Epic Games announced yesterday that Sony has invested $250 million in the company (pending regulatory approval, of course). Some on Reddit and elsewhere have also suspected that the acquisition may have some connection to the Epic CEO's rave reviews of the PlayStation 5, which were announced earlier this year.

One of PlayStation 5's biggest selling points is its fast SSD storage: we called it a potential "secret weapon" when the PS5's overwhelming specs were announced in March, and in the Unreal Engine 5 tech demo in May, Sweeney spoke even more enthusiastically about SSDs. He described the PS5's storage technology as "god-level" and said its speed would allow for a level of graphic fidelity that traditional hard drives could not match

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Regarding the timing of the investment, some have suspected that PlayStation 5 was heavily promoted to encourage Sony's investment, but Sweeney responded to such suggestions on Twitter by saying that serious discussions with Sony began only after the Unreal Engine 5 Sweeney responded to such suggestions on Twitter by stating that serious discussions with Sony only began after the Unreal Engine 5 demo was finished.

In his response, he also linked to a May tweet in which he stated that everything Epic has been working on with Sony has been publicly announced.

He also noted that while $250 million is undoubtedly a lot of money, it pales in comparison to Epic's overall value, which VentureBeat put at $17.86 billion yesterday, and Sweeney's personal net worth, which Bloomberg put at over $7 billion last year. One must also keep in mind that it is miniscule; Epic presumably does not need Sony's lunch money so much that Sweeney is willing to risk his professional reputation.

Thanks, USgamer.