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[RoboPlato]

Now let's see if they'll hold onto their old IPs like Sega or if they'll at least license them out.

 

[OttoSporteman]

Just here to post that PES is not on the level of AAA development since PS2 era.

The transition to HD/Online was not good to PES/Winning Eleven and EA was able to dominate and the further distance itself from Konami.

One could argue that there's no real competition between the two.

RIP Konami.

 

[Morts]

They have the Fox engine, they can farm out MGS and have a big open world game every fall. Take that, Assassin's Creed!

 

[ZhugeEX]

Fake Kaz strikes again

This guy gets me everytime!

 

[Gastone]

AAA console games aren't really some lucrative business venture with few exceptions. It makes sense from a business perspective. Mobile games are huge and don't cost nearly much as to develop. Same goes for Pachinko I suppose.

It´s lucrative if done right, and there are plenty of examples of that. It´s all good wanting to minimize development costs and time to maximize profits, but i think this is overdoing it.

Argh..i just hate mobile games, and i suppose i´m personally not okay with this move. At all.

 

[Vaughngief]

We're never gonna get Rising 2 are we?

 

[TronLight]

We're never gonna get Rising 2 are we?

Well Rising wasn't exactly AAA... Maybe A, AA at most. So there's a chance!

 

[papercan55]

Remember this from just three weeks ago?



Konami and Atlus must share the same PR team.

I remember everyone saying they wouldn't touch a metal gear game ever again because of how they treated kojima, and that without him the series would be be pointless.
For once konami listened to the fans, shouldn't you all be happy?

 

[Nanashrew]

• 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

Rocket Knight, Gradius, Bomberman, and Twinbee hurt me the most :<

 

[Chao]

I guess Koei Tecmo is the new Konami now.

 

[silvermember]

I see nothing wrong with it. I am not particularly attached to any of konami games except metal gear solid. If this is what they feel they must do then it if fine.

 

[Champomade]

Does anyone semi knowledgeable have a rough idea how much would the suikoden ip cost?

 

[VexyWexy]

Does anyone semi knowledgeable have a rough idea how much would the suikoden ip cost?

I dunno, but I'll go halfsies with you

 

[jelly]

Does anyone semi knowledgeable have a rough idea how much would the suikoden ip cost?

You can't afford it.

Is post launch support dead for MGS5, when do Konami officially stop giving a shit about that game ?

 

[The_Hitcher89]

Just here to post that PES is not on the level of AAA development since PS2 era.

The transition to HD/Online was not good to PES/Winning Eleven and EA was able to dominate and the further distance itself from Konami.

One could argue that there's no real competition between the two.

RIP Konami.

2012 was a while ago bruv

 

[WordsintheWater]

You can't afford it.

Is post launch support dead for MGS5, when do Konami officially stop giving a shit about that game ?

I think they stopped giving a shit about it a while ago

 

[virtualS]

Konami, what have they done to you?

For the love of God Nintendo, buy up their gaming IP.

 

[Rodney McKay]

With luck they'll be willing to lease out their properties for other companies to use.

They can get paid without doing any work, seems like it would be a win-win for them. Maybe something similar to what Namco did where indie developers could use their licenses, like Pacman 256.

 

[labx]

well at least there is not going to be a full DLC list for MGS V.

 

[GeekMarty]

Microsoft needs some IPs. They should buy MG and get Kojima on board lol.

 

[akidnamededdy]

Konami, what have they done to you?

For the love of God Nintendo, buy up their gaming IP.

They won't sell them. Nobody outright sells IP unless they're going out of business.

 

[Garrett Hawke]

They won't sell them. Nobody outright sells IP unless they're going out of business.

Yup. IP is super valuable because you never know when the opportunity will strike to make buck on it. I mean, look at Activision with Spyro - who would ever have thought they would make Skylanders money from the Spyro IP? It's probably also why they'll never give Crash back.

 

[keltickennedy]

 

[Red Devil]

Konami, what have they done to you?

For the love of God Nintendo, buy up their gaming IP.

I don't think they'll be willing to sell and more likely none of them is cheap, that and could Nintendo put them to good use?

 

[Scrub Mcgrubb]

They won't sell them. Nobody outright sells IP unless they're going out of business.

Epic seems to be doing pretty fine after selling Gears to Microsoft

 

[Dreadx_Jecht]

So... that suikoden game verendus was talking about is officially dead unless it's a mobile title.

 

[Pikma]

Someone could perhaps buy the MGS IP.

These fuckers were the ones who bought Hudson Soft just to shit on their IPs and then bury them, if you think they'd be willing to sell one of their own properties you're delusional.

 

[MDSLKTR]

Konami, what have they done to you?

For the love of God Nintendo, buy up their gaming IP.

I don't think they can even afford goemon

 

[ryutaro's mama]

Man...

 

[Ahasverus]

Please license your proerties ffs Konami

 

[statham]

Sad news.

 

[Garlador]

These fuckers were the ones who bought Hudson Soft just to shit on their IPs and then bury them, if you think they'd be willing to sell one of their own properties you're delusional.

Still can't believe they bought Hudson Soft and then shut them down less than half a year later.

I mean... WHY?!!

 

[dacuk]

I don't think they can even afford goemon

Being wrong is painless, it seems:

http://www.gengame.net/2014/06/nint...erm-investments-10-billion-in-current-assets/

"According to Nintendo&#8217;s consolidated balance sheet, the company currently has ¥474,297 million in &#8220;cash and deposits,&#8221; which comes out to $4,665,526,785.84 in US currency. Nintendo has ¥320,918 million locked up into short-term investment securities, which comes out to $3,156,157,928.04. All in all, Nintendo has ¥1,024,136 million, or just over $10 billion, in current assets. When you toss in non-current assets (property, machinery, etc), Nintendo has around $13 billion in total assets."

 

[Ahasverus]

Silent Hill and Castlevania, my favorite series, gone, just like that. Fuck this world.

 

[Scientist Supreme!]

Silent Hill and Castlevania, my favorite series, gone, just like that. Fuck this world.

Why are they gone?

 

[badcrumble]

Why are they gone?

Seriously. They'll be in pachinko machines for years to come.

 

[Blackstarhat]

At least they went out with a bang.

Yeah mgsv is a great game best game this gen so far.

 

[CambriaRising]

I don't think they can even afford goemon

Nintendo doesn't even want to make games using their own popular properties, much less buy someone else's.

 

[The perfect Dark]

Nintendo doesn't even want to make games using their own popular properties, much less buy someone else's.

Bayonetta?

 

[dolabla]

Fake Kaz strikes again

That is some funny shit right there.

 

[TheBlueBomber]

• [*]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

Oh god these hurt Edit: also i don't know why there's an extra bullet point lol

 

[BennyBlanco]

Still, they could have cultivated console games to be successful AND had mobile and pachinko machines (like, you know, most other Japanese console developers).

The reason they stopped being successful on console wasn't because the market changed; they stopped making games the market had enjoyed and buried their IPs. They have nobody to blame for their failures on console but themselves.

It's frustrating to see other companies succeed on console AND on mobile AND with pachinkos and Konami just decided to slice off that entire division altogether because they couldn't figure it out (even with a mountain of people telling them what they wanted).

It's the way the market is shifting. Capcom and Sega barely hanging on to to the console business. What is Capcom doing besides SFV which is being at least partially funded by Sony?

 

[Blackstarhat]

• 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

I'll miss all those franchises.

 

[Gabriel_Logan]

Christ, I wonder if he has anything to even do until December.

Those gyms need sweeping

 

[Zemm]

Why would any developer want to use Foxengine over UE4? Those posts make no sense to me.

 

[daegan]

Why would any developer want to use Foxengine over UE4? Those posts make no sense to me.

If you're Konami internal or published by? No cost. Plus it supports old gen.

 

[MrCunningham]

and the crowds are cheering

The PC side looks like it came from some sort of indie game.

 

[wwm0nkey]

If you're Konami internal or published by? No cost. Plus it supports old gen.

Eh old gen is dying hard

Like I get what you're saying, but I don't think last gen is important to devs anymore

 

[Zemm]

If you're Konami internal or published by? No cost. Plus it supports old gen.

I mean external to Konami. People earlier in the thread were saying they should license the engine out.

 

[Dantejerry]

This whole thing feels like that part in MGSV where

Spoiler

Huey gets off scott-free, drifting away out of sight on the lifeboat

. Konami...they'll get what's coming to them (a lot of pachinko money).