-
Ever wanted an RSS feed of all your favorite gaming news sites? Go check out our new Gaming Headlines feed! Read more about it here.
-
We have made minor adjustments to how the search bar works on ResetEra. You can read about the changes here.
Konami Digital Entertainment undergoing personnel changes and organizational restructuring effective February 1st 2021
- Thread starter ggx2ac
- Start date
They're obviously just saving some pennies so they can contract Tim Rogers to localise Tokimeki Memorial!
put pes on switch you cowards
even if it's a f2p version.
I'm sad there's never really been a decent portable football game that had full controls. even fifa football (the closest thing) on the vita came out the year before EA overhauled the gameplay.
even if it's a f2p version.
I'm sad there's never really been a decent portable football game that had full controls. even fifa football (the closest thing) on the vita came out the year before EA overhauled the gameplay.
Last edited:
Portability is part of the reason they're moving to UE4
First heard that in this thread. that's encouraging, thanks.
Konami is making more money than ever with their current strategy of strong mobile games + smaller budget releases of classic ip on switch and consoles. They're not going to move away from that. People ought to accept this reality that's already been in place since five years now.
Silent Hill's total sales across the entire series are lower than 10 million units, I'm pretty sure. There are more mainline Silent Hill games than Metal Gear Solid games and yet each SH sold significantly less copies per installment than each MGS. The series just isn't that big.
By comparison, RE is one of Capcom's strongest performers, even when it doesn't do that well. It's not a huge surprise Capcom is putting a lot of money and effort into RE compared to Konami with SH.
They actually have a new IP announced for Switch
Solomon Program launches this winter in Japan
Solomon Program, the Konami-developed monster battle game that was announced via a demo release in CoroCoro Comic in January, will launch for Switch via the Nintendo eShop this winter, the latest i…
www.gematsu.com
Probably should have come out by now though...
Didn't Kojima always have co-writers though? Shuyo could take over, unless he joined the new KojiPro too
He did have co-writers, but I really can't imagine a full-sized MGS title without Kojima's creative voice behind it. It'll just feel like a pale imitation. Kojima is too fucking weird to just cut him out of the equation and not expect things to change completely.
if this was made to be an accurate image, Konami would have ghosted Silent Hill
Actually something like this says kind of the opposite. If someone is looking at you as a purchase, you tend to not make a lot of moves. They'll be looking at your books and your businesses, and that takes time and you usually don't want to undergo a lot of drastic changes in that time. Imagine making an offer on a house and then before closing finding out that the owner was tearing down walls and remodeling the whole place.
Japan is, as ever, different, and China is China, but still. I'd think if someone had reached an agreement to purchase Konami, but they wanted to consolidate dev teams, then they'd have done it themselves instead of saying "we'll take it, but you need to reorganize it first". Or maybe they're going to reorg and then after that's done and they're more streamlined they'll start looking for a new daddy then, but it feels like there's a step or two missing somewhere in the middle there.
Agreed. You don't make huge restructuring changes like that, and lay off TONS OF PEOPLE, if you're looking to keep your value high in order to get as much money as possible in a buyout.
Yeah this feels more like consolidating their development teams to have a tighter focus on specific franchises or types of games. Could mean some IP revivals, could mean more focus on a specific console or region, could mean more mobile gacha games. But it certainly doesn't mean Konami is shuttering games and selling off all their IP.
Guessing that's what it did shortly after this image was taken :p
I understand that people miss MGS, Silent Hill, Castlevania, and Suikoden, but Konami is doing well with a lot of games that most people here don't play.
I doubt anyone left at Konami would be able to champion Suikoden enough to get a project greenlit, even remasters. The franchise is effectively bottom priority for them.
So what does this even mean? Have Konami shut down their gaming dev divisions? Or just merged them? Have Sony bought Silent Hill and MGS? Have MS bought Konami? Or have Konami bought Google?
who'd buy it? Bomberman ain't exactly an industry trending kinda game. whoever buys it would just turn it into a mobile game, which I think Konami already does?>
It won't. Pachinko decline started before Covid.
Same for Konami.
And many pachinko parlors were still working during spring/summer.
Many of Japan's pachinko parlours stay open despite state of emergency
As stores have closed across Japan during a state of emergency, some pachinko parlours remain defiantly open, sparking concern the noisy gambling halls could undermine the government's fight against the novel coronavirus.
www.reuters.com
I usually understand this kind of discontent, but not in this specific instance.
Here's Konami's PS4 releases through 2020:
2014
- Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes
- Pro Evolution Soccer 2015 (Europe, Australia & North America) / World Soccer Winning Eleven 2015 (Japan & Asia)
- Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
- Pro Evolution Soccer 2016 (Europe, Australia, North America & Asia) / Winning Eleven 2016 (Japan)
- Jikkyō Powerful Pro Yakyū 2016 (Japan only)
- Pro Evolution Soccer 2017 (Europe, Australia, North America & Asia) / Winning Eleven 2017 (Japan)
2018
- Jikkyō Powerful Pro Yakyū 2018 (Japan only)
- Mantis Burn Racing (physical format in Japan only)
- Metal Gear Survive
- Pro Evolution Soccer 2019 (Europe, Australia, North America & Asia) / Winning Eleven 2019 (Japan)
- Super Bomberman R
- Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner MARS (Europe, Australia & North America) / Anubis: Zone of The Enders MARS (Japan & Asia)
- Arcade Classics Anniversary Collection
- Castlevania Anniversary Collection
- Contra Anniversary Collection
- Contra: Rogue Corps
- eFootball PES 2020 (Europe, Australia, North America & Asia) / eFootball Winning Eleven 2020 (Japan)
- Pro Yakyū Spirits 2019 (Japan only)
- eBaseball Powerful Pro Baseball 2020 (Asia & Japan only)
- eFootball PES 2021 Season Update
- Skelattack
Kojima is the rare example of a well-known auteur in this industry, sure, but that doesn't mean MGS has to die.
That'd be like saying Ghost in The Shell SAC,
I would argue MGS is already dead and there's no reason to dig it up just to keep it going. There's no other stories left to tell. Let it rest.
nah, they'd just reboot it. there's always new stories to tell, just Legend of Zelda it if you have to
The world doesn't need a MGS reboot, and Konami seems to agree on that. Sometimes a corpse is better left alone.
It's okay for a franchise to end. There's nothing wrong with moving on.
if the sony rumor is true, I wouldn't want to be stuck with remakes to end the series. especially if they show that the gameplay is still in some amount of demand. whether they replace Solid Snake or not, it'd be worthwhile to attempt something new
PES and a baseball game made by the powerpro team, and as of recent, Bomberman
Shadow Hearts, Xenosaga, and maybe even Shining Force fans are feeling it too :(
Yeah, I think the greater point is that people hear "Konami" and they think of MGS and consider it to be in the same league as Capcom, Sega, etc. But in reality, they are a very niche publisher with minimal output in recent years.
not even recent. since around the end of the ps2/beginning of the ps3 era, their output has been on a steep decline.
So they're finally doing it.
They're finally converting all of their employees into sentieny Pachinko machines.
Hate to see it.
They're finally converting all of their employees into sentieny Pachinko machines.
Hate to see it.
I mean, Kojima is responsible for a lot more than just the writing. We've had Metal Gear projects with other people at the helm and they don't even scrape the quality of the mainline series at its peak.