And in 2015 MS bought Havok which is used industry wide. What's the big deal? It's not like Unreal 5 is going to be exclusive to Playstation. The stuff people argue over is amazing sometimes.

250mil for 1.5% make no sense I'm mean tencent have 40% ownership and have no say in epic games decision. What does Sony get out of this idk marketing rights I suppose.

It was clear to those of us who noticed how Epic kept coming out and lavishing PS5 only with praise...was like they had a deal in place...what do ya know haha.

So, to all the people claiming the only reason Eric was saying something positive about PS5 is because Sony invested in them, should be ok, saying the only reason any dev said something positive about MS is because MS invested in them or paid them.

Hahaha! Oh man this explains so so much! I mean Tim just won't stop fellating Sony and now we know why.

how does an investment constitute a bribe, are fanboys so desperate to disregard Tim sweeney coz of this just to make themselves sleep better at night? very sad...you can use this as your excuse to satisfy yourselves, doesn't mean what he said was wrong,other devss said the same thing and when the games are out y'all are gonna see it as clear as day.

Damn that was unexpected.
We can expect some PS5 exclusive content from now on.
Edit: well the UE5 demo kinda teased it

Isn't Fortinite making Billions each year? What the point of a puny 0.25 Billion?? I know for us it's a lot of money, but for Epic it's literally a drop in the bucket. The best part would be to have cross-buy between PC and PS5 via the Epic Game Store.

Good for Sony. Another revenue stream 👍🏽

Like Epic needs the $$ greedy fucks. Tim Sweeney net worth 4.5 billion yeah he really needs more $$. Fuck him.

I guess any new PS5 exclusive game that uses UE5, will find it's way on PC via Epic Games Store. Oh well, more money for PlayStation, seems the narrative has been changed indeed and we may now have go say PS5 console exclusive more often than many would like.

Oh well, was bound to happen.

It all make sense now

Bad move. The last thing anyone wants is more Fortnite.

250 approvals from Tim, so much for non-biased comments!

This is good news, I am excited to have epic on your side going into the next gen is not a small feat.

One could argue that epic would be bias, but invest and golden handshake are two different things. 250 million investment is nothing they got like 400 million from fortnight in april. Lets wait and see rather.

Very Interesting.

Well smart move since because fortnite lol. Why sony has invested so much into cod too. Like mcsft investing a ton in minecraft, the revenue will come in.

Anyone who has an ounce of business sense knows this is great movie/investment for Sony. Adding another revenue stream is always helpful.

This is a great move for Sony. The opportunity for Microsoft to make the same investment was there but for whatever reason they didn't bite (perhaps Tim Sweeny doesn't like Xbox).

I hope it leads to a timed exclusive of Fortnite 2 to PlayStation or making it so Xbox is forced to play higher licensing fees that'll make Xbox exclusives utilizing Unreal cost prohibitive. Either way I'm happy to see Sony being hyper aggressive and looking to muscle Xbox out of the industry with timed exclusive deals and buying stakes from the industry's most successful middleware producer.

Yep, I bet we are going to get a fortnight movie from sony now and it will make millions from all the little brat kids that will watch it.

Hah no secret deal huh Tim. Man that was phony. I usually don’t get offended by this trivial stuff but he straight up lied. They were so overt the top with their praise of the system it just screamed Deal. My thing is what the hell does Epic need that money for Fortnite prints money so much they’ve been able to do whatever they want. Why would they even need this deal. Epic has been very PS biased this gen. Paragon never made its way to Xbox before it flamed out. I’ll never understand why a 3rd party developer of that size would launch a potential platform on just one console. SF6 and Capcom I’m looking at you.

The biggest thing I don’t understand about Epic being so in bed with Sony this time around is that Sony barely uses Unreal. Almost all MS studios use it! Business is funny stuff. I guess this means more Sony first party’s will put it to use.

Wait a second, I thought Sony was broke?

This is good news for Epic and Sony. Sony makes money and probably makes sure unreal engine is thoroughly invested in PS5. Clearly, Epic Will enjoy the money investment.

Im really surprised Microsoft didn't do this.

I can't imagine it being a very large stake. It does say minority stake, but with Fortnite alone cashing in over 300million at its peak (2018), this is probably a very small number.

i wonder, what does Sony get from investing in EPIC? i mean, this is ALL of Sony investing in EPIC, not just PlayStation, or even just SIE. maybe their Fate/Grand Order games will now change to UE...

Well now. That’s more than they paid for Insomniac, but less than what Fortnite made in April! Funny business, this is.

If it’s for future IPs I won’t complain but if they plan to just get a piece of the Fortnite pie then I’m definitely against it, especially if it stifles single player experiences in the future from Epic

I dont see why you guys are suprised. Don't you think its normal, just like other devs who praises MS but only work on MS exclusive game. The only difference here is other devs who praised xbox work only exclusively for MS and epic is a third party. Though i dont care about epic, and i think fortnite sucks and i also hate epic store, this is the only credible devs who knows what the hardwares capable off. You cant expect AAA third party dev to talk about consoles and whos better because they want to became neutral.

remember when it was just Epic wanting to side with Sony out of the kindness of their hearts?

Oh no!! I guess sony would have to increase their ps5 exclusive game deals to further prove their claims.

Time you went ahead and bought WB ..MS

Nobody pays $250 MILLION for something insignificant. That is a significant investment. Something tells me that this will comeback to bite MS

Very wise decision from Sony.

That's a big partnership, this is a huge win for Sony! Glad to see Sony on the forefront of advancing the state of art and technology for video games this will no doubt mean we are going to see the best looking next gen games on Playstation.

That's a good investment.

The thing that most of you dont get it is that Sony is not paying for advertisement, they paid for epic to take advantage of all the tech the PS5 can offer and with that make the industry move forward... That is why they said that they had to rewrite some lines of code to accommodate the new tech and in the processes Epic talked about it and I can see that even Epic was blown away not because they were paid but because maybe it's legit... We want games and game engines to move forward for them to take advantage of it, Sony know that they first party will take advantage of the full system regardless of anything... but third party devs will take advantage because Sony made the engines evolve in some shape or form.

It's my take from this.

Here come the PS5 exclusive Unreal engine features. Smart move. Considering Microsoft was once very close with Epic...well...

The smoke behind the mirrors.