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Epic Games runs a Unreal Engine 4 demo on a Nexus 5

Mobile gaming has come a long way since the introduction of Angry Birds and Fruit ninja , The mobile game industry is now a million dollar industry where new games as well as old pc titles appear in touch screen format in all major platforms ,but even with all the new technology , Mobile devices have always been a few years behind their console counterparts .But as technology
moves on , we see the gap getting smaller and smaller , and as mobile chipsets get more capable each year ,the need to show off their capabilities get even higher , and so the popular game development company Epic Games , unveiled a little teaser of their highly anticipated Unreal Engine 4 on a device with a slightly old processor . The device is none other than the Nexus 5,which when it was rolled out , was one of the fastest devices around , but in less than a year,
Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 801 which bests the Snapdragon 800 found on the Nexus 5 and many other phones of last year.Although it is no longer the king of the hill, the processor is still one of the fastest  around , and this combined with the Unreal engine 4's user friendly programming tweaks ,and the Nexus's stock android , made the device the best candidate for the job .The demo is a real time rendering scene showcasing the high  capabilities of both the devices graphic and cpu prowess and the unreal engine 4's relative easiness to code for specific hardware .

While it might only be a real-time demo on a smartphone , this might actually be just the first step in closing the gap between mobiles and their bigger console counterparts in the near future .

Source - GforGamers


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