True, same for the GPU requirement. Interesting coincidence, my flatmate upgraded his desktop PC just a few days ago with a intel quad core and 8GB RAM after playing on a dual core and 4 gig for years, as well as with a Radeon 4870 HD, which he didn't switch out and isn't even sure yet if he will, and I did so far consider his machine higher low end at least. According to the UE4 requirements he still falls under low-spec NOW after the upgrade, which is really kinda weird to me. My own PC which I consider to be capable of nearly every current game on high settings isn't even higher than these minimum specs, at least on the CPU/RAM side of things, which is really kinda shocking to me.

the development environment needs those specs. the games done with it can run on lower end hardware and mobile devices.

i guess that is what they mean.

Yes, maybe.

I just wanted to say that the editor runs on low fps on my i5 2.5GHz notebook with a HD7670M, especially when all effects are on, and I have not tested yet a compiled exe with low graphics settings. probably there are tools to refine settings, especially because of the mobile platforms, whose support are not fully finished now. Mac and Ios is in an early state. I will try it as I have time, by checking the example projects for a couple of genres (smaller ones like platformer, and 2 bigger ones for FPS, RTS). I will share them with you.
but defining a min system requirements is a kind of estimation, you can start to develop a bigger project knowing you need years, so imo they are right in case of their main target segment, but made a large step to expand their market towards the indie developers and hobbyists. a few years ago I found UDK system requirements too high, now it is fine, but smaller engines are more hobbyist friendly in this area, having at least one stage technology lag, resulting in lower achievable possible quality, which is not unacceptable in many cases.

That sounds like IT-Porn^^
@Sivan have you tried this already?

no, I could spent only a little time with ue4, everything is very new, so there are a lot of things to read and see and try... but thanks for the hint, sounds very cool

just found that benchmark.

I used the highest settings, except for antialiasing (just FXAA).
...runs really smooth on my (except for the cpu) medium system.


Edit: stupid me misread ue3 for ue4, sorry for that

that´s pretty striking... Unity announced the new version 5 with some cool stuff but the same price calculation as the old versions... and of course ... some of the really very serious users of unity start to open their mind to compare the advantage and disadvantage of both core engines (not only the poor 14 years old fan boys).

...and it is some kind of funny... it seems that unreal provocatively copies the style, workflow of the uniy editor and even the main theme of the unity page.

yeah it is much more unity like now than any other engine...
Esenthel engine also stepped onto the path of subscription (15USD/month), but apparently it cannot be canceled as flexibly as ue4, valid subscription is checked on each editor startup. and source code access subscription is much more expensive. http://www.esenthel.com/?id=store (users are not very happy)

at the moment in ue4 I always get an editor crash after the shooter example game startup, and in some other cases (maybe my old non-update-able driver is the issue), but at Epic they really seem to work on bug-fixing of all crash reports.
so currently it is cool to get familiar with this engine to get prepared for a future game project, because it is full with great stuff, but imo it requires some time to make it really solid on all platforms (it runs best currently under windows). so maybe later I will give them another month... but maybe Cryengine could also make some surprises...

if you are interested I could compile 1-2 test levels to see some end results. the realistic rendering demo is great (okay, 2 expert developers worked on it for 3 weeks full time).

Hello

I purchased a software magazines

Even admitting that some commercial games have been developed using Unity3d , They claim that a game UE4 vs Unity3d does not simply make sense, UE4 playing in an other League
No explanation, s top down claim

What do youn think ?