As for the history of video games, the passage of time allows us to investigate the past and from time to time reveal details or situations that would never have crossed our minds at that time. One of those episodes was shown today with video material that claimed to account for Gears of War 3 running in a PlayStation 3 development kit. Well, after the controversy, Epic Games had no other choice but to speak on the subject and we already know what happened.
After the social media user and himself named former hacker PixelButts leaked the video with Gears of War 3 running on the Sony console development kit, the comments were swift and attention turned to focus. at Cliff Bleszinski, director of the franchise at the time, who noted that he was almost certain it was a bogus thing.
https://twitter.com/therealcliffyb/status/1262798827913961473
However, hours later, Epic Games responded to the leak and Stephen Totilo, a journalist for Kotaku, shared information from the statement sent by the company that reads as follows: “This footage is a by-product of Unreal Engine 3’s internal testing process. from Epic, which was used in both Gears and the Unreal Tournament, but was never part of any actual product work for the PlayStation 3. ”
Button prompts are still the 360's. And surely some people will be skeptical, but multiple sources familiar with the hack say this is the real deal. The person who uploaded the footage showed me a short clip of it booting up from a PS3 devkit. Note that the icon is UTIII's pic.twitter.com/zBGUfbNK0p
— Stephen Totilo (@stephentotilo) May 19, 2020
Thus, the PixelButts leak has revealed a small part of the development process and the tests carried out by Epic Games back then while working with Unreal Engine 3, which led them to test the graphics engine and its components on a different platform. to Xbox 360 or PC. Hence, as the previous information refers, this build cannot run on any commercial version of PS3.
What’s your opinion about it?
