Hideo Kojima worked at Konami, he built the Fox engine according to the highest specifications and developed " Metal Gear Solid 5". But it seems that with the resignation of Hideo Kojima, the Fox engine is no longer favored by Konami, and is about to complete its historical mission and become a game engine that is dead.
Konami recently announced that "Live Football 2021" will be launched in the scale and method of the season update. The main energy of the development team will be on "Live Football 2022". This game will be developed from scratch for the next generation of consoles and will be used Unreal Engine 5 from the Epic studio.
"Live Football 2013" is the first work developed by the Fox engine in the series. Although the primary goal of the Fox engine is to serve the "Metal Gear" series, the engine is obviously powerful enough to be used in the development of other types of games. The
Fox engine has undergone several iterations and evolution, and has always provided a strong foundation and backing for the "Live Football" and "Metal Gear Solid" series, including the cancelled "Silent Hill" demo "P.T." which was also developed with the Fox engine.
But now Hideo Kojima has resigned from Konami , and may have also taken away a group of core technical personnel. The Fox engine's internal position in Konami has become awkward. My father is gone, no one is in charge of the direction of further development iteration, and if we continue to use the current version, it will not be able to meet the new development needs. Maybe Konami really couldn't find a replacement, and there was a key vacancy in the engine engineer position, which made the Fox engine unable to continue to use. If
uses Unreal Engine 5, Konami can undoubtedly save a lot of R&D costs, allowing developers to invest in development after a short period of learning. Epic estimates that it will also send engineers to guide. It is relatively safe in terms of cost and risk control. But the problem is that commercial engines require licensing fees. Most large manufacturers will develop their own internal engines. Konami abandoned the Fox engine, which has been in business for many years, and prefers to use commercial engines. I am afraid that there have been many internal struggles and helplessness. Right.
