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[Naked Prime]

Konami. However, many of the engineers and tool designers could be Kojipro and may jump ship after Phantom Pain, leaving Konami with a headache.

 

[Hattori]

I had to google Aktiebolag...

 

[Justified]

They're one and the same.

DICE's real name is Electronic Arts Digital Illusions Creative Entertainment Aktiebolag.

I think he was sarcastically comparing

 

[Fox Mulder]

It's sad to think of the years of wasted effort and Kojima games we'll never get from it.

 

[Squire]

Konami owns it. There's no chance of it getting out.

 

[Garlador]

It's sad to think of the years of wasted effort and Kojima games we'll never get from it.

Just to torture you a bit...

... Imagine Zone of the Enders 3 in the FOX Engine.

 

[Halabane]

Any work done while an employee of a corporation is owned by the corporation

So konami, konami and konami

Depends. IP law is the wild west. Deal with it a lot at work. Even if you pay for it, the subcontractor could won the rights or even the individual. Depends on the contract.

 

[JumpJeff84]

Based on how well Ground Zeros runs, it'd be a damn shame if this engine disappeared. We need more 60fps on current gen consoles

 

[Triggerhappytel]

Who owns Frostbite? DICE or EA?

Obviously David Goldfarb owns it.

 

[Afrikan]

They're one and the same.

DICE's real name is Electronic Arts Digital Illusions Creative Entertainment Aktiebolag.

EADICE huh?

sometimes I hate that EA bought studios that make some of the best game engines... Criterion Games (Renderware) and DICE (Frostbite).

Sometimes wonder what other studios would've used their engines, and for what games.

yes I understand DICE might not be where it's at right now if it wasn't for EA.

 

[GrantDaNasty]

Name on the paycheck gets final say (he said/she said be damned), so Konami

 

[Backfoggen]

Konami will still spit out 720p PES on XB1 for years.

 

[Respawn]

Based on how well Ground Zeros runs, it'd be a damn shame if this engine disappeared. We need more 60fps on current gen consoles

We had one game in a box environment. The new metal gear will be a good test.

 

[Shin-Ra]

The collective minds of those that created it.

Stick it back together, improve it, rebrand it the Socks Engine with a finely woven logo and presto. Fox 2.0

 

[mattp]

how many times is this going to come up
i dont get it
do that many people really think kojima productions is an independent company?
they were just a division of konami
of course konami owns it

 

[Duxxy3]

And in 2019 they can start making their next game.

Why 2019?

 

[Triggerhappytel]

Why 2019?

Maybe the Fox Engine took them 4 years to build so he's assuming the same length of time for another engine?

 

[OmegaFax]

Konami funding and developing their own engine only to not own it or dictate licensing terms would be icing on the cake in terms of bad business decisions. It's like walking into a stranger's house to finish their basement .. except not. Yeah, anyways.

 

[Datschge]

The bigger question is whether Konami, with the assumed drain of talents from former KojiPro, is still in the position to develop and use the Fox Engine.

 

[Nightengale]

They could always sell it. Or license it out to other devs.

Who owns Frostbite? DICE or EA?

The bigger question is "Is there any single publisher-owned studio where the ownership of the technology/etc don't belong to the publisher?"

 

[LSauchelli]

If Kojima owns it, the people at Konami are complete morons.

 

[Neff]

Who owns it?

Konami

Who's not going to put it to use?

Konami

They're going to make MGS games, PES games, and very likely Silent Hill games as well, and they now have a very competitive engine for that purpose.

They may also look into licensing it for other developers.

 

[striferser]

The first two letter on who own it. There's 6 letters.
KO_____
You know the rest.

 

[Dremark]

Konami owns the fox engine.

They also own Kojima Pro before they eliminated it.

They own Kojima as well.

 

[Interfectum]

They're going to make MGS games, PES games, and very likely Silent Hill games as well, and they now have a very competitive engine for that purpose.

They may also look into licensing it for other developers.

With Unity and UE4 out there I can't imagine any dev wanting to license the Fox Engine.

 

[bigol]

With Unity and UE4 out there I can't imagine any dev wanting to license the Fox Engine.

Japanese developers.

 

[FLAguy954]

Konami of course, they also owned Kojima Productions.

.

 

[dark10x]

With Unity and UE4 out there I can't imagine any dev wanting to license the Fox Engine.

Japanese speaking devs maybe? It seems to be impressive in what it can achieve as well. I'd like to see a game as ambitious as MGSV created in Unity or UE4 while holding 60fps on consoles.

That's not to say that any old licensee could extract such good performance from it, though. Who knows.

 

[MrNyarlathotep]

Who would Konami license the engine to? Most major publishers have already created their own engines, and the indie sector is already overcrowded with low-cost game development tools.

Yup, this.