Tim Sweeney: the metaverse is feasible, but Apple would try to thwart it

The metaverse is an idea that excites and captivates many users and video game companies and technology in general. While many believe it’s almost unachievable, for the Epic Games boss it’s entirely doable, but the only thing standing in the way is Apple.

Tim Sweeney, founder and CEO of Epic Games, was present at the Games Developer Conference 2023 (GDC 2023) and revealed a new way to play Fortnite: Allow users to unleash their creativity with highly sophisticated mode and creation tools, just like mods.

As part of the event, Fab was also revealed, an “open store” where assets and more creation tools would be found that would support “all games inspired by the metaverse.”

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Apple stands between Epic Games and its vision of the metaverse

GamesIndustry.biz He had the opportunity to chat with Sweeney and in it he talked about how the above is one more step that Epic Games takes to achieve the unified vision of the metaverse, which it considers to be something feasible and that; in fact, the video game industry is “the perfect place for an open system because there is no incumbent company that can dictate the terms.”

However, Sweeney says that the only obstacle in the way is Apple, since he considers that it is a company that seeks dominance and opposes the idea of ​​an open system to such a degree of using market power and hardware to achieve it.

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“They will either try to frustrate the metaverse or extract their profits. One or the other,” said Sweeney, who recalled that the Cupertino company does not make it easy to use elements external to its ecosystem and gave an example of what would happen in the metaverse. metaverse if I participated in it.

“So they can say, ‘You have to use Apple’s limited engine, you can’t do your own, you can’t use [el motor] unreal’. They can amend all the platform rules tomorrow and kill whatever everyone is doing, and that’s why we need [leyes] really robust antitrust. And that’s why we’re fighting hard,” Sweeney explained, alluding to Epic Games’ legal battle with Apple.

“The other challenges I think we can overcome,” Sweeney concluded.

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