What if Sony offers Decima Engine for 3rd Party devs for free?

[Eternal_Wings]

The moment Kojima Production was extremely successful using it they should've made it available to more devs. For some reason they went in the opposite direction and even the Until Dawn Remake uses Unreal instead of Decima.

Sony is too basic these days to attempt to do anything ambitious.

Truly a shame. Imagine Team Ninja would use Decima for their next PS exclusive.

 

[Wing84]

What engine? What team? XDev?

PhyreEngine

PhyreEngine is a free, open-source game engine from Sony Interactive Entertainment that can be used on multiple platforms, including Windows, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch, and mobile devices. It's compatible with PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, PlayStation VR, PlayStation Vita, PlayStation Portable, Microsoft Windows, Google Android, and Apple iOS. The engine is written in C++ and can be customized to meet specific needs.

 

[Yurinka]

Decima is probably the best looking engine on the market. Maybe even on par with UE5. Sony could put conditions like for only developing games for PlayStation amd PC, so no worries to accidentally help creating games for rival platform holders.
We have seen smaller Studios like Bend and Housemarque using the Decima, and the games looking visually impressive. Even Kojima a renowned developer legend trusting Decima. I wonder how games could look by 3rd Party devs?

It would be a super retarded idea, like to gift Ferraris for free to random you find in the street.

An engine like that costs dozens of millions and are an important asset to fight their direct competition. They can't give it away.

They are not a NGO, they are a company: they need to make money.

They give away for free some basic small development tools and libraries for devs who make PS games, but not a top tier high end engine like Decima.