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Don’t be fooled by the Unreal Engine 5 demo

What’s really going on with that Unreal Engine 5 reveal? Jeff Bakalar breaks down which gaming news you should be paying attention to, including rumors and everything there is to know about the upcoming next-generation consoles. This week it’s the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 and 2 remaster, a new Paper Mario game, hints inside…

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What’s really going on with that Unreal Engine 5 reveal? Jeff Bakalar breaks down which gaming news you should be paying attention to, including rumors and everything there is to know about the upcoming next-generation consoles.

This week it’s the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 and 2 remaster, a new Paper Mario game, hints inside Call of Duty Warzone about the next installment in the franchise, and a weird story about Gears of War 3 showing up on a PlayStation 3.

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77 Comments

  1. Shawn Z Savage

    May 22, 2020 at 4:48 pm

    This guy really doesn’t know how to pronounce “Mario”

    • Jeff Bakalar

      May 22, 2020 at 5:10 pm

      oh man no one’s ever said that get outta here

    • G Don

      May 22, 2020 at 10:43 pm

      You know he’s saying it how Mario himself says it right? lol Americans…

  2. Dave B.

    May 22, 2020 at 4:56 pm

    F’k XBox for life!

  3. Andrezzle 24

    May 22, 2020 at 5:17 pm

    MARRRRREEOOOOHHH

  4. Miguél

    May 22, 2020 at 5:17 pm

    Yo, do you still have a podcast?

    • Jimmy Clark

      May 22, 2020 at 8:53 pm

      He’s on the Giantbeastcast

  5. Don Bohn

    May 22, 2020 at 5:29 pm

    How do so many people pronounce Mario wrong when his catchphrase is literally it’s ah me Mario!

    • Jeff Bakalar

      May 22, 2020 at 6:17 pm

      Don

  6. Brock Didericksen

    May 22, 2020 at 5:32 pm

    Get some real problems, Jeff.

    • Jeff Bakalar

      May 22, 2020 at 5:55 pm

      I approve of this comment

  7. BoyOfVoid

    May 22, 2020 at 5:35 pm

    It means another generation of games capped at 30fps.

  8. Jose M. Leon

    May 22, 2020 at 5:53 pm

    Go watch Digital Foundry’s video ’bout it.

  9. Dustin Taylor

    May 22, 2020 at 6:34 pm

    The name for xbox suxks!!! PS5!!!

  10. Dustin Taylor

    May 22, 2020 at 6:36 pm

    Now this, This my friend is a great video!

  11. GenreOnline

    May 22, 2020 at 7:00 pm

    Any release date at all on Xbox Series X? I want to start preparing.

    • Omarion Brown

      May 23, 2020 at 6:04 am

      Bruh it’s holiday 2020

    • Omarion Brown

      May 23, 2020 at 6:05 am

      Same as PlayStation… Omg Microsoft gamers… I hate Xbox

  12. Rob

    May 22, 2020 at 7:06 pm

    Bakalar the only reason i’m still subbed to cnet

  13. Carlos Cardenas

    May 22, 2020 at 7:59 pm

    Give me Slim Jim man or give me death

  14. J. B.

    May 22, 2020 at 8:43 pm

    You probably shouldn’t be friends with a moron.

  15. wero liera

    May 22, 2020 at 8:48 pm

    Actual gameplay never Fucken looks like their stupid fake presentations they make

  16. Yas

    May 22, 2020 at 8:53 pm

    Bring back The 404!

  17. Henry Vang

    May 22, 2020 at 8:55 pm

    It can run on Xbox too, but it will have to be downsized and optimize Bc Xbox is trash

  18. Evan Ohashi-White

    May 22, 2020 at 8:59 pm

    Good video bro

  19. Owen Byrne

    May 22, 2020 at 9:32 pm

    Hard to pick a favorite, but really loved B Boy Document ’99 and its a bummer it won’t be coming back! I actually heard that a lot of the hip hop isn’t returning, unfortunately.

    • Trace Render 666 ANDRAS

      May 23, 2020 at 6:32 am

      Spotify 😉

  20. DCUnited327

    May 22, 2020 at 10:09 pm

    From Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 The High & Mighty ft. Mos Def & Mad Skillz “B-Boy Document ’99” (clean/radio edit of course to share with all audiences). Between Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater series and the Madden games (as well as some of the other EA Sports games) the gaming soundtracks produced some great use of new and old tracks for gamers to enjoy. These type of collaborations helped to blend music enjoyment into what it is today where folks don’t just subscribe to one genre or type of music.

    Love that you never surrender your way of saying Mario (though I do pronounce it “Maw-rio”) as it continues to show your originality and stick-to-it-iveness to convince the rest of us we’re saying it wrong.

    Got nothin’ but love for ya, Mr. Bakalar.

    Keep the posts and insights coming, and stay safe out there.

  21. Peter Allan Jones

    May 22, 2020 at 10:24 pm

    Police truck – Dead Kennedy’s

  22. monkeymanstones1

    May 22, 2020 at 10:47 pm

    Tony Hawk… Nope. Can’t get behind it. I’m 5’8″ and my inseam is only 27, so any lean by my upper body means I am bound for the floor (at 163Lbs, so not overweight but not “skinny”). I tried riding a skateboard many, many, many times but any lean to try and turn would give only 3° or so of turn (including when I rode with only the balls of my feet and toes on the board edge… 3°. Those things suck because they refuse to turn no matter how hard you press down on an edge and or lessen the nuts). The exact same happened when I leaned my body off the board as far as I could, yet still barely turned on all 8 of the boards I tried. I can snowboard well on a pipe board (your feet are equal distance from the front [R foot] and rear [L foot] of the board – But on a rearward positioned board things become more challenging) so what is it with skateboards that they absolutely refuse to cooperate? So in the early 1990’s I completely abandoned skateboards.
    So NO, I am not excited about such a game at all. Ride my 06 GSXR750 as often as I can (on those hanging my body off the edge, barely on the motorcycle at all results in an extremely hard and fast turn so long as I have the throttle open enough but still very quick when it’s not so open). I have 0% reason to care or show any excitement so I don’t care at all about a Tony Hawk game.

    • Luke Davis

      May 23, 2020 at 1:20 pm

      monkeymanstones1 drugs?

  23. Skywalker

    May 22, 2020 at 11:45 pm

    Boring video.

    • Amit Ezuthachan

      May 25, 2020 at 6:25 am

      True

  24. Dominique Brown

    May 23, 2020 at 12:59 am

    When I died bury me hang my balls on a cherry tree 🤣😂🤣 oh tony hawk

  25. Tim Hanshaw

    May 23, 2020 at 1:02 am

    If this was a channel with just Jeff, I would subscribe. I just don’t need the other CNET stuff.

  26. Robdissidy

    May 23, 2020 at 2:32 am

    Do you think we’ll be able to have 2 games open at one time 😳 sometimes I want to switch between gravity rush 2 and fortnite without closing it 👋🏽😪

    • ShitThe BedFred

      May 23, 2020 at 8:16 am

      We can already do that on PC. Oh and we already have ray tracing too. Plus free online play 🙂

    • Kieran J. Weir

      May 25, 2020 at 4:02 am

      @ShitThe BedFred don’t have persona 5 though

    • ShitThe BedFred

      May 25, 2020 at 6:21 am

      @Kieran J. Weir That game is a nonfactor for most people.

  27. Shadow flash Gamer

    May 23, 2020 at 3:05 am

    I can’t wait for PlayStation 5

  28. Camp Tull

    May 23, 2020 at 4:32 am

    Does anyone remember Xbox saying they were going to DRM for all their titles, and how hard they backpedaled when loyal fanboys jumped ship?

  29. Ashley H

    May 23, 2020 at 9:12 am

    Plays video

    My GPU: Covid is NOTHING compared to what I’m feeling

  30. appolospbvxr

    May 23, 2020 at 9:50 am

    Goldfinger – Superman, just reminds me of University and playing Tony Hawk pro skater on PS1 in my uni halls of residence

  31. Public School

    May 23, 2020 at 12:32 pm

    Who is Merrio?

  32. Luuk van Uden

    May 23, 2020 at 4:57 pm

    Selling the PS5 for $1000

  33. FPS Wizard

    May 23, 2020 at 9:10 pm

    Poor Zach lol. Put that dude on blast in front of millions

  34. JiTiAr35

    May 23, 2020 at 10:44 pm

    RATM – Guerilla Radio ??

  35. Rushan Ahmed

    May 23, 2020 at 11:03 pm

    Your chair looks cool, may I know the name please?

    • Silent Spectre

      May 25, 2020 at 3:18 pm

      It looks cool and all but can it so this?

  36. Tech Gaming

    May 24, 2020 at 5:08 am

    Could you bring back cnet update i love daily tech updates

  37. Andy Lam

    May 24, 2020 at 8:30 am

    Mayro!

  38. Chris S

    May 24, 2020 at 12:57 pm

    Unreal PC 1998. Anybody?

  39. Ayun Butt

    May 24, 2020 at 3:46 pm

    Why has CNET removed the other video it uploaded about unreal engine 5?

  40. John Manderson

    May 24, 2020 at 8:52 pm

    The answer is the incredible speed of the SSD in the PS5.

    • YoltsBp

      May 25, 2020 at 1:21 pm

      If that was so then a laptop with a gpu weaker than i rtx 2060 couldnt out perform the ps5. Yeah they ran this demo on a laptop that out performed the ps5 lmfao

    • Nick Brennan

      May 26, 2020 at 9:49 am

      @YoltsBp idiot that was debunked already as a video of the demo running on the laptop. Try harder troll…

  41. Jensen Raylight

    May 25, 2020 at 2:25 am

    sorry, but your opinion is misleading, and straight up false,
    you are biased toward xbox x, and you make a heavy opinionated video
    i guess CNET are not a trustworthy media after all
    i’m a gamedev
    UE5 choose ps5 because ps5 is the fittest machine to run the UE5 Beast,
    ps5 can maximize the engine potential
    you know what? even if xbox run UE5 game, the quality are not the same like in the demo,
    just because you make your game with UE5 doesn’t mean it have the same quality across all console platform
    in UE4, you can toggle a few button to minimize or maximize the performance
    (lower effect, lower lightning quality, lower pixel, lower texture)
    if they choose xbox for their presentation, they need to do a lot of compromise,
    they probably won’t be able to showcase nanite and lumen with the highest quality on console,
    Unreal team are full of Smart and intelligent people
    nobody in the right mind want to choose a bad driver to win the race

    • YoltsBp

      May 25, 2020 at 1:24 pm

      Are you serious? If so how did a laptop out perform the ps5 with a gpu weaker than a desktop rtx 2060? Look it up that ssd isnt making magic.

    • Xavier Magnus

      May 25, 2020 at 6:46 pm

      They said it will run fine on Xbox, probably didn’t mention because it was ps5s show. But the ssd definitely matters and is key. Also gamedev.

    • Kathode N

      May 26, 2020 at 4:50 am

      @YoltsBp It didn’t. That was a video.

    • jason freeman

      May 26, 2020 at 9:17 am

      You’re an idiot if you think an SSD is doing more for games then higher RAM bandwidth, more compute units, more teraflops, faster CPU and the fact xbox gets access to native RTX cores and DirectX12 Ultimate no SSD is gonna pull that weight that much.

    • Jensen Raylight

      May 26, 2020 at 2:04 pm

      ​@jason freeman Do your research first please before calling someone idiot,
      stop treating your own assumption as a fact

  42. CurryThe GOAT OF MANKIND THE PAPI of RAGE!

    May 25, 2020 at 5:59 pm

    how much dose microsoft pay you?

  43. Maxx Koggen

    May 25, 2020 at 7:14 pm

    Did he just say Merio?

  44. Jintaro Kensei

    May 26, 2020 at 12:37 am

    2 minutes about how UE5 isn’t exclusive, which only an idiot would think…

    • Steve Melgoza

      May 26, 2020 at 10:20 am

      You’d be surprised

    • The Fox army

      May 26, 2020 at 7:59 pm

      Yes for real. The title was real annoying

  45. George Cristian

    May 26, 2020 at 3:58 am

    Why Epic choose PS5 and not Xbox? It’s because of the popularity of the console. Maybe Sony already made the devkit available to developers earlier than Xbox. Most of Sony studios make games only for ps5. Microsoft studios make games for Xbox and and Pc.
    So Sony wins the contest with the most exclusive games. And boy what games :))).
    Xbox is great too in many ways but Microsoft don’t give the attention that this console deserves.

    • jason freeman

      May 26, 2020 at 9:13 am

      Its marketing there’s no choosing lol sony sent them a bunch of money and they made a presentation. You realize Unreal has been working with Microsoft for many many years. I mean what do you think HellBlade and Gears of War uses as a engine.

  46. Pranjal Bhattacharjee

    May 26, 2020 at 4:36 am

    The ue5 demo was running at 1440p 30fps on ps5 but on pc it was running at 1440p 40fps……this was mentioned in a post by epic games but the post was later removed……

  47. SpyFr

    May 26, 2020 at 10:37 am

    Euh on avait bien tous compris que c’était une démonstration sous couvert de partenariat et que ce n’étaient pas des technos réservées à la PS5…
    Mais bon, ça peut être utile de le rappeler pour ceux qui survolent le sujet.

  48. Wayne Mabry

    May 26, 2020 at 12:07 pm

    Awesome vid, whos Merry-O?

  49. TECH-VS-TECH

    May 26, 2020 at 3:24 pm

    I said it before it is impressive and pushes the Memory Bandwidth and textures stream to the Max!But can it give us a God of War 3 level of effects with this level of fidelity ! Titans and all!

  50. Nathan Harris

    May 26, 2020 at 4:44 pm

    This guy must be a veteran developer who knows what he’s talking about.

  51. duchovny04

    May 26, 2020 at 5:48 pm

    Thanks.. this was real eye opener.. now i know they were juz overhyping the ps5 using open platform developer

  52. Iron Gate

    May 26, 2020 at 7:30 pm

    Dude why dont you just shorten the video and say. Xbox can do this too. Sounds like your’re a disgruntled Xbox fan that irritated that Xbox wasn’t mentioned. Any gamer worth their spit knows this. Its obvious.

  53. Gundam Nation

    May 26, 2020 at 7:30 pm

    PS5 first game will be developed using Unreal Engine 5 and yes it’s already being used by developers..just not the public yet

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