Fortnite will be one of the launch games for PS5 and Xbox Series X

Epic Games has announced that Fortnite, the Battle royale most popular in the world, be one of the games that will be part of the launch catalog for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series Xconsoles next-gen Sony and Microsoft that will arrive in stores before the Christmas campaign of this 2020.

Epic Games has not given more details

about the next-gen console version of Fortnite nor has it shown us what the game looks like on these new platforms. We also do not know if the versions for the new generation consoles will have the function crossplay although we also have no reason to think that it will not have this characteristic.

An interesting detail that we have been able to know is that Fortnite reach PS5 and Xbox Series X with the Unreal Engine 4 but that, in the middle of 2021, Epic Games plans update the game to Unreal Engine 5, their new graphics engine that they have presented today at the Summer Game Fest event organized by Geoff Keighley.

Unreal Engine 5, the engine for the next-gen to arrive in 2021

Continuing with Unreal Engine 5, Epic Games has shown the first real-time demo of the graphics engine at Summer Game Fest, letting us see how sport this new engine on a PlayStation 5

and making clear its new characteristics, among which Lumen stands out, a new global dynamic lighting solution that immediately reacts to the scene and changes in light. In addition, in the demo we have also been able to see other of Epic Games' own technologies such as the Chaos physics and destruction engine.

PS5 and Xbox Series X will arrive at the end of the year

In case there was still any doubt, both Sony and Microsoft have come to the fore today to reaffirm that their consoles next-gen They will go on sale at the end of this 2020 so there is no risk of delay due to the coronavirus.