Thus far, Fortnite counts as the UE5-powered game on the market. A large number of game developers around the globe have since licensed the technology from Epic, with the likes of CD Projekt Red, The Coalition, Yager, Sumo Digital, and Gearbox Software announcing plans to use Unreal 5 on their next major projects. Microsoft studios The Coalition and Ninja Theory have already announced that their next projects are to be built on UE5.Epic Games showcased Unreal Engine 5 for the first time in May 2020, offering a glimpse at a desert-set tech demo running on the PlayStation 5. You can migrate projects across now using this build and see what works and what doesn’t – Epic does say that you should be able to upgrade seamlessly – and developers can start to prototype with the new technologies.
So why release an Early Access version? Well, it’s still useful for developers to see the effects of switching from UE4 to UE5. Epic expect to ship the full release of Unreal Engine 5 in early 2022, with memory, performance and quality improvements in tow, and will ship an Unreal Engine 5 update to Fortnite to demonstrate its readiness.
While developers can start using Unreal Engine 5, the engine is far from finished and is not really ready for the vast majority of game developers to enter into full production using it. You will still be able to create a PS4 game using Unreal Engine 5, but targeting PS5 or Xbox Series X will ramp up what is possible. It’s important to remember that this is a development build and running in the Unreal Engine 5 editor, instead of being an optimised build of a game that scales down its demands to match lower powered hardware.
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