"Konami stops all AAA console production, except for PES - report"
"Konami is reportedly ceasing its AAA development efforts on all games except Pro Evolution Soccer.
"Following on from this morning’s report that Fox Engine director Julien Merceron has left Konami, a new report from the same French website says the publisher is not investing in AAA console games any more.
"The sole exception is the Pro Evolution Soccer series. That means no Metal Gear or Silent Hill to come, despite Konami’s earlier statements suggesting the former will continue."
No more Castlevania, either. No more Contra. No more of any of the games that once made Konami one of the top companies in the industry (and I don't consider Pro Evolution Whatever The Fuck to be one of those games). It's all about fucking mobile horseshit and goddamn pachinko machines now. Oh well... (EDIT) The thing is, though, it's not necessarily that Konami no longer wants to continue making console games, it's that they simply can't continue to make console games, because all of their half-way decent or better devs are leaving or have already left, due to them becoming incredibly shitty lately. But then, the reason that they're becoming incredibly shitty and the better devs are leaving is because, yes indeed, they no longer want to make big console games anymore. So... yeeeeeahh... like I said in the first place, it's because of mobile horseshit and pachinko, which they incorrectly believe to be the future of gaming. ¬_¬ In any case, Konami is now reaping what they have sown. (/EDIT)
Requiescat in pace, Konami. You are dead to me now.
It's always sad to see a once awesome game developer/publisher fall and fail so hard like this.
"Following on from this morning’s report that Fox Engine director Julien Merceron has left Konami, a new report from the same French website says the publisher is not investing in AAA console games any more.
"The sole exception is the Pro Evolution Soccer series. That means no Metal Gear or Silent Hill to come, despite Konami’s earlier statements suggesting the former will continue."
No more Castlevania, either. No more Contra. No more of any of the games that once made Konami one of the top companies in the industry (and I don't consider Pro Evolution Whatever The Fuck to be one of those games). It's all about fucking mobile horseshit and goddamn pachinko machines now. Oh well... (EDIT) The thing is, though, it's not necessarily that Konami no longer wants to continue making console games, it's that they simply can't continue to make console games, because all of their half-way decent or better devs are leaving or have already left, due to them becoming incredibly shitty lately. But then, the reason that they're becoming incredibly shitty and the better devs are leaving is because, yes indeed, they no longer want to make big console games anymore. So... yeeeeeahh... like I said in the first place, it's because of mobile horseshit and pachinko, which they incorrectly believe to be the future of gaming. ¬_¬ In any case, Konami is now reaping what they have sown. (/EDIT)
Requiescat in pace, Konami. You are dead to me now.
It's always sad to see a once awesome game developer/publisher fall and fail so hard like this.