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Konami's new CEO: Mobile is the future of gaming, is Konami's main platform
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BibiMaghoo
Member
As much as I hate this outcome, they are not really wrong are they, especially with the 'general public' target audience.
Dark_castle
Junior Member
SE is still actively making console and traditional handheld games, whereas I'm inclined to think Konami is quitting console business altogether barring PES.
"Continue" is the key word. They will not abandon Pes, MGS; Silent Hill, development on console so easily.
Anyway, i'm out the doom topic.
TheSlySoul
Member
Konami won't die, but their computer gaming division might.
Although it is sad that I seen more money pumped into gambling than gaming from Konami.
Although it is sad that I seen more money pumped into gambling than gaming from Konami.
RyanPierre
Member
He isn't saying what you said either. He didn't comment on the future of those franchises on consoles at all (that I can see) beyond the games he listed.
StoppedInTracks
Member
To all the annoying "lol!!!" jokers in this thread who do not understand the market:
Konami is right. Mobile is growing for Square-Enix. Mobile is growing for everybody. HD gaming is shrinking if you are not called ACTIVISION or EA (even I have doubt here that it is not shrinking for EA).
Konami is right. Mobile is growing for Square-Enix. Mobile is growing for everybody. HD gaming is shrinking if you are not called ACTIVISION or EA (even I have doubt here that it is not shrinking for EA).
Zeouterlimits
Member
Other above and below me are reading it the same way I'd did.
I dunno, we'll see what they do.
They're gonna wreck MGS aren't they
crooked spin
Member
Wouldn't be a NeoGAF thread without an extremely childish reaction to mobile gaming, though.
Massively different than Square-Enix, if you go and actually look at the thread with their numbers. Diversification has paid off for them and investing in *both* mobile and big titles is what is pushing them forward. Square-Enix has a huge push back into AAA coming over the next couple years too. Square-Enix's brand still means something, because they still care about their big legacy hits and that helps their mobile division make as much as it does.
Capcom has been keeping their brand going with big titles too and has been embracing the digital mid-tier. Only $25 for DMC4:SE and RE Revelations 2. Plus, they've still got a lot of big titles coming with Street Fighter V, Dragon's Dogma Online, a new Resident Evil to be announced at E3, etc. They're doing a decent job at being diverse.
Going pure mobile isn't going to do shit for Konami. Their brands are going to lose all meaning and no one is going to give a crap about any of their titles. I do not at all believe that they are going to be suddenly pulling in way more money on mobile by dropping console/PC development (at least not long term). Konami's gaming division is going to fade into obscurity until the only thing gaming related that they still make is Pachinko machines.
PS4 sales in Japan say hi back.
It's an overreaction to their domestic market. In Japan, mobile is in fact killing everything else dead, and for whatever reason a lot of Japanese companies can be pretty myopic about things beyond their shores
Sega and Namco had very strong mobile results as well this year.To all the annoying "lol!!!" jokers in this thread who do not understand the market:
Konami is right. Mobile is growing for Square-Enix. Mobile is growing for everybody. HD gaming is shrinking if you are not called ACTIVISION or EA (even I have doubt here that it is not shrinking for EA).
Rollo Lawson
Banned
Not surprising. Anyway "mobile" means a hell of a whole lot more than it used to...
Cow Goes Moo
Member
oh neat, I'll check it out later, thanks
video games aren't dying, they're simply transitioning to a different medium
Infernal Monkey
Member
Oh no, Konami's huge, varied output of console games such as
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will go to mobile!
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will go to mobile!
Konami's been dead for fucking years now
yep, the amount of money we hear mobile games are making is ridiculous. I mean, remember the Super Bowl ads for friggin' mobile games? and those aren't even good games.
SliceSabre
Banned
Ahh well. RIP Konami, you may continue on as a company but not in my gaming heart.
njean777
Member
And others will take over, the west is doing so now. Japan use to be the bastion of gaming, but hasn't been since last generation. Pc/Console gaming will not die, and mobile will not take over
Yeah, and that's been that way for awhile. I should've quoted the part where he's talking about pushing mobile in the West, as that was what I was referring to.
Western trends don't match up with Japanese gaming trends, but to throw the baby out with the bathwater and believe the answer is all-mobile isn't the solution either.
Rock Howard
Member
Well, Japan has fallen off when it comes to traditional games but they're still viable elsewhere. The install base for PS4 world wide is huge right now and growing rapidly.
Both should be able to co-exist.
I love my phone but I hate what it has done to the industry.
StoppedInTracks
Member
IMO it has to do with the price point. I am all for $40 (yes, $40) iOS titles if they give me the depth and longevity of PS4/ Xbone titles (of course the graphics will be worse). Hell, if there are $40 NDS games then why not $40 iOS games?
Just make them 40 hours long, without the shitty "stamina" system. Make them turn-based if you like or reflex-touch based - I do not care.
But the truth is no one will release such game when $2.99 titles are flooding the market...
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
Their biggest franchise always have the majority of sales coming from overseas though.
Unknown One
Member
Well goodbye Konami. Will hardly miss you (only plays MGS).
nelsonroyale
Member
Good riddance.
Interested to see what Kojima does next.
Interested to see what Kojima does next.
TheSlySoul
Member
Yep.
We have to remember the death of the arcade when consoles took over.
Now consoles are facing the same battle with mobile devices.
It would have to take something huge to kill gaming all together.
However, it could become something most hardcore gamers do not like. But that doesn't really matter since corporations just want what makes money and not makes you happy.
I'm quite astonished that a company with a deep link with consoles games as Konami decide on such a harsh move now, and expecially now that the mobile market is seeing the first signs of what will probably be a mobile bubble...
Indie mobile development is already phasing out of mobile space and big groups (kings, rovio etc) are already suffering for the switch in the pay perspective of mobile users (AKA Gimme all free and without ads.....). Surely there're still a lot of money in the mobile market but I'm not so sure that there's enough space for all those big players.....
Anyway, as always, time will tell...
Indie mobile development is already phasing out of mobile space and big groups (kings, rovio etc) are already suffering for the switch in the pay perspective of mobile users (AKA Gimme all free and without ads.....). Surely there're still a lot of money in the mobile market but I'm not so sure that there's enough space for all those big players.....
Anyway, as always, time will tell...
Why don't people understand that Mobile, PC and Console games can live side by side?
People aren't thinking "fuck the PS4 and Xbox one, I'll buy an IPhone 6 instead".
It's just that those people who buy these phones are becoming more interested in fast, pick up and play games.
People aren't thinking "fuck the PS4 and Xbox one, I'll buy an IPhone 6 instead".
It's just that those people who buy these phones are becoming more interested in fast, pick up and play games.
Storm Kyleis
Member
This is a scary sentence.
I don't like this, but let's be honest. Mobile IS the future of gaming, in terms of install base, accessibility, investments needed (lower), profit, margins (higher) and business model (way more flexible).
I don't likt this at all, I don't like to play on mobile devices and so on, so I'm not happy, but the economics are leading in this direction for awhile.
I don't likt this at all, I don't like to play on mobile devices and so on, so I'm not happy, but the economics are leading in this direction for awhile.
mcz117chief
Member
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9KVIfpNG4w
but I don't like mobile games, I don't even have a mobile phone !
my Lord deliver us
struggler_guts
Member
I may be a little drunk but I'm literally crying because of this. It's depressing, almost solely because they will get away with this. Their love for mobile and hate for tattoos are really the only things I dislike of japan
yea, home consoles are struggling there. it's so different than what's going on in the West.
I think more people would be fine with mobile gaming if we got quality games from these big companies that weren't just gambling simulations in a F2P game dressing. Some of those gambling simulators are fun and can be enjoyed for little to no money if you are patient (I have been casually playing Puzzle and Dragons for over 2 years now), but most are greedy attempts at ringing as much cash as possible out of gamers before they are bored and move on.