NEW SILENT HILL FROM HIDEO KOJIMA AND GUILLERMO DEL TORO

[Noodle Lizard]

Well I guess because it's promotion for something that's not going to happen. I guess they probably have to pay to have it hosted on the servers so it's not worth it.

I don't suppose removing the trailer at the end and charging for it would be a move they could make either.

That'd seem like the obvious solution, I'd have thought.

EDIT: sorry, really banal post to start a new page.

[Mister Six]

Ah, fuck.

[wooders1978]

Ah, fuck.

Ultimately - yes

[Hollow]

I wonder what's going on at Konami, I can't remember the last time such a high profile game just went 'poof'.

[Consignia]

I wonder what's going on at Konami, I can't remember the last time such a high profile game just went 'poof'.

There's loads of rumours at the moment. I hear they are wrapping up most of their games division and focusing on gambling and pachinko.

There's also apparently been a massive fallout with Kojima and Konami's CEO.

[Hollow]

Really? Oh god....this is massive if correct.

No more Konami? That's just surreal.

Japanese games companies seem to be faltering left, right and centre.

Konami have not been the games company they were in the SNES years for a while...but this? Literally shocking...more shocking than news of Sega's problems.

I'm off for a good play on Ganbare Goemon 2, forget about all this...before the Treasure split they were awesome.

573.

[Ignatius_S]

Konami announced restructuring for its games studios and from what was said, it sounded, it would be concentrating on mobile and gambling.

New article today, which I thought was decent: http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2015-04-30-what-is-happening-at-konami

[Hollow]

Thanks...I wonder if Capcom are next, like a house of cards...all roads lead to Nintendo, that would be my cue to exit this all-consuming pastime.

Konami I can deal with...they've been the Metal Gear co. for a while now anyway...but not them.

I bet Kojima is kicking his heels in delight, finally he can stop making them.

[Hollow]

Is The Phantom Pain coming out? It's the first metal gear I've been vaguely interested in.

[Mister Six]

If Nintendo go down, I'll bet they get bought out by a US company.

[Consignia]

To be honest, I don't really have much affection for Konami. Whilst it's bad to see a big company go, they never really created much I was interested bar a select few titles such as Metal Gear and the first couple of Silent Hills. So I'm really just shrugging when I hear them dropping out, sadly.

[Hollow]

What about Castlevania?

[Hollow]

If Nintendo go down, I'll bet they get bought out by a US company.

That would be a disaster...it would kill the little boy version of me stone dead.

[Consignia]

What about Castlevania?

Yeah, I never really got into them. The only one I really liked was that GBA one, Circle of The Moon. I don't like the Winning Eleven/Pro Evo games either.

Of course I'm not saying that Konami hasn't produced lot's of worthy stuff. They've clearly got some well loved stuff in their libraries. Just sadly not for me.

[Ignatius_S]

Although Nintendo in 2012 recorded the first full-year loss in its entire history, the company quickly returned to profitability and to put things in perspective, it currently has five billion dollars in cash at bank and I think double that other assets. It rumoured that the company is about to post a profit of slightly more than $200 million for the last financial quarter.

Nintendo has said it's going to be looking to leverage it IP more, has announced a strategic deal with DeNA over mobile gaming and amiibos have been generating new income (in about the first two months, 5.7 million figures were sold worldwide; in the States, in the first month, Nintendo reportedly made over $8 million). It's also pushing Splatoon massively (and IIRC, has a new PR company in the UK for this) and I think believes it's got a big new IP on its hand – we'll have to see, but I don't think things are quite as black for the company as often said.

[Consignia]

Konami have got quite a lot of cash in the bank as well, but I think they it as too marginal to keep in the console games industry. I suppose they have other interests, unlike Nintendo.