Kojima Leaving Konami After MGS5?

[assassinz]

I hope Nintendo backs him just like they did with the Bayonetta 2 team.

 

[miamore]

and he applies for square-enix

 

[2Hack]

and he applies for square-enix

This dude doesn't need to apply man. They send their resumes to him.

 

[miamore]

This dude doesn't need to apply man. They send their resumes to him.

yes! it will be awesome. if kojima doesnt waste its talent.. just on Metal Gear Solid series. maybe its time for them to get out of the box. i mean snake is getting old even in the series. and the game too is getting boring sometimes

 

[WiiCube_2013]

Never been much of a fan from Konami games but it's still a shame that MGS is having its heart taken out.

Although if there's one game I'd like to see released that'd be Metal Gear Rising 2! I loved MGR on the 360!

 

[Trevor Belmont]

May be the beginning of the end for Konami as we know it. Less they become the next Capcom with rehash fever hitting the streets. How about a new Contra for pete's sake...?

 

[tony_2018]

If they can comeback with an awesome "Contra" remake maybe...just maybe...

 

[sarkwalvein]

If they can comeback with an awesome "Contra" remake maybe...just maybe...

Contra is too hardcore, it is the opposite way of their new direction. Citing an interview to Igarashi from Polygon:

"The more hardcore the game... the less suitable it is for the casual market,"[...]
"Unfortunately, I'm good at making core experiences, so it was two years of making a game that leaned too 'hardcore' for the social market. So it was canceled. Then I'd try again and be canceled. And again and be canceled."[...]
Igarashi's move from creating core games to social games was largely driven by Konami's internal direction, he said. He stepped away from making 2D Castlevania games because, he said, while Konami recognized that its 2D legacy franchises had a passionate fanbase, it saw the video game business moving in a different direction.[...]
So, emboldened by fans' requests and disappointed by his inability to complete the social games he was developing, he left Konami.

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Konami can burn in hell already.

 

[tony_2018]

No doubt castlevania was moving in a different direction. It just didn't feel right. As for Contra yea there's not much you can do with it so thank god for emulators.

 

[GHANMI]

Konami isn't a very dev friendly environment, and that goes since the nineties.

For reference, the reason why they shut down Hudson was also another "power struggle" where some Konami exec was angry with the creator of Momotarou Dentetsu (a popular board game that consistently generates 500k~ sales every year even after 20 years) so as a "Fuck You" they just killed the entire Hudson company.

Arcade and NES platformer devs at Konami were treated like shit, so a lot of them went and created Treasure.
Same goes for their shump guys.
Their SNES-era platformer devs (Sparkster, Goemon, Castlevania, Madara RPG), like Ebisu-san's team, who then went and made Good Feel, now working with Nintendo.
Then Team Silent.
And Suikoden and Igarashi (Castlevania), who lasted a while longer relegated to the humiliation of making abysmal mobile junk (even below licensed anime stuff, where you can still see some of the passion), then got fed up and just resigned to start preparing for going independent.
This week, it was the remaining Tokimeki Memorial/Love Plus guys.

It got worse lately. Even though Konami's overall business is healthy right now (with the casino stuff) their game dev division is the one still generating the bulk of the profit (and even their only casino machines succeeding are ones with videogame branding) and the last few years, as a result of them lowering game development drastically, their video game sales are seeing a really steep sharp decline, and their recent mobile/arcade endeavors aren't doing good.

It's gratifying to see their PR scrambling to release terrified press releases ensuring investors that development on Love Plus and MGS will continue, after treating their devs like shit. Their situation is very different than Capcom - which, while also bleeding lots of talent (Gotcha Force dev, Resident Evil dev (Mikami), Tomba dev, IntiCreate (they still work with them though), Platinium/Clover, and if that even counts Inafune..), they at least weren't complete assholes mistreating all talent or killing IPs left and right without backup plans (compare Capcom cancelling MML3 and reusing its assets for Gaist Crush and EX.Troopers, while Konami cancels games/series as a net loss).

 

[KingVamp]

Well, we all know what happened and is still happening with Megaman... Poor Megaman.

 

[Trevor Belmont]

Konami isn't a very dev friendly environment, and that goes since the nineties.

For reference, the reason why they shut down Hudson was also another "power struggle" where some Konami exec was angry with the creator of Momotarou Dentetsu (a popular board game that consistently generates 500k~ sales every year even after 20 years) so as a "Fuck You" they just killed the entire Hudson company.

I didn't know they're the ones who killed Hudson Soft...
Damn them for pissing on my childhood memories.

 

[easycrashing]

Sad, MGS1 is still my favorite game.

 

[Pablitox]

yes! it will be awesome. if kojima doesnt waste its talent.. just on Metal Gear Solid series. maybe its time for them to get out of the box. i mean snake is getting old even in the series. and the game too is getting boring sometimes

I'd love another Boktai.

 

[Abdelatif]

So no more MGS ?