Konami: "High-end console games are the most important to us", they want to expand their portfolio with "Globally Known" IPs
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Yeah, they are just talking about the next gen. All in all, they are also making mid budget games like bomberman and contra, that while do look like poop, are somewhat enjoyable and exist. Not everything need to be as big as metal gear to be good or sucessfull.
I disagree. I think it would be a bigger disappointment to let such a fantastic franchise go to waste. They already have a great engine, it's all about having the right people handle the project.
I'm confident they can get it together, and release a great sequel.
Do you have a link to that? That would be pretty cool if true
There is no need for another Metal Gear ever again.
Not as a reboot, not with all new characters, just no.
They already used the amazing engine and base of MGSV and delivered the worst Metal Gear game by an enormous margin with Survive.
Metal Gear died with Kojima's departure, and that's okay.
Looks like Pachinko is getting regulated, this might be why:
Already in decline, Japan's pachinko industry now braces for gambling-addiction regulations
Like many pachinko parlors throughout Japan, Naomi Suzuki's establishment on the outskirts of the city of Fukushima was once full of energy, with the din of bouncing steel balls and garish lights flashing to indicate winnings.www.japantimes.co.jp
Looks like Pachinko is in decline. Serves them right if true.
Pachinko was never a big money maker for Konami. Mobile games are. Arcade games are. They have a rhythm game division that has been active the last 20 years.
We'll see if they actually get into other genres again with certainty. Surprised Contra releases this month.
Give me a console beatmania IIDX with a rock band style music store covering the entire series of games and I'll be happy forever.
Yeah sure Konami. You just said you were getting out of high end console games and now you pretend you care? That's like Sega doing the same shit a few years back. What is it with these companies who dont know what the hell they want to do
If that's the case, some quality remasters/remakes would probably be the "easiest" start to Konami winning back the trust of hardcore fans.
Then, I dunno, loan Miyazaki and co. for a new Castlevania game.
Then, I dunno, loan Miyazaki and co. for a new Castlevania game.
Time to dream big boy, girls, and non binary friends.
Give me that 1080p 60fps Frogger with Ryan Reynolds voicing him in a big budget movie!
Give me that 1080p 60fps Frogger with Ryan Reynolds voicing him in a big budget movie!
Suikoden 3 remaster will make me forgive them a little bit for what they did to kojima.
I said it earlier in the thread, I believe them. But thinking it over, maybe Nintendo should just buy their game division and expand. God knows Budson IPs in Nintendo's hands would obly be a gokd thing.
They still haven't ported any of their TMNT Arcade games since the Xbox 360 arcade release back in 2007. That's an instant fail already in my book.
I would love this to happen.
Konami has too many great IPs I want more of. And I don't even care if its just them letting other studios make some games.
Konami has too many great IPs I want more of. And I don't even care if its just them letting other studios make some games.
They wanted rid of Kojima because while he made them money, he didn't make them enough.
Waiting years and years for a single payout on an expensive project compared to the ongoing riches of cheap pachinko and gyms just got old for Konami so they decided Kojima had to go.
For some weird reason they did it in a really underhanded way and it created a lot of bad blood.
There's also reports of them mistreating employees and bad working practices that came out around the same time too.
So the only things Konami could make I would care about anymore:
MGS 1 remake - Remake the game with at least MGS4 style gameplay.
MGS 2/3 - Port the controls from the 3DS MGS3 to MGS2 and 3.
MGO1 - Port this and make it 60FPS.
MGS4 - Just 60FPS/1080p port.
MGO2 - Port this and make it 60FPS.
MGSPW - Just port the version from the HD collection.
MGSPO/+ - 1080p/60FPS port would be enough for me.
Snatcher - Port to modern.
Policenauts - Port to modern.
Bonus:
MGS3 remake using those Patchislot assets.
Metal Gear 1/2 remake with outsourced studio that can actually pull it off.
Chapter 3?!
MGS 1 remake - Remake the game with at least MGS4 style gameplay.
MGS 2/3 - Port the controls from the 3DS MGS3 to MGS2 and 3.
MGO1 - Port this and make it 60FPS.
MGS4 - Just 60FPS/1080p port.
MGO2 - Port this and make it 60FPS.
MGSPW - Just port the version from the HD collection.
MGSPO/+ - 1080p/60FPS port would be enough for me.
Snatcher - Port to modern.
Policenauts - Port to modern.
Bonus:
MGS3 remake using those Patchislot assets.
Metal Gear 1/2 remake with outsourced studio that can actually pull it off.
Chapter 3?!
Yeah but Kohima is a self promoter
Maybe ther got tired of him spending money and not finishing the game
We'll never know
I wonder what the response would be if a competent game starring The Boss during WW2 was made. Would it be a success critically or commercially without Kojima at the helm? Hopefully Konami makes the game and an open world Castlevania.
Not pachinkos, their most profitable market is mobile games. They're making a ton of money from that.
Why spend millions of dollars on one AAA game when you get millions of dollars from one cheap ass mobile game.
