Konami main focus to mobile gaming

[Trippled]

Konamis line-up on mobile is very uninterresting in terms of the japanese publishers, sports and kids titles hooray.

Square Enix and Sega seem to have more interresting approach.

[Nirmugen]

Although that SD baseball game and Winning Eleven S are making money, I find the others games uninteresting and I don't know why they're different from others apps.

Sega also have a Football and a Baseball app that are more commendable with their input, I mean they have options if you doesn't want sports apps.

I don't really know how Konami would handled an old IP for mobiles. The same I could say for the upcoming Nintendo/DeNA ones but that's another problem.

[Team Andromeda]

Sad to see Konami go this way , SEGA Japan will be next and then most of Japan . Sadly its a short-term measure that will cost the corps and Japan in the end . The Phone market is far more ruthless than the console market and its hard for any corp to make sure they make enough new hit games every couple of months , year in , year out.

[George]

They should port Metal Gear AC!D games on mobile:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vh4-mmFD_po

Knowing them they will convert the system to random card packs and stamina bars. But I guess that could work.

[Team Andromeda]

Konami did make Metal Gear Solid: Social Ops for the mobile

[George]

I didn't know. There ya go. While I agree with you TA that mobile gaming isn't a walk in the park, its a lot easier for companies to experiment and still have success. I think the console market is more saturated with developers than mobile is, believe it or not. American publishers are dominating and it doesn't seem like it will stop anytime soon. Even Sony has less Japanese made games and more Western. The only company that has big studios cranking out games all year round is Nintendo. Capcom doesn't either, they are also moving to mobile and F2P, they let go of a ton of talent and even you can admit that.

If consoles where so easy for success, why are all Japanese companies not finding it anymore?

[Team Andromeda]

American publishers are dominating and it doesn't seem like it will stop anytime soon

I know and given Mobile are a western product its not a supprise really . I like the EA model of having a big focus on both consoles and Mobile myself ..

The only company that has big studios cranking out games all year round is Nintendo. Capcom doesn't either, they are also moving to mobile and F2P, they let go of a ton of talent and even you can admit that.

I don't get what you mean really, unless you mean a corp that is only focused on console games and nothing at all to do with Mobile .

Capcom been on mobile and taking mobile serious since 2003 when it set up its mobile divsions , yes its true to say they've going more on mobile and have set up a new HQ to handle their mobile side of things, they're still backing consoles and PC gaming for the time being though.

If consoles where so easy for success, why are all Japanese companies not finding it anymore[/size]

Japan is doing what it does best and that's looking inwards all the time . When PC gaming was massive and huge , Japan didn't seem to care at all and when most of America was turning it back on consoles, Japan didn't care at all.  Japanese corps just can't seen to cope with modern gaming and the likes of FPS, sandbox and online that Western gamers expect and take for granted these days .


Sure making Mobile games is less risk, but you have a short time span on Mobiles before you have to come up with your next hit , given the play time and cost of most mobile games. Its pretty sad to see Japan back mobile so much and its will cost their videogame industry very dear in the long term imo   

[Trippled]

Konami throwing away Silent Hill, Metal Gear and the FOX Engine is just mind boggling still.

I mean I don't blame Sega of Japan at all, seeing as they have no pretty much no western hit aside from Sonic...

[George]

I don't think they ever said they where leaving consoles, just that main focus is mobile. If anything they never said they weren't going to use the Fox Engine. They could port it to mobile phones (lol). But they also said that Silent Hill and Metal Gear Solid franchises where going to continue, I heard something about how they want other developers to take the helm.

The issue really is that Konami wants cheaper developed games, but tried this with Silent Hill and it basically killed the franchise. Like remember the Silent Hill HD ports? The fucking thing wasn't even done and never got patched to work correctly.

So yeah, probably best if they just leave the console space.

[Trippled]

Cancelling Silent Hills is the most idiotic move I have ever seen tough.

[George]

I guess there is more we don't know. How expensive do you think having a hollywood actor and director attached to the project was? How complete was the game at this point? How much was Kojima asking for?

Konami probably saw other 'horror' games and how they did and pulled the plug. They probably weren't impressed with how much Alien Isolation and Evil Within did, not to mention those two games would probably cost less than this new Silent Hills games.

Didn't they just get a new CEO? So, I assume what the older CEO approved of, this new one doesn't. Aka over budget games.

We shall see what they say, I hear Konami will comment about the whole Kojima thing soon enough.