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E3 2012: Square Enix Kicks Off The Next-Gen Race With Luminous

While everyone patiently waits for the demo of the Unreal 4 Engine, which promises to show off the next-generation of visuals for consoles and PC’s, Square Enix decided to kick proceedings off with a display of their own new engine. Introducing Luminous, Square Enix’s step into the next-gen.

Square Enix decided to show off their new toy with a little tech demo named Agni’s Philosophy, which can be seen above. Everything in this tech demo is apparently running in real-time, which was reiterated by the Square Enix representatives during the conference when they unveiled the demo as the “FINAL FANTASY REALTIME TECH DEMO”. It looks absolutely exquisite, especially when it comes to those small details such as the old man’s beard and those millions of little red sparks flying around.

Will Unreal 4 be on the same level of quality, or have Square Enix just pulled off the biggest surprise of E3? Make your move Epic.

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  • Trebzz

    So there are next gen PC’s as well? I just thought those guys upgrade there graphics cards and BOOM lol

    • Alessandro Barbosa

      There’s no “next-gen” per say for PC’s, because as you said we just upgrade when we want. This is just the “next-gen” of visuals that we can look forward to. Right now this is only possible on extremely powerful PC’s :P

    • AG_Sonday

      What the gen is capable of is basically determined by what consoles are capable of since this is where most of the money is made and most games come out across PC, Xbox and PlayStation so they have to meet the lowest common denominator i.e. consoles.

      Essentially this is what you can expect from teh PS4 and Xbox 720.

  • GJ Ram

    My goodness.. Is this REAL TIME demo.. Haven’t seen this much of a perfection so far.. When the trailer starts its all pretty.. but still as the chaotic details add on it seemed a little clumsy… Overall.. quality of wat was rendered was truly laudable and it is definitely a challenge for Unreal Engine 4 to surpass this in REAL TIME..

  • AG_Sonday

    That was simply…beautiful. 

  • Timothy

    The graphics will never be that good on next-gen, they will be close and they will be capable of a lot of what is seen but will still be incapable of reproducing graphics like this. That’s the point of a tech-demo, ask what if. There are simply too many pixels, polygons and vertexes in that demo. A game would have far less detail than what we see here. 15 GTX 690′s would take hours to render the entire thing, no console, no PC will ever match that for a time to come.