All I want are a few compilations.
They have a massive library prime for re-releases, but I guess there's no money to be made on the idea.
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Konami just had their most profitable year ever
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Yep, I'm too. Literally GOTY after GOTY:
Can't wait to see what they're preparing next.
Yep, on mobile. That's why I said you should invest in good smartphone.
And now we are playing Metacritic lol? Bomberman is mostly 60-70+ score game lol. It is never a highly scored game in MC except for a rare few one or two. It is the perfect example of game that resonate with more casual gamer as it can be played by almost everyone there.
And Konami had been keep giving us free update with new characters and stages. I don't see why anything is wrong with that lol.
It is also nice for you to put those two title while ignoring their big hit on 3DS last year.
I mean, they literally just release a big game on PS4 last 2 weeks which is considered one of the best Powa Pro in PS4 there.
Not sure why you sounds so petty lol.^_^ For MGS, it is dead Jim. It had the same fate as Suikoden there as the creator is gone now and there is no one who can continue their last director motivation.
Yeah I think we can realistically see Konami stop developing games out of mobile and pachislots ://
Actively ignoring their legacy?
Bomberman is back and a success.
Yeah, that would probably be the best case scenario at this point. I also realize I'm not their current target demographics, which pains me even more since I used to be a huge fan of this company.
You mean the $80 million game that made a profit of $179 million on day 1? And that's not counting all the money that Konami made off of Ground Zeroes. Oh, and let's not forget the brand new engine that was created during the development of the game.
Kojima delivered on all accounts and he and his team made one of the best playing games ever made. The only portion that is unfinished in MGSV is Episode 51 and that was supposed to be post launch DLC, which got cancelled for obvious reasons. But even then Kojima and his team put together a video from what they could to show fans what would have happened.
So yeah, defending Konami in light of hating on Kojima is always funny to me. Especially considering how many other employees they have screwed over.
The financial results pdf mentions the Yu-Gi-Oh TCG under Digital Entertainment, so I think it's that part of the business even if it's physical
I would imagine Yugioh would make up a sizeable chuck of Konami Digital Entertainment profits. Between Duel Links, the physical TCG, Manga and Show its a juggernaut. It some areas its more popular than Magic and in Asian regions it 100% is.
Could you post sales numbers for Momotaro Dentetsu, so people will see here how "big" was that title :)
So you like bad reviewed games. I got it now.
Healthy how? So all competition becomes all big industry names, a flooded market with no controls, and indies being shoved all the way down on the app store due the greater influx and big names? Indies race to the bottom in price just to get their names out there? Third world contries left behind even more?
Ummm...... thats not how u count profit lol. Like what the hell. Company don't receive 60 bucks fully for every copy sold. They are going to get cut from not only retailers but also the platform holder and that is not in small numbers. In the end, even if the project is profitable the risk is too high for the reward it received as there is no guarantee that the product would bring such huge profit when the company would need to hold all those lost early on when they can just invest that 80 milion in other platform which is safer and able to bring profit on faster manner.
Funny you should bring up Bomberman because it received a lot of great free post-launch support and I would easily recommend it in its current state. Konami listened to their fans. :)Yep, I'm too. Literally GOTY after GOTY:
Also, it sold fantastic for what it is.
450k in Japan alone.
I like any kind of game lol. I am not one to be trivial by bad reviews lol.^_^
Oh, that's huge. Probably they should drop their smarphone games and invest exclusively in 3DS instead.
MGSV made a lot of money and was received very positively by critics and in general, so Kojima and his team delivered.
What you are arguing against is AAA game development, not Kojima.
The new God of War is expensive as fuck and Sony probably could have made more money investing its budget into something else. Who cares? The important thing is that we got an amazing game and Sony will still make a healthy profit.
Yep, it's a remake with enhanced graphics, 4K support, new sound design and VR support. VR is optional, as I understand.
Haha. That salt lol. But sure. You don't need to worry lol. They already invested that money to make Bomberman on Switch which almost hit 1 million WW+ Jikkyou Power Pro for PS4 there. So you don't need to worry about them.
I would love if they'd license them out instead of just sitting on them the same way Smaug sits on a pile of gold....
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Oh, I don't. I'm not a shareholder like you :) I'm just interested in good games, that's it.
Are the images in the OP not appearing for some of you? Why do people keep bringing up pachinko like it's some top priority for Konami? Sure, the profit margin in that division is high, but still makes up a relatively small portion of their business.
The vast majority of their profits are coming from Konami Digital Entertainment, which is their video game arm and includes TCG and anime. In this division alone, they are still one of the more successful Japanese publishers. For example, they nearly doubled Capcom's profits in this sector, despite Capcom having a huge hit with Monster Hunter World.
You do you though.
The vast majority of their profits are coming from Konami Digital Entertainment, which is their video game arm and includes TCG and anime. In this division alone, they are still one of the more successful Japanese publishers. For example, they nearly doubled Capcom's profits in this sector, despite Capcom having a huge hit with Monster Hunter World.
Perhaps it's time to stop posting in a goddamn financials thread if you have no interest in financials.
You do you though.
Hmm, having looked at the slides/reports they don't seem overly interested like Sega Sammy to put money into a potential gaming casino license in Japan, which is a bit of a pity due to them being a mature player in slots/gaming as well as facilities (amusement, gyms) - however doing that is a high risk strategy that I don't think they're up for especially since their current pillars especially mobile are doing quite well.
They'd probably rather ensure they are in the front of the queue when the orders for slots come in.
They'd probably rather ensure they are in the front of the queue when the orders for slots come in.
Then you'd be happy to know the new Pawapuro game is their best so far. No need to be so mad about Konami doing good.
I hate baseball. Boredom.
And I'm not mad. I just don't like bad games.
Aomori, never been, but I have some friends from there. I'm in Tokyo, so there are plenty, but I would really like one near the subway I use to commute to work.
Don't you know, there is a law that Japanese game companies have to do whatever western gamers want them to do.
Konami:
Omg I couldn't have summed it up better. Bravo sir
Guess thats nice for you then. Go try their newest Jikkyou Power Pro on PS4 or their mobile games as that is good games.^_^
Ummm.... Kojima vs Konami fiasco is literally about AAA games and how Kojima is such a huge money pit for Konami that it needed interference from Konami to make sure that the game can be released faster than it keep continuing haemorrhaging money for Konami.
Again, you should not compare third party company with a platform holder like at all. Sony is literally giant if you compared it with Konami and Sony had much more financial stability which will allow them to release much bigger and riskier project vs what Konami can do.
Based on their earnings. They probably learned literally all the correct things.^_^
No it's not "literally" about that because we don't know what it's actually about. At one point Kojima is making MGSV and the head of Konami personally calls him and requests that he make a new Silent Hill and at another their relationship has completely gone down the drain.
And you should really stop with this money pit thing. The only way it would make sense is if MGSV failed, which it didn't. The game was a major success.
I used Sony as an example, the same thing can be said for many other devs. Take Square Enix for example who still make super expensive mainline Final Fantasy games and are now even giving Tabata his own division to make a new AAA IP.
Right, abusing developers with inhumane conditions leads to great products so Kojima was the only point of failure there.
Yah but they are in denial and want to use pachiko to drive the narrative that Konami don't care about games
Idk what I'm looking at here but apparantly it's creating a lot of revenue
Anubis ZOE Mars is a ZOE2 remake with VR support. I will definitely be buying.
And again, we had heard that Kojima had been wasting too much money for Konami with MGSV project there. It is a fact. 80 million USD is not small amount of money at all.
I am again not talking that pushing for AAA games is suddenly such a bad thing. But not pushing for AAA project is also not a bad thing too. Konami chooses the choice of abandoning AAA gaming and that had rewarded them a lot there. While we can also see for company like Cacpcom which had been pushing a lot of AAA gaming experience had been doing below what Konami had been doing so there is both positive and negative sides of argument there.
Have you tried any of their recent arcade offerings? They have some really killer stuff out there right now.
You must see how angry this type of post will make us Koji and MGS fans. Why do it?
It's not unusual for a AAA game with a 5 year development time (said development time is also not unusual for AAA games).
The difference with MGSV is that not only did Kojima and co. make the game but also created an excellent new engine during that time and as a part of that budget.
Historically, Konami was always bigger than Capcom. It's not fair comparison at all. You should stop doing that.
Also you should stop bashing Capcom too, because they're doing great – https://www.resetera.com/threads/capcom-fy-2017-2018-report-platinum-page-updated-mhw-7-9m.41053/
"Highest levels of profitability in company history following record-breaking hit title."