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by criley2 4405 days ago
Companies like Sony use in-house custom versions of OpenGL for their API's.

They support OpenGL but aren't using it out of the box for their toolset.

See: libgcm, gnm, gnmx. Although I'm not positive that gnm/gnmx are opengl derivative.

Also see: http://develop.scee.net/files/presentations/gceurope2013/Par... (pdf warning)

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They are not OpenGL derivative. I don't know why this rumor propagates. Oh wait yes I do, because those of us who know what the APIs look like in detail generally can't say anything about them because of NDAs. Sigh.

To be clear: None of the APIs you listed are based on OpenGL. PSGL was an OpenGL implementation, but nobody writing a high-performance game used it because it was too slow and unreliable. The APIs used by almost all shipping games you can think of are substantially lower-level.