Board Thread:Metal Gear Solid V/@comment-5038094-20150128004621/@comment-42.98.53.33-20150203143218

Soul reaper wrote:

Weedle McHairybug wrote: Besides, wasn't the FOX Engine supposed to cut down significantly on development time? It really shouldn't take this long to develop especially considering that the FOX Engine was purported to cut down immensely on development time. The FOX Engine is supposed to cut down development time of FUTURE titles, MGS or otherwise. The reason it's taking so long at the moment it because MGSV is being built alongside the FOX Engine. One is being used as a guide for the other but resources are being shared between both. Future games wont have this issue as the FOX Engine will already be complete. On the one hand it cuts down development time, on the other, it also means the producers can develop games with more complex ideas with less time, so if MGSV is more complex than previous MGS games (at least in terms of the world size, new game play elements, new online mode and many other aspects of the game), then in some ways it is pretty fast already. Look back at MGS4, it took almost 4 years from MGS3's release to complete where as it only takes about three years for MGS2 and MGS3, but then MGS4's scale is nowhere close to TPP's and we at least got GZ by now (after MGSV's development started as one game in around 2012).

That said, I do prefer to shorten the wait, it really feels like a "9-years' wait" in some sense...