Konami officially pulling out of releasing console games.

[MrBroadway]

I don't even know what game that is but I can tell it's a shit game. Nobey? No way!

[toymachine78]

There is no need for publishers now. Same is true for music. You can code/record it yourself now for cheaper, as long As you find a distribution outlet like amazon or kickstarter.

 Edit: books too . there is so much direct distribution now.

[ProfessorProfessorson]

I don't even know what game that is but I can tell it's a shit game. Nobey? No way!

It's Art of Fighting for the NeoGeo.

[Punch]

Yakuza is one of the best game series from the late and current gen... you don't know what you're missing  . It's OK to nobey sometimes, as Johnny Turbo would demonstrate by working with SEGA after TTi closed shop.

[MrBroadway]

I do some modern nobey, but much less than the glory years, and mostly games that still capture that classic aesthetic (shooters, 2D platformers, even Civ 5 isn't fundamentally "modern" in mechanics). I've found these 3D action games to be very boring, and Yakuza looks like more of the same.

[Mathius]

Mobile gaming has turned real games into vending machine products. The least amount of product using the cheapest ingredients possible just to keep our fingers busy for a short amount of time.

Dammit Konami. Just dammit.

[slinkyturd]

Downloadable content and the necessity of internet access for your console has killed home console gaming. It's so bad at this point that all the consoles are so terrible no one wants to actually buy them. It used to be that you would know exactly what console you wanted and you knew you'd be happy with that decision. It's a big damn mess cause really, other than a giant relief to the weight of your wallet, what is the difference between last gen and current gen systems? Not a whole damn much. It's stagnant and nothing actually innovative is coming out, just gimmicks that will be short lived and soon forgotten.

Spend $400 for a new system and a single game to get what? a weeks worth of pleasure before you own that game (figuratively)?

Spend $30-$60 on a 16 bit era system and the rest of that $400 on a pile of games for a year's worth of fun. Or spend less than $150 for the system and the everdrive and the rest on hookers and blow.

This really is a no brainer! It's sad how this industry has crumbled and fallen to the shell of itself that it now is.

[TR0N]

Konami announce they will be concentrating fully on mobile games.
I know everyone saw this coming but now it's official.
http://jin115.com/archives/52080348.html

"We will pursue mobile games aggressively," says Konami's new CEO Hayakawa in an interview with Nikkei Trendy Net.

"Our main platform will be mobiles. Following the pay-as-you-play model of games like Power pro and Winning Eleven with additional content, our games must move from selling things like "items" to selling things like "features."

"We saw with these games that even people who buy physical games are motivated to buy extra content. The success of Power pro especially has motivated us to actively push more of our popular series onto mobile than ever before."

"Gaming has spread to a number of platforms, but at the end of the day, the platform that is always closest to us, is mobile. Mobile is where the future of gaming lies."

"We hope that our overseas games such as MGSV and Winning Eleven continue to do well, but we are always thinking about how to push our franchises onto mobile there too."

"With multiplatform games, there's really no point in dividing the market into categories anymore. Mobiles will take on the new role of linking the general public to the gaming world."

Those men in the ivory tower have clearly lost it.Then again it seems most japanese developers are out of touch with gamers.Going from snkplaymore,sega,nintendo among others have jumped on the mobile gaming bandwagon.I can't say of blame then again it is profitable but i still find it to be a disappointment.Once MGSV comes out that will be the last game id buy from konami.I could care less there will be focusing more on mobile gaming and i hope they lose money on it but i doubt it.

[glazball]

The Dude: "That's a .... bummer man.  That's a bummer"

I was hoping this wouldn't happen too, but alas...  you'll be missed Konami.  Played Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 on PS3 earlier this year and loved it.  I guess Metal Gear Solid V will be our last hurrah.

f*ck mobile gaming.  f*ck mobile gaming in the ass.

[ClodBuster]

I once tried the Lords of Shadow demo on Xbox 360, but returned to Drac X on the Wii in the end. I think the fact that I want instant action and simple controls from a Castlevania from the second when I turn the game on is what killed my interest in LoS.

Repost from Nightwolve:

Cleaning house, making way for "Konami: International Gambling Masters."

[slinkyturd]

The 2 Castlevanias on PS2 are 3d but both awesome in their own right.

[TR0N]

The Dude: "That's a .... bummer man.  That's a bummer"

I was hoping this wouldn't happen too, but alas...  you'll be missed Konami.  Played Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 on PS3 earlier this year and loved it.  I guess Metal Gear Solid V will be our last hurrah.

f*ck mobile gaming.  f*ck mobile gaming in the ass.

You mean f*ck japan right  Consoles in japan are becoming irrelevant and mobile gaming has become popular,that's why japanese developers are jumping on the bandwagon.

[Dicer]

Good riddance to the Hudson killers...

[glazball]

You mean f*ck japan right  Consoles in japan are becoming irrelevant and mobile gaming has become popular,that's why japanese developers are jumping on the bandwagon.

Ha, I love Japanese games.  Though iirc, Lords of Shadow was developed in Spain and I always thought it had a certain Pan's Labyrinth vibe to it.  Both are highly underrated.

I don't care where the games come from though, as long as they are solid.  I just want to play them on a console, with 7.1 sound and sharp graphics <insert Tim the Tool Man grunt here>, on a couch in my home, not on a tiny ass screen like a 5-grader at recess.

Why Konami, why??

[cr8zykuban0]

r.i.p. konami.

mobile games aren't the future, its the path to their destruction