Kojima quits?

[GSZX1337]

*cocks head*
Metal Gear, huh? Eh, let me know when Konami brings Gradius back.
*goes back to reading newspaper*

[BoneSnapDeez]

Frogger needs to come back. GLC still has the high score from what I recall.

I also demand a reboot of Turtles. No, not Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, but Turtles:
http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detai ... e_id=10226

[Damm64]

Keeping in mind that all the information show in this video can be considered rumor, it's still a nice slice of info of what konami could be doing in the future.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMK-kajdgMA

[MiG-31]

Silent Hills has sadly become gaming's equivalent of Jodorowsky's Dune*.

(though out of the aftermath of that film being cancelled, was born Alien...)

[Ack]

Keeping in mind that all the information show in this video can be considered rumor, it's still a nice slice of info of what konami could be doing in the future.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMK-kajdgMA

You know what this makes this sound like? Aruze Corp. purchasing SNK and using them for gambling machines instead of video games. Only in this case, it's Konami itself that is interested in breaking away from games to focus more on gambling devices.

It's a shame too, all around. But I figured a lot of those guys will jump ship and be able to find work elsewhere.

[Damm64]

You know what this makes this sound like? Aruze Corp. purchasing SNK and using them for gambling machines instead of video games. Only in this case, it's Konami itself that is interested in breaking away from games to focus more on gambling devices.

It's a shame too, all around. But I figured a lot of those guys will jump ship and be able to find work elsewhere.

Never knew about that, now i know why it's called SNK Playmore.

Something that im really noticing with some of the big old companies is that it appears they forgot what made their franchises great and memorable and now are working 100% for profit, i know that's why they're in the first place of course but when you put that over the freedom of the developer to do a good game it becomes a issue not only to the players or the franchise but to your company itself.

We just need to wait and see what happens with konami, but at this point i won't be surprised if they end up leaving console game development.

[TEKTORO]

I'm still blaming Call of Duty, I never seen so many people flock before.

[darsparx]

Keeping in mind that all the information show in this video can be considered rumor, it's still a nice slice of info of what konami could be doing in the future.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMK-kajdgMA

You know what this makes this sound like? Aruze Corp. purchasing SNK and using them for gambling machines instead of video games. Only in this case, it's Konami itself that is interested in breaking away from games to focus more on gambling devices.

It's a shame too, all around. But I figured a lot of those guys will jump ship and be able to find work elsewhere.

Ehh maybe one of them will make another decent yugioh type game with a actual world to explore and everything(that's why I loved the gba titles in the first place even if I've never been able to sit down and beat them like I really want too). It'd be nice if some developer would go back to kind've developing like companies did in the ps2 era and earlier where they had to pull some stunts and be creative to make a really good game on the hardware available back then. I've already started to lose a lot of hope in companies like this beyond nintendo(because heck most of the games they put out or publish are still good from what I've seen). The smaller ones and startups seem to have a good idea right now of what games to make and how to do them better(at least for me not being a fps, or horror fan so yeah....)

[Tanooki]

I'm still blaming Call of Duty, I never seen so many people flock before.

It's definitely one of the big problems in the room. Herd mentality running towards the yearly full price rehash. It makes that stuff a safe and easy bet to have money handed to you with far less effort than risking doing something fun and original. Right out of the EA Sports playbook really. Couple it with the hideous development costs, in no part at all by their own fault going overly big hollywood level budget on projects, and you have it very easy to have quitters, mergers, and bankruptcies.

[Blu]

I'm not surprised honestly. The move off the NYSE was a cost-saving measure and a change with how the market is. In the past few years, though, look at how many publishers and developers have shifted gears, become defunct, acquired, etc.

Sega is only on Nintendo consoles at the moment.
Hudson was bought up by Konami.
Capcom is stagnant.
THQ is gone.
Square Enix is a shell of what it once was.
Acclaim is gone.
Bizarre Creations bought up by Activision, gone now.
What happened to Atari, multiple times.
Crytek is gone.
Ensemble Studios.
Midway Games.
Bandai Namco is doing what nowadays?
Neversoft is gone.
Red Octane.
Silicon Knights

I mean, there's plenty of changes that these companies go through. But the talent of the people always finds a way. It's a shame that franchises that were the intellectual design of Kojima, Yuji Naka, Sakaguchi, et al, are the property of huge companies, but that's the reality. Hopefully Kojima gets a new company up and running and we see some new and innovative things from him in the time to come.