Its been brought up a lot on reddit, but basically Fox Engine is hard to program for, and most young people these days are trained to work on Unreal Engine, so no new hires at Konami have to be trained to use a proprietary engine (which can take months).

Engines also have to be constantly updated to keep up with the times (expensive), whereas Epic is updating Unreal so other companies don't have to (though they are allowed to assist if they so chose to).

Yeah, I loved Fox Engine, and wished Konami kept investing it in, but do we really expect them to make the right choice? Of course we can't, so they serve more Unreal Engine slop.

@Choco

I really can't say if FOX Engine was hard to program for.

I mean ... the engine was even easily swappable into Pro Evolution Soccer, iirc.

"Yeah, I loved Fox Engine, and wished Konami kept investing it in, but do we really expect them to make the right choice? Of course we can't, so they serve more Unreal Engine slop."

You totally pick me up here.

I even claim Kojima and his tech team had designed FOX Engine for current-gen hardware back in the day, hence PS4 could only run it at 720p when TPP was released.

I mean what could be better for a studio to run and keep improving its own engine from graphics, sound to lighting.

FOX Engine was so damn powerful, you could clearly see the future potential it had stored.

ID Tech 8 would most likely work with MGS Delta, I'm pretty sure Bethesda would license it out to Konami.
If that were the case the game would be performing as well as Indiana Jones did.

Which always leads to that unspoken ... thing ... that studios seem to not "be able" to see how a game is running on their devkit just a month before release.

And then a week after release give a statement: "Oh wow. Didn't know it runs piss poor."

It's ... actually upsetting me big time they're fooling us so shamelessly.

Exactly they use the gamers who buy day one as game testers and with that feedback they make patches. Why pay for QA testers when gamers are willing to pay full price snd provide feedback free of charge

It’s better then the days before the internet to download fixes