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[SonyToo!™]

This just means Konami are no longer making games inhouse besides PES right?

Besides Kojima Production Konami have all the series I'm interested in have being contracted out for years anyway. As long as Konami doesn't give us Silent Hill HD but rather MGR, Hardcorps Uprising, Gradius V & the Rebirths I'm a happy chappy.

 

[Manoko]

#F*CKONAMI

 

[protomouse]

Well, no shit. Now, if they can find it within their hearts to have WayForward make portable Contra 5, I'll be happy.

 

[Guri]

This just means Konami are no longer making games inhouse besides PES right?

Besides Kojima Production Konami have all the series I'm interested in have being contracted out for years anyway. As long as Konami doesn't give us Silent Hill HD but rather MGR, Hardcorps Uprising, Gradius V & the Rebirths I'm a happy chappy.

Probably not even contracted, since they're not interested in spending the budget an AAA game demands.

 

[DJChuy]

No more Suikoden, Castlevania, Silent Hill or Metal Gear. Part of my childhood dead.

Actually, I don't mind no more MGS since the series should just end with V, but no more SH bums me out. I actually enjoyed the recent games; sure they're not as good as the first four, but they were still decent with some nice ideas.

 

[Omega Kirby]

PC and Mobile it is

 

[Garlador]

The saddest thing is Konami was SO essential to my childhood. Whether it be Metal Gear Solid or Symphony of the Night raising the bar, I got STARTED playing games with Contra, Castlevania, and Ninja Turtles on NES.

Our generation was raised on excellent Konami games.

A new generation is going to grow up asking "who's Konami? Oh, they're like Sierra, Atari, and Midway... got it."

 

[Hugstable]

Hopefully someone else can pick up their franchises. Bye Konami!

Konami needs those franchises for their slot machines

 

[ChasingComets]

Such a lust for Panchinko

 

[djSyndrome]

And yet they are preparing to release at least one Bemani game on PC.

 

[Corpsepyre]

Incredibly sad, really.

Never thought any of this, including Kojima's exit, could happen.

 

[Walshy]

• Silent Hill
• Metal Gear
• Castlevania
• Bomberman
• Bloody Roar
• Contra
• Gradius
• Frogger
• Goemon
• Zone of the Enders
• Suikoden
• Rocket Knight
• Adventure Island
• BONK
• Star Soldier
• Twinbee
• and more!

ALL
DEAD

Wow, this is a really depressing post.

It's really depressing that we will never get another Metal Gear, Silent Hill or Castlevania.

 

[SonyToo!™]

Probably not even contracted, since they're not interested in spending the budget an AAA game demands.

If so there goes Metal Gear Rising since it's AAA. None AAA, like Konami's arcade games are for the moment safe.

 

[omonimo]

I can understand from a business point of view, but what about their origins? Why to continue to produce with Konami name where there is nothing about Konami on it?

 

[Dr. Kitty Muffins]

Hopefully, they sell off Goemon to Nintendo, Sony or Sega. I want to see more Mystical Ninja games.

 

[Regulus Tera]

There's already a remake called Twin Snakes. Just buy a used GC and twin snakes on eBay.

Twin Snakes is a broken game and the only reason you should play it over the original is the improvements in voice acting.

 

[Caffeine]

Twin Snakes is a broken game and the only reason you should play it over the original is the improvements in voice acting.

the voice acting is terrible lol

Well this thread is starting to make a lot more sense-
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1107626

yea that actually makes a lot of sense reading it now.

 

[MagnaderAlpha]

Capcom's message to Konami:

 

[Brazil]

Buh-bye, Konami.

 

[Regulus Tera]

the voice acting is terrible lol

Mei Ling and her racist as shit voice acting in the PSX game made NO FUCKING SENSE.

 

[Scrub Mcgrubb]

It should be pointed out besides the entire Konami library... they've been sitting on all of Hudson's IP. Such a travesty for all these classic series to be basically dead forever now.

 

[jackal27]

• Silent Hill
• Metal Gear
• Castlevania
• Bomberman
• Bloody Roar
• Contra
• Gradius
• Frogger
• Goemon
• Zone of the Enders
• Suikoden
• Rocket Knight
• Adventure Island
• BONK
• Star Soldier
• Twinbee
• and more!

ALL
DEAD

There are more... So many more... Vandal Hearts man. I could almost double this list and it kills. Konami was one of my favorite pubs right up until 2009 or 10. This industry is changing too much for guys like me who love colorful, crazy Japanese action games... (and Suikoden)

 

[JimmyRustler]

Assuming they sell the IPs, good riddance. Assuming they don't, fuck you Konami.

 

[Ridley327]

It should be pointed out besides the entire Konami library... they've been sitting on all of Hudson's IP. Such a travesty for all these classic series to be basically dead forever now.

We were so close to a new 64-style Bomberman on the 3DS.

So close.

 

[NoctisVsStar]

There's already a remake called Twin Snakes. Just buy a used GC and twin snakes on eBay.

He means the msx MG1 not MGS1.

 

[Black_Red]

But... I really want rising 2 :c

 

[mobilesworking]

Is it possible that the company will continue to invest in "AA" console games, especially in light of that survey that made the rounds a few months back? If we take the $80M MGSV to mean AAA, perhaps Konami is only signaling that it will never again invest that much in the production of a single game.

Spoiler

I know, I know: wishful thinking. It's the Suikoden fan in me.

 

[Markoman]

• Silent Hill
• Metal Gear
• Castlevania
• Bomberman
• Bloody Roar
• Contra
• Gradius
• Frogger
• Goemon
• Zone of the Enders
• Suikoden
• Rocket Knight
• Adventure Island
• BONK
• Star Soldier
• Twinbee
• and more!

ALL
DEAD

Half of that list is nostalgia-heavy, though. I mean, yeah everbody loved Contra back then.
Man, create a new military ip with guys fighting soldiers and aliens and call it Power Comando. Frogger? Seriously? Castlevania was cool in the 80s/90s - the transititon to 3D was messed up. So yeah, nothing to cry about. This corpse has been rotten for a while now.

Only thing that bothers me. MGSV could have worked like Destiny. The engine and overall concept allowed a steady stream of new content for years. I mean they did it basically with releasing GZ stand-alone, but those morons did it the wrong way and even Kojima did not realize what he had at hand.

 

[Moon_frogger]

There's already a remake called Twin Snakes. Just buy a used GC and twin snakes on eBay.

I said mg1 not mgs1. Nobody is asking for a metal gear solid remake, haha

 

[Snaku]

Bye, bitch.

 

[ReturnOfTheRAT]

At least we got THE PHANTOM PAIN out of it.

 

[Bear Force One]

Time for a studio to spring up and make spiritual successors to all of them. Nonami?

 

[NoctisVsStar]

At least we got THE PHANTOM PAIN out of it.

Incomplete but at least kojima took every single penny he could to make that game awesome.

 

[Steel]

Someone could perhaps buy the MGS IP.

Why would they sell it when they can still make pachislot machines and mobile games with it?

 

[Steroyd]

I can understand from a business point of view, but what about their origins? Why to continue to produce with Konami name where there is nothing about Konami on it?

Their origins was a Jukebox repair and rental company lol.

But yeah, their games put them on the map and it's sad that they don't respect that as part of the company's history.

 

[IchigoSharingan]

..I guess they gave up on making a post-Kojima AAA Metal Gear? Didn't they want to hire a new team?

it was a bluff

 

[foxuzamaki]

Well there is is.

 

[Zoned]

its cute that they class PES as Triple A

Game is really popular on PC

 

[nOoblet16]

Why not sell their IP like Silent Hill and MGS then if they ain't gonna do shit with it ?
Not like they will be making mobile games on it.

 

[Garlador]

Why not sell their IP like Silent Hill and MGS then if they ain't gonna do shit with it ?
Not like they will be making mobile games on it.

They're making pachinko machines out of them already.

You can bet they'll make a cheap, low-budget, horrible Silent Hill mobile game at some point.

 

[Arzehn]

So... that Suikoden project Verendus has been teasing is...

 

[ZhugeEX]

yea that actually makes a lot of sense reading it now.

Yup. Konami are being stupid by cutting console development entirely.


But hey, here are PES sales. FYI Fifa is >15m each year. Do keep in mind that whilst PES sales are dropping you now have mobile version + monetisation built in to the games.

 

[Fury451]

At least they went out with a bang.

If MGSV truly was their last game in the series overall, and basically their last title of its kind ever, they went out with a whimper compared to what it could've been.

 

[J-Tier]

• Silent Hill
• Metal Gear
• Castlevania
• Bomberman
• Bloody Roar
• Contra
• Gradius
• Frogger
• Goemon
• Zone of the Enders
• Suikoden
• Rocket Knight
• Adventure Island
• BONK
• Star Soldier
• Twinbee
• and more!

ALL
DEAD

Damn. That hurts.

 

[dc89]

Sony should snap up Kojima Productions and the MGS IP.

Just let Kojima get on with it and produce a game every 5 years or so. They've bankrolled and stood by Team ICO all these years, please do the same with Kojima.

 

[ChimpanzeeThat]

They should do what Disney have been doing, license out their properties to other companies.

That is the only long shot hope we have at another Metal Gear Solid or Silent Hill.

 

[KeyChainDude]

I will miss some of their franchises, but this is for the best. They got too fucked up over the years.

 

[Floex]

Then what was that survey all about? :/

Konami even said it was legit.

 

[IchigoSharingan]

They should do what Disney have been doing, license out their properties to other companies.

That is the only long shot hope we have at another Metal Gear Solid or Silent Hill.

That would make money and sense.

Modern Konami does not approve.

 

[keuja]

I hope they utterly fail in their new strategy. Then they might consider selling their IPs to competent developpers.