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[Petrae]

Konami still makes bank on slot machine sales and maintenance, so there won't be any kind of bankruptcy-related IP fire sale. It'll be interesting to see what Konami does with its video game division. Sit on it? Sell it?

Very curious, very sad situation.

 

[Raide]

I have always thought Kojima's name was bigger than is actual ability with making games. Konami have obviously been riding that for years, so it will be interesting to see what Kojima does next. Another larger studio or strike out on his own?

 

[Josh5890]

Well this is easily the biggest gaming story of the yesr,

 

[deeptech]

So MGSV really is his final MGS ? ...

I'm sad.

Kojima has been making MG games for almost 30 years. He's ending it with what will probably be the best game in the series and one of best games ever made. It had to end someday, it's not all that bad really. I'm honestly better with ending it on a high note, than dragging the dead dog like Activision,Ubisoft and others tend to do.

Still who knows what future might bring, Kojima may be leaving Konami but it doesn't mean he can't ever come back and do another one. Although that's pretty unlikely. Konami also may find someone else to make MG, who knows. Maybe the turn it into a mobile game or something, lol

 

[KazenY2J]

Damn, what happens to Silent Hills now?

 

[AcceptableGhost]

2015:
Nintendo announces partnership with DeNA.
Konami shutter Kojima Productions and Hideo Kojima leaves game development.
Capcom stops all business development in preparation for Nintendo acquisition.

2016:
Nintendo purchases Capcom, Capcom now the Monster Hunter mobile app development studio.
Nintendo merges with DeNA and Shigeru Miyamoto retires from games development to teach at Tokyo Polytechnic.
Reeling after ceasing development on Metal Gear Rising 2, Platinum works on licensed anime game with six month development cycle. Game sits at 61% on Metacritic.

2017:
Kadokawa Corporation pivots away from media to invest in burgeoning smart rice cooker market. Closes FROM. Hidetaka Miyazaki joins Miyamoto and Pac-Man creator Toru Iwatani at Tokyo Polytechnic.
Keita Takahashi makes F2P spiritual sequel to Noby Noby Boy. Now completely sex-negative North American indie community that once took Takahashi in shuns him due to implicit sexuality of game. Takahashi again leaves game development.
Platinum releases a sequel to licensed anime game. It has 55% Metacritic average.

2018:
Platinum closes its doors.

2019:
Keita Takahashi records album with Jim O’Rourke on which he makes barnyard animal noises while playing the spoons. Album is WIRE Magazine’s record of the year.

2020:
Treasure release Radiant Silvergun on Steam.

amazing post

the 2020 prediction seems far fetched though

 

[Jarmel]

Probably left to die after MGSV is over. Kojima and his colleagues will have to resort to licensing UE4 or something if they open a new studio.

He could theoretically license the engine from Konami as well. However since Konami is burning bridges, I doubt that will happen.

 

[The Sarcastic Dude]

Wow

 

[The_Almighty_Swan]

Konami still makes bank on slot machine sales and maintenance, so there won't be any kind of bankruptcy-related IP fire sale. It'll be interesting to see what Konami does with its video game division. Sit on it? Sell it?

Very curious, very sad situation.

Totally agree here. I guess it's just sad to see things end this way for Kojima

 

[Dragonborn]

Well Konami can go right into my no buy pile. Why would they treat Kojima this way?

 

[Cyd0nia]

Could you pick a worse studio than Nintendo? The least story driven studio with the Kojima. Fucking lol. Can't wait to see what he does next.

So.. you're saying he'd give them something they don't already have?

I now hope it happens. For the Ricky Gervais lulz

Konami are dead without this man. That or they'll suddenly remember all the other franchises they have.

 

[Cisab]

for god's sake sell Silent Hills to someone who can carry it through if you don't want to do it yourself, Konami. They'd be idiots to burn all the buzz it created

I doubt Sony will let Silent Hills die.

 

[SerOnionKnight]

Can't be much worse than MGS4!

Exactly. The mess of a story in 4 made MGS2 seem like a great narrative.

 

[N30RYU]

Well Konami can go right into my no buy pile. Why would they treat Kojima this way?

'cause Kojima>Konami... and that's not good for Konami's CEO ego.

 

[Fine Ham Abounds]

2015:
Nintendo announces partnership with DeNA.
Konami shutter Kojima Productions and Hideo Kojima leaves game development.
Capcom stops all business development in preparation for Nintendo acquisition.

2016:
Nintendo purchases Capcom, Capcom now the Monster Hunter mobile app development studio.
Nintendo merges with DeNA and Shigeru Miyamoto retires from games development to teach at Tokyo Polytechnic.
Reeling after ceasing development on Metal Gear Rising 2, Platinum works on licensed anime game with six month development cycle. Game sits at 61% on Metacritic.

2017:
Kadokawa Corporation pivots away from media to invest in burgeoning smart rice cooker market. Closes FROM. Hidetaka Miyazaki joins Miyamoto and Pac-Man creator Toru Iwatani at Tokyo Polytechnic.
Keita Takahashi makes F2P spiritual sequel to Noby Noby Boy. Now completely sex-negative North American indie community that once took Takahashi in shuns him due to implicit sexuality of game. Takahashi again leaves game development.
Platinum releases a sequel to licensed anime game. It has 55% Metacritic average.

2018:
Platinum closes its doors.

2019:
Keita Takahashi records album with Jim O’Rourke on which he makes barnyard animal noises while playing the spoons. Album is WIRE Magazine’s record of the year.

2020:
Treasure release Radiant Silvergun on Steam.

This is easily the best post you have ever made, and I now forgive you for finding the Mega Man series boring

 

[Ridley327]

Despite my strong feeling towards Konami and their mishandling of IPs over the years, I can't find myself being angry about this move to finally get out of packaged games. It's what they want, and as much as it kills me to know they've got so many great IPs that they will now lock right up next to Hudson Soft's corpse, I'd rather this way with dropping any pretense about caring about any of it than stringing people along that hey, maybe, just maybe, they'll get back to their former glory as a developer. It sucks that they're doing Kojima wrong like this as a result, but this needed to happen in some way, shape or form.

Assuming Kojima still wants to keep making games, he is going to have zero problems getting something off the ground, and I'm sure he'll be more than happy to bring a big chunk of the senior KojiPro staff along with him. And if he wants to take a break from this whole scene? I can think of very few guys more deserving than him.

 

[spookyfish]

Damn, what happens to Silent Hills now?

I want to know this myself ...

 

[aerts1js]

Is everyone so sure Silent Hills is dead? I mean PT generated a ton of buzz and interest you'd think Konami would want to capitalize on that with or without Hideo.

The game we were all hoping for is dead and now its going to turn out crappy like all the silent hills of late.

 

[javac]

I think that the best outcome is if Kojima makes his own little studio and creates a load of little passion projects. I'm sure he has loads of ideas in his head. People shudder at the idea of mobile, but I can see the man creating a load of immersive and interesting projects no matter the platform, size or budget, but as always, small games doesn't necessarily have to be mobile.

 

[SnowFlakeCake]

The man is in a very envious position though which a select few could ever dream of. He has got to be loaded after all these years so it is a possibility he could retire and live a happy life. He is also a big name in the gaming industry, one of the big publishers would snap him up very quickly to get a game made from him. Lastly he could go independent by using kickstarter or some shit, he would get serious backing.

I couldn't care less about no more MGS games seeing how MGS2 and MGS4, the two I played were simply awful. But he gave hope for Silent Hill and it seems to be dashed, I won't forget this! :'(

 

[Lakitu]

Just start a new studio up with Sony and give us the third entry in the Snatcher / Policenauts trilogy.

 

[teiresias]

I can only be but so sad about the prospect that Kojima will be able to do something new and laugh as Konami flounders around in an industry they don't understand anymore.

 

[wildfire]

Holy shit. I never thought this would happen. I pretty much thought Kojima was almost running Konami.

And that's exactly why Kojima was ousted. This really is Game of Thrones with Komjima studios playing the role of house Greyjoy and Konami playing the role of Starks, but less likeable.

 

[nictron]

So is Konami going to release Kojima at E3?

Someone should make a "Are you sure you want to release Hideo?" game boy jpg.

 

[Defunkled]

If I'm Sony/Nintendo/Microsoft I'm doing everything in my power to get Kojima on board.

 

[Omnipunctual Godot]

Damn, end of an era. This really is the last MGS

Not necessarily, but it's going to be the last Kojima MGS.

 

[Exr]

End of an era but great news for Kojima....what happens to the FOX engine? Will Konami focus more on the true glory that is pachinko now?

 

[Punchy4486]

 

[Chinpoko_Master]

Damn, this is tragic news. I hope another studio like Dreamworks or Paramount picks him up.

 

[LegendofDragoonLives]

Who's being pedantic?

Nintendo as a whole doesn't make story centric games, but they leave directors to do as they please. I don't think Kojima would ever get everything he could ever want from Nintendo (as in resources), but he would have all the creative freedom he could ever want.

That said, Nintendo would never approach him.

He would get the creative freedom he wants anywhere he goes, he's Kojima. That doesn't mean shit. His games on the Wii U unless there's a next gen Wii U 2 would also be a huge waste for him.

You realise that Ninendo has more story driven franchises than MS and Sony combined right?

What heavy story driven games did they release last gen on consoles other than Xenoblade?

 

[DavidDesu]

Besides MGS and PES games I have no idea what else Konami does. Whatever it is isn't very good.. so this all sounds very odd. Surely Kojima has some control over the MGS franchise, names and characters, or will that be owned by Konami. Can't imagine them making a MGS without his involvement.

 

[MindGamingMantis]

Konami will certainly feel the phantom pain after this...

What the fuck ks gonna happen to Silent Hills?

:,(

 

[Majine]

The thing I'm dreading is Konami trying to maintain Metal Gear themselves. I don't think it's going to be pretty.

 

[Yoshi]

Kojima and his good buddy Sakurai can mope around talking about how they're miserable making the same games from their most famous series. It's the perfect match!

So two semi-depressive people not-quite working for Nintendo debating how bad this world is? Intelligent Systems by the way definitely is quite wordy, but they are not trying to make movies, they are still mainly gameplay oriented. I still think, if Kojima was going to work at one of the console vendors, Sony would be the most natural choice and Nintendo would probably be the least fitting of all big publishers. Of course, Nintendo would probably gladly take him and give him a team.

 

[Poetic.Injustice]

I hope Kojima doesn't go exclusive with one of the three platform publishers after he leaves Konami

 

[N30RYU]

Where will Kojima go... Ubi? Sony?

Will make Kojima Productions a standalone studio?

 

[Vik]

So, Kojima = Big Boss, Konami = Zero


got it!

 

[papercan55]

2019:
Keita Takahashi records album with Jim O’Rourke on which he makes barnyard animal noises while playing the spoons. Album is WIRE Magazine’s record of the year.

came into the thread purely because of silent hills and find this, one the greatest posts i've ever read on gaf.

 

[neojubei]

What does konami have left when Kojima leaves?

 

[Sparkedglory]

Oh shit
RIP Konami

 

[Rastafarian42]

Komani flopped big time he's the reason there still a float as a company.

 

[Rflagg]

for god's sake sell Silent Hills to someone who can carry it through if you don't want to do it yourself, Konami. They'd be idiots to burn all the buzz it created

Yes please, I was really looking forward to this game. Hopefully, either Kojima buys it himself or whoever does hires on Kojipro.

 

[PSOreo]

I honestly can't get my head around this, glad we got some more information at least. That 'making of' documentary will be really interesting now..are they gunna speak their minds or will it be censored? I'm scared for the condition of the game now, obviously it's "done" but as Kojima himself said, this is the most important part; testing, editing and fixing.

 

[Zee-Row]

This is a sad day because I like konami and kojima, they both have brought me the best games growing up.

 

[Isaccard]

Guess it really is his last Metal Gear.

 

[Kaako]

Just woke up and read this. What in the shit...Konami you bunch of incompetent suits.

 

[Purple Mug]

Could you pick a worse studio than Nintendo? The least story driven studio with the Kojima. Fucking lol. Can't wait to see what he does next.

You seem upset

lol

 

[mil6es]

No more ZOE then, bloody he'll that hurts my heart

 

[Betty]

I want to know this myself ...

Does it even matter? Kojima won't be working on it, Del Toro is friends with Kojima and will most likely not want to have any involvement without the former and all the original Team SIlent members are scattered.

I'd suspect it's dead.

 

[Cameron122]

Take zone of the enders before you go