The now famous ‘comparative video creator’ ElAnalistaDeBits dedicates his latest in-depth video to Fortnite Chapter 4 and the extraordinary flexibility of Unreal Engine 5 in managing a range of platforms so wide as to embrace the smartphones, PCs and the last two generations of consoles.
The comparison video made by the youtuber in fact shows the appearance of the new Fortnite Chapter 4 map on mobile devices, Nintendo Switch, PS4 and PlayStation 5, thus giving us the opportunity to understand the enormous potential of Unreal Engine 5 and its most advanced iteration, EU 5.1.
As evidenced by the comparative shots on Fortnite Chapter 4 with Lumen and Nanite, version 5.1 of the new Epic Games graphics engine transforms the scenarios of the free battle royale of the American publisher and developer by drawing on the increased computational power of PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S.
At the same time, the flexibility of Unreal Engine 5 offers the US company the opportunity to improve thelook and feel and performance of Fortnite on systems with limited hardware: only over time will we understand if the versatility of UE 5 will contribute to making it the engine preferred by multiplatform developers, and this not to mention the efforts made by the software houses that have already adopted Unreal Engine 5 to give shape to their latest generation video games .
In this regard, for further information we advise you to read our special on the best games in development on Unreal Engine 5, from Hellblade 2 a Wukong.