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Konami won't be doing any more AAA console games (except games currently in production)

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After their CEO said "Mobile is where the future of gaming lies", we kind of expected this, and reports say it has happened. Even more, Julien Merceron, their company’s worldwide technology director has decided to leave the studio as well. 

As mentioned, there will however be two exceptions, Metal Gear Online and PES 16 that are currently in production, and there are no other AAA console games in planning, and considering how most of their AAA PC games are ports...

 

The site claims to have been told by several sources that "no recruitment [was] actually undertaken" following the firm's recruitment call earlier this year, either.

 

"Worse, apart from the series Winning Eleven / PES, no AAA game is currently in pre-production at Konami" the report adds. "All current console projects have been stopped or canceled by the new management."

Both of the aforementioned sites note that, with release of Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain and PES 2016, Konami now has a blank schedule in terms of triple-A console releases.

 

This was "confirmed" by Rika Muranaka, a composer at Konami that worked on Metal Geat and Castlevania titles:

 

 

Sad to see this happening, many of us grew with Konami among others, but it was just a matter of time considering the recent events happening at Konami. I hope they actually sell their IP's to other game studios, and not just let them gather dust in case they change their minds.

Sources: 1, 2, 3  and every game website out there

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*sigh*

 

Welcome to the mobile market Konami. I hope your fan base will enjoy the micro transactions..

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*sigh*

 

Welcome to the mobile market Konami. I hope your fan base will enjoy the micro transactions..

And slot machines.

Don't forget the slot machines.

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Please, Konami, no in-app purchases...

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I really enjoyed the Pro Evolution Soccer franchise. Time to buy the football (soccer) games produced by EA then.

I always though it was superior to FIFA (I have my reasons), and even though I don't play Sport games anymore, this is the one that I can always just grab and play with friends.

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DDR, Yu-Gi-Oh, suikoden, TMNT, all dead.

And the legendary crash bandicoot is probably one that will go in the books of history as a legend...

 

If you want to know what sh*t we get, it's stuff like sudoku and stupid card games, GG.

 

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Oh yea, and i don't think mobile is your future konami, the amount of android games released this year are, oh what a suprise, 0

and that number will appear more and more if you don't get your sh*t together.

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And the legendary crash bandicoot is probably one that will go in the books of history as a legend...

 

Oh don't worry, Konami doesn't own Crash. Recently Naughty Dog said they would like to make a reboot as well.  :lol:

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Oh don't worry about crash, Konami doesn't own Crash. Recently Naughty Dog said they would like to make a reboot as well.  :lol:

I really hope he gets saved from this crap. He doesn't deserve this :(

 

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Not surprising. Gaming industry is too risky as a business. In order to make a good game they need more money, but having a good game doesn't always net enough money to counter what was spent to make that game good and marketable. The only thing I don't like about Konami's transition (based on previous reports) is how bad the employees were treated during the development of MGSV.

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bye bye

its been a good run

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im amazed they waiting this long, i was expecting the day after mgs5 to let us know the ship was leaving port

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Shoot yourself in the foot.

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At least they waited until the MG story was done.

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Again the copyright law should be such that when a company makes a bullshit decision like this they would be legally compelled to license the franchises to whomever might want to continue with them.

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So no more console AAA games, but PC AAA games now? :D

You wish  :lol:

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You wish  :lol:

:(

 

I never played any of their games except MGSV recently, so I'm not too saddened by this, but with the recent PC release I was hoping for more from them. Oh well.

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Welp.... Konami is dead.

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Bullshit Konami, let me rephrase your statement,

"Mobile is where the future of money lies". 

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