As more and more people are automated out of the economy through robotics and self-driving cars and other technologies, there will be a way to create value for other human beings online. There will be a virtual economy for exchanging value, goods and services, entertainment experiences, and all that.

Tim Sweeney

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In a concurrent world, imperative is the wrong default!

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We can take absolutely anything that runs on PC or high-end console and run it on Tegra...I didn't think that we'd be at this level on mobile for another 3 - 4 years.

Tim Sweeney

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Games like 'Fortnite' are way more fun to play with your real-world friends, and they're so accessible that anybody can play.

Tim Sweeney

your friends fun way

I believe that augmented reality will be the biggest technological revolution that happens in our lifetimes.

Tim Sweeney

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It turns out having a fast car is an excellent hobby when you're a workaholic because even when you don't have any free time, you can always drive to work.

Tim Sweeney

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The genre thing is overrated, and the platform decisions are overrated. It's what we see on 'Fortnite': so many of these gamers play on a variety of devices, so you can't say they're a mobile gamer or a console gamer. They're just a gamer.

Tim Sweeney

say see you play

I think it's necessary for VR to start with an early adopter audience that's highly engaged, and I think that means gamers. They're the ones who have the high-end hardware and the expertise and the patience to sort through the uncertainty of it all.

Tim Sweeney

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In many ways 'Fortnite' is like a social network. People are just in the game with strangers; they're playing with friends and using 'Fortnite' as a foundation to communicate.

Tim Sweeney

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When you search for Fortnite on iOS, you'll often get PUBG or Minecraft ads. Whoever bought that ad in front of us is the top result when searching for Fortnite. It's just a bad experience. Why not just make the game available direct to users, instead of having the store get between us and our customers and inject all kinds of cruft like that?

Tim Sweeney

result game you experience

Augmented reality will drive all things like chat, social networking, photos, videos, organizing data, modeling, painting, motion capture, and visual programming. Every form of computing will be combined together and unified in a single platform.

Tim Sweeney

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Everyone has friends that are limited to one platform and ecosystem, whereas what we've built with 'Fortnite' is a friends system that works across seven platforms. You can have friends across Xbox and PlayStation and PC.

Tim Sweeney

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I see a bright future for the future of computing and its implications for games.

Tim Sweeney

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'Fortnite' has, I think, the most positive gamer community that's ever emerged from a game at this scale. I think it's partly because of the great community and partly because of the tone set by the game.

Tim Sweeney

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At Epic, we succeed when developers succeed.

Tim Sweeney

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We see that as 'Fortnite' evolves, it's evolving beyond being a game.

Tim Sweeney

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Augmented reality will change the world more than a lot of other technologies. Traveling around to meet people will be much less important when you can stand in a room and chat with a virtual representation of a person that's so close to reality - it'll be a whole new level.

Tim Sweeney

you change people world

Fortnite, because of its visual style, it's widely acceptable to just about everyone. It's open up to a much wider audience than a realistic, military-style simulation.

Tim Sweeney

everyone just audience style

It turns out that the most powerful use of technology is to connect people together socially.

Tim Sweeney

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We feel the game industry is changing in some major ways. 'Fortnite' is a harbinger of things to come. It's a massive number of people all playing together, interacting together, not just playing but socializing.

Tim Sweeney

feel game together people

When gamers can play a game together with all of their friends, regardless of the devices they own, you have a much more compelling social experience. That applies to all multiplayer games.

Tim Sweeney

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