When do we get a full documentation for Console developers?

General Feedback & Requests
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Hello,

I’m here yet again to request a real documentation for console developers! We are currently burning weeks of money and time because Epic Games does lock the fully documentation for consoles behind a massive paywall of a custom lizence.

Right now we struggly to implement PS5 Activities because we have absolutly zero reference on how to get it started and need to dig trough the engine and just try over and over again.

This is frustrating and in no way acceptable. Why is the documentation locked behind a paywall? Why is there zero support at all? Unreal Engine is getting worse and worse with every release and from our part we suggest every new developer now to avoid Unreal Engine because of zero support and no real documentation. Yeah there is a Getting started guid for each console but it does cover the very basics and everything required for certification is left out.

Look into your Console forums and see how normal indie developers struggel and burn money becaus Epic want’s to keep documentation and examples behind the UDN paywall.

If we contact Sony, Microsoft or Nintendo for a question thes redirect us to UDN where we don’t have access to and so we are always left without zero support. And every game from us so far suffered heavily from it because we needed way more time to get the tech stuff running because of no documentation and have far less time to optimize the game for consoles.

Get your sh*t together and release the documentation!!!

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Hi PolygonArt_WEN

I want to make sure it is known that console documentation is available for all approved UE console developers, and not behind any paywall. Within each of the private console forums that approved developers are granted access to, is a pinned post that hosts the available documentation for each platform.

Based on some of your specific statements, it sounds like you are aware of the available console documentation but believe it is not sufficient for development, and that is fair and valued feedback. Unreal’s documentation team is aware of requests like this one for expanded console documentation. Topics for PS5 and GDK are being prioritized, and they are now ensuring that PS5 Activities are among the list.

We welcome more documentation feedback and requests for console development; however since console access is under NDA, we ask that you please share the feedback for specific console features and processes within the private forum spaces.

Thank you