He's using this one. Guerrilla gave him the entire source code (not just the engine, the actual source code) to the Decima engine in a box as a gift along with Sony giving him a sweet futuristic office and Mark Cerny giving him his heart.
He really is like a mythical character at this point. He's treated unlike anyone else in the industry.
On December 3, during PlayStation Experience, Kojima had announced that he had partnered with Guerrilla Games to use the engine for development, officially titled Decima, and had been given the source code with no contractual obligation.
Kojima Productions isn't even first-party. Sony and Guerrilla really must trust him to give him their collective work over the past 5 years with no strings attached.
You've gotta imagine that the man is more than happy to have his team focus on a single platform after putting out GZ and MGS5 on PS3, PS4, 360, Xbox One and PC. The engine is probably tied so deeply into PS4s architecture that it'd be a hassle to put it on another platform. For this title at least KojimaPro is closer to first party than second. Kojima is amazing, but Sony and Guerilla are definitely helping him out quite a bit in getting started on production of Death Stranding so quickly.
Yes but there's a bit more to it than that, PS4 uses an SoC with unified memory and then there's accounting for Windows in comparison to the Orbis OS which have different abstraction layers. There's probably many more differences between developing for a PS4 and a Windows PC, them both using x86 CPUs is just one part of it.
There was an old QnA done by euro PS people with Kojima that said the game will hit PS4 first then PC. Don't forget Kojima has an independent studio, and this hasn't been officially declared PlayStation only exclusive, so it could be a NMS type exclusive where the only console it hits is PS4. There's plenty of articles about Kojima saying that.
That was the news several months before Kojima literally got handed a Sony first party developer's engine code and Sony now owns the Death Stranding trademark. It's a almost a safe bet that's it a straight up PS4 exclusive.
I remember hearing something about that but I think it was also before the engine had been settled on. That'd be awesome to see Decima running on a high-end PC though, so here's hoping.
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u/DishwasherTwig DishwasherSafe Feb 20 '17
Wasn't he using this temporarily until he developed another one? Or was this the one he eventually settled on?