Quote Originally Posted by Bolivar View Post
Vivi's statement, that this generation practically ran on Unreal Engine 3, is in no way an exaggeration. The list of games that have used it is staggering. I do think they're going to have more competition next time around, though, with a slew of "next-gen ready" engines already available, such as Frostbite 2 (already being used at EA), Cry Engine 3, and id Tech 5.
I was actually looking at that list when I made my post. There were even more games than I knew about (somehow I actually wasn't aware that XCom ran on UE 3). I wouldn't say they'll necessarily have more competition this time around. Well, I guess they will technically because Frostbite wasn't really around when UE3 was released, but the other two did had previous variants available.

Mind you, most of them weren't very popular for various reasons and have a lot of catching up to do with Unreal in both market penetration, ease of use, etc. I'm not liking id Tech 5's chances though after the tech issues Rage had. Odds are it'll mostly be used internally at Zenimax, and the same might end up being true of Frostbite and EA. Epic's got a really strong lead in the market and what I've seen of the tools in UE4 is pretty impressive.