JadedWriter
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Maybe he didn't want to clean the Konami gym locker rooms.DerZuhälter;179145953 said:
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Julien Merceron, worldwide technology director overseeing Fox Engine at Konami, quits
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KatamariOnTheRocks
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Mass_Pincup
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No, they just have different goals and don't really care about hitting 60fps.
They don't really care about hitting 30 either from the looks of it. Also a design choice?
Edit: Sorry for the off-topic posting. Like I said, it would've been really interesting to see Fox Engine adapted on more games besides football to see its prowess. But with Julien leaving, it seems unlikely.
Definitely a consequence of their design choices.
Mass_Pincup
Banned
Yes? Graphics is the most important thing this days and to achieve their target they have to make concession on framerate. If they wanted to make Unity a 60fps game in that engine they could have (they did since it's 60 on PC), it would've looked much worse and it wasn't their intention from the beginning.
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Though I really wish he was able to put the engine building stuff out there for the Fox Engine. So people could fully mod the game.
Pie and Beans
Look for me on the local news, I'll be the guy arrested for trying to burn down a Nintendo exec's house.
Such a lust for talent exoduses! WHOOOOOOOOOOOOO will be next.
I lol'd.
Mass_Pincup
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Oh don't worry they will, it just won't be ambitious
TheSlySoul
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At least the FOX Engine will do great things for gambling machines.
I made myself sad...
Love Deterrence
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Ground Zeroes
The Phantom Pain
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Fox Engine: Delivering Incomplete Games since 2014
The Phantom Pain
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Fox Engine: Delivering Incomplete Games since 2014
Graphics Horse
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In console games or as a company generally?
NoctisVsStar
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Konami doesn't make money off games nowadays. They're perfectly fine and will be for years to come.
Id say pretty high. They don't do traditional gaming development anymore.
As a company in general.
Oh cool. Just read they operate a bunch of fitness clubs and have their hands in anime, slot machine and toy markets. I thought most of Konami's income came from video games.
Digital Entertainment is their biggest division but that also includes Mobile and other online games which bring in a bit as well as their annualised console titles like PES.
Other divisions are smaller but they have nothing to do with console gaming and are growing in their own right.
Sgt.Pepper
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Haha, whoops I didn't see the thread.
Hopefully Konami will license this.
Hopefully Konami will license this.
Randomizer
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The depressing thing is Konami's mobile and gambling future will probably be lucrative and they will hold onto and hoard their best franchises (MGS, Castlevania, Suikoden etc.) doing absolutely nothing with them.
BumblebeeCody
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You can almost hear Jim Sterling fapping over this.
Roni
Gold Member
I owe him a beer then
You're going to have to explain this one to me?
PES looked better with the old engine. New engine also means redoing some of the work.
We've just gotten new information from our sources. Apparently, Konami has 0 AAA console game currently in development/planned. The only console game they plan on releasing next year is PES 2017. When Konami said they were already working on the next Metal Gear, it was pure BS.
Here is the article we wrote about it: http://www.gameblog.fr/news/53518-konami-arrete-les-jeux-aaa-console-aucun-metal-gear-en-prepa
Here is the article we wrote about it: http://www.gameblog.fr/news/53518-konami-arrete-les-jeux-aaa-console-aucun-metal-gear-en-prepa
That can't be right since they just announced a new Powerful Pro Baseball game for PS3/PS4/Vita for Spring 2016: http://www.konami.jp/pawa/new/
You might need better sources.
PetriP-TNT
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That can't be right since they just announced a new Powerful Pro Baseball game for PS3/PS3/Vita for Spring 2016: http://www.konami.jp/pawa/new/
You might need better sources.
Wasn't too long... ^^
That can't be right since they just announced a new Powerful Pro Baseball game for PS3/PS4/Vita for Spring 2016: http://www.konami.jp/pawa/new/
You might need better sources.
Well, that's like PES, it doesn't really count. Every site seems to agree with what our sources have said so far.
That can't be right since they just announced a new Powerful Pro Baseball game for PS3/PS4/Vita for Spring 2016: http://www.konami.jp/pawa/new/
You might need better sources.
Would that count as AAA? It seems to be something they just do yearly in Japan with a somewhat loyal following.
Graphics Horse
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Eh.. Half the games people want wouldn't count as AAA. A new bomberman? A new igavania? A new contra? A new gradius?
He can't and won't because of laws and stuff. Konami owns that entire engine because it was designed by their employees during their tenure at Konami. Unless they totally tucked up the hiring paperwork, he can't use any part of that code.
NinjaMouse
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It's cool...Kojima has already fultoned him back to the new Mother Base to begin work on new Ops. ;-). Building a new base with a new team has been the theme all a long right?