>Hideo kojima gets fired
>In less than 24 hours Hideo Kojima makes his own studio
>In that same time he gets offered a position at Sony to make a brand new game
>mfw konami fucked up
At this point, I'm certain that Konami's departure from vidya business to slot machines, is just an elaborate suicide ritual.
>>320915375
What will Kojima do next?
Konami should just sell their popular franchises for a tidy profit and move on.
I'm sure Silent Hills and all of the drama behind it is enough to speak volumes about them on video games.
maybe, just maybe, kojima acted more like a superstar than a game developer and ran konami out of money
i mean, you don't run out a guy like kojima unless he did some really egregious shit
>>320915757
I hope they sell their franchises.
The slim chance of a Catlevania HD 2 is 20% of why I get out of bed in the morning.
Konami didn't fuck up. They've realigned their business to be more focused on profitable products such as mobile games, downloadable content, pachinko, and other ventures. MGS5 didn't do very well financially.
If other companies like Sony still want to live in the past and try to make risky, expensive AAA titles then they're welcome to.
>>320916194
>MGS5 didn't do very well financially.
Nonsense. It's already sold about as well as MGS4 did after over a year.
>>320915375
I doubt he made his studio overnight anon. It'd have been something that had been in the works for a while now.
>own the rights to Gradius, Castlevania, Silent Hill, Metal Gear, Suikoden, Bomberman, Beatmania and Yugi Oh
>somehow manage to self destruct, outsource your games to shitty Western devs with 0 experience, and shit everywhere
Seriously, almost impossible to fuck up that many franchises simultaneously.
Konami went from my favorite to my most hated.
Fuck you,Konami. You had like a billion dollars from YGO alone.
How did you fuck up
How
>>320916194
>Pachinko.
>Profitable.
Only momentarily.
He is a faggot ego maniac with a fetish for plastering his name EVERYWHERE. Fucking naming his studio "Kojima productions" fucking TWICE now and making it so every level in MGS5 shows his name at least 3 times.
I hope his new studio bombs and he ends up on the street
>>320916194
>risky, expensive AAA titles
They're only risky and expensive because literally 70% of the budget goes into advertising.
>>320916339
Dude, this is gambling. It can't not be profitable, always has been always will be.
They're making money on sick people's addiction. It's like selling drugs legally.
>>320916194
>implying mobile games will be anywhere near as good as other games
>>320916194
Do people not understand how volatile the mobile market is?
You can make dozens of mobile games and none of them could be a hit because of it.
>>320915987
Didn't he waste god knows how much hiring Sutherland to do voice work, then threw out over 90% of it because he saw Mad Max Fury Road and wanted Snake to be like him?
>>320916194
>PT demo downloaded over a million times in only months
>risky
>fucking Walking Dead actor, Del Toro, Kojimbles, Junji Ito and Akira Yamaoka
Konami literally killed a fucking unicorn made out of money
>>320916339
How do you think that will change?
Even if it does, businesses look for what is profitable right now instead of what is profitable tomorrow
>>320916565
Look at their 2014 earnings report. Pachinko is shit.
>>320916452
>good
You'd be surprised, my naive friend, but in reality there's little correlation between games being good and being profitable.
>Konami fucked up
>Because all they want to do is make pachinko and phone games
Why did they need Kojima on staff to do that?
>>320916565
That's alright because making a shitty mobile game that could be a hit is ridiculously cheap and fast. Companies churn that shit out knowing that only 1/20 will do well, which will still be a tidy profit.
>>320915718
He is working with Sony to make a PS exclusive, not details revealed besides that
>>320916707
There's a reason why Square makes mobile shit but still makes full console and handheld games.
Mobile isn't sustainableor maybe they just like making vidya?
>>320916575
Honestly, it probably would have sold less than MGS V.
>>320916772
>a PS exclusive
>>320916827
That's what Sony CEO and Hideo Kojima said
>>320916565
That's why they've got their hands still firmly in the pachinko honey pot. They won't waste much money making mobile games, and if they fail, who cares? Fall back on gambling.
>>320916963
They also said it's going to be on PC, so yes. They did say this >>320916827
>>320916575
>we'll never get that perfect silent hills game
Why did you remind me..
>>320916982
Kojima himself has already said it'll be coming to PC
I get what they tried to do, but they did it in the worst possible way. A PR nightmare.
Kojima wasted 5 years for a game which was supposed to be released between April 2013-March 2014 and yet it still was unfinished and bought song licences all over again and paid multiple times to write a song until it feels right.
They could peacefully let it go, instead there are hashtages like fuckkonami or now it'll be impossible to make Metal Gear without Kojima whiners.
>>320915375
This is going to be just like with Tim Schaefer.
>>320915375
>Kojima was Vice President of all of Konami
>funneled to his own project 80 million USD without anything making that reasonable
>WHY WAS HE FIRED?!?!?!?!?
Because he was doing something that's very nearly illegal, arguably it is; misappropriation of funds, aka "embezzlement". Sure it was going into the game legitimately, but it was only such a high amount because he was just going to himself to okay the funding of his own project.
Remember, even if Konami is in the shitter it is in right now, it still has countless people hired including those with degrees for business management and consultancy, industry trends, etc. that has been in that line of business for years, and yet, somehow, they still chose this decision. With pachinkos, I don't know what to say. It's either they don't have the balls to develop new AAAs or work on their past successful projects. Or they have the balls to shit on their fans' faces to assume a more "stable" long-term situation for their company. Either way, they didn't pick us.
>>320916194
>MGSV didn't do wel financially
Konami racked up 3 times their budget in sales in just a day
>>320916441
Japan may be easing up on its gambling laws
if they'd only ease up on censoring...
>>320915375
Sony is the retarded one hiring a faggot who ruined a "you literally can't fuck up" series by fucking up.
>>320917273
>embezzlement
did I miss something? Or are you really just throwing shit
>>320915375
kojimbo better get junji ito back on this shit i want to be spooked
>>320918290
You mean Masahiro Ito.
>>320918431
no he had junji ito on silent hills with del taco
>>320916339
Konami isn't making money from what a pachinko game pulls in. Konami makes money from simply selling the machine.
>>320918431
http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/27/9406669/junji-ito-silent-hills-kojima-del-toro
>>320916803
>implying the spooky genre is a niche with all the FN@F bullshit, and even REmake coming back and selling a lot
Everyone wanted PT, even normalfags if they would've see their PewDiePie play it.
>>320918431
Maybe they just tossed Kojima because he literally seems like a huge egomaniac who thinks he's some sort of god.
>>320916575
PT was fucking free, wasn't it? That isn't a good metric.
>>320915375
he didnt make the studio in 24 hours, he had the deals and studio going for a while, but we havent heard about it till now because of the non disclosure, he still did shit for ages and wasnt part of konami for a couple of months aswell
>>320919246
The point OP was making is that after he was cut loose, Kojima landed on his feet.
Now we see if he hits the ground running or his shins snap and he lands flat on his face.
>>320919591
yeah im just a stickler for semantics is all
im hoping for the former
>>320918874
>Undisputed master of horror
>(Along with these two that are the undisputed master)
>Spend millions on a new engine
>Trash the MGS series and all non-PES games in general as soon as it's out
>>320915375
people keep saying he was fired. he made consistently massively profitable games and you think they fired him?
>>320915375
>being a namefag
Fuck off.
>>320919783
>tfw no del Toro bff to argue about animu and mango
>>320916194
>They've realigned their business to be more focused on profitable products such as mobile games, downloadable content, pachinko, and other ventures.
Don't kid yourself. If both pachinko and vidya is profitable, there's no reason to not do both.
There's only so many packinko machines you can make before gambling places tell you they got enough and don't want to buy more. You can't just force places to keep buying when market is over-saturated with them.
The current Konami CEO is a retard who can't take far ahead. He only sees the numbers in front of him and decide to cut off vidya to focus solely on pachinko. Only fools would cut off one source of profit over another instead of having both sources.
Konami probably wanted safer investments, investing 50-100m into a game is a huge risk if it doesn't turn out well, a $10m game that's guaranteed to sell >$10m (they do some football game still don't they?) would probably be better in their eyes.
>>320922015
>there's no reason to not do both
Making a pachinko machine is much cheaper than making a big-budget video game.
>>320917787
He's just an idiot.
>>320915375
>konami fucked up
Like they give a shit.
I love Kojambles, but the whole development of MGS5 was becoming a money pit and Konami just wanted to him to fucking finish it. Both parties were at fault for the development and the game suffered for it.
Hopefully he doesn't get stuck making movie games or some shit a la most first-party Sony gamesincluding MGS4.
>>320922950
>Castlevania Pachinko
>FOX engine will never be used for another game
>Getting into the mobile game this late
>>320923236
>get stuck
As if he needed coercion. Movie games are his calling.
>MGSV still hasn't broken even
>fucked up
>>320922015
Its because from day one Konami always made video games for the cheap. They have always done small teams and tried to make at least 4x what initial cost were. What happened in 2014 is that Puzzle and Dragons was making 100 Million dollars a day. Really think about that, 500k dollar mobile game is making 100 Million a day. And you don't need a giant staff to support. Its on 2 platforms. I don't think the staff for Puzzle and Dragons is over 50. Hell I don't think it is 25. Compared to the monster that was Kojipro which was like 3 offices and 300 plus full time workers.
>>320920691
with razor thin margins
>>320917273
Do you think MGSV won't make a profit? GTAV sold 54million copies. Metal Gear Solid 1 sold 7million.
>>320923337
yeah that's true nigga
Konami was getting rid of dead weight
>>320915375
>Kojima gets fired
>Kojima makes a new Kojima productions studio
Hideo still works for Konami
>>320923685
Not dead weight. They aren't interested in being the patron of someone that thinks he is an auteur of video games. Sony fits him well because sony doesn't mind giving someone money to make something they want to make.
>>320923475
>100 Million dollars a day
Nah that's BS
The sad thing is, the development process of MGS V and Kojimas fallout with Konami is, in all likelihood, way more interesting than the game itself... and we are probably never gonna hear it.
>>320924191
sorry it was 3.75 million dollars a day.
>>320917431
>if they'd only ease up on censoring...
?
>>320924420
Konami didn't want to foot the bill anymore. Gave him a hard final day and took the game away from him and finished it.
>>320923804
Not anymore.
He didn't get fired, his contract simply expired and he did not renew for obvious reasons.
>>320922015
>pachinko division barely broke even in FY2015 and actually lost money in 2014
>literally Konami's smallest division
>Konami rarely ever announces anything about it
>release like one machine per year
>mobile games and Yugioh keep the entire company alive
>they announce that mobile will be their main thing and they have a bunch of crap in the works
>start hiring for new MGS game
>"Konami's new CEO only sees the numbers in front of him! He's sacrificing everything for pachinko!"
It's like no matter how clear Konami makes it, no one here actually pays attention to anything they do.
Wait, didn't Kojima say that MGSV would be highly controversial and would likely get him fired if he didn't succeed, before the game even came out?
>>320917431
>if they'd only ease up on censoring...
The fuck are you even on about
>>320924572
Porn obviously.
Not gonna happen without civilians begging for it though, no politician wants to be known as the porn guy.
>>320924823
didn't say he would get fired, only that he would never do video games ever again if he didn't get it right.
so vely... solly fo... make bad gaemu /v/.... prease forgib me... so solly so solly fo bad gaemu
>>320924840
CERO
Nudity is 100% banned on rated games and violence can only go to certain levels.
Look at any western game that has gone to japan or you can even compare jap games like No More Heroes with how it was changed for regions.
>>320924961
>solly
There's practically no "L" in the japanese language. You fucked up whatever joke you concocted in your peanut brain because of this detail.
Go to the shame corner, mister.
>>320917039
No they didn't.
>>320924961
>>320925113
Seems like his shitbrain decided to confuse him. And caused him to think that its R that turns to L, not the other way around.
>>320917174
Why would you even want the game if Kojima didn't make it?
The Fox team also made the engine that made Metal Gear V, and now it will probably do nothing but sit. They won't lease out the Metal Gear property solely because they want Kojima to suffer. The CEO has hated him for years. 80 million dollars is nothing compared to most western AAA games. Plus the game made it's money back, and then some.
Should have let him make Snatcher 2
They must have feared a lawsuit from Ridley Scott
>>320917368
>countless people hired including those with degrees for business management and consultancy, industry trends, etc. that has been in that line of business for years, and yet, somehow, they still chose this decision.
Confirmed for having never worked in a corporate environment before, the "opinions" of your SME's and consultants don't mean dick to the big wigs because they constantly let their egos get in the way of good advice/judgement. I can only imagine it's even worse in a Japanese work environment.
>>320919103
He isn't like that at all. I've been watching him in interviews for nearly two decades and the guy always comes off as super humble. People around him love him. Except for the CEO of Konami. Kojima's fans are certainly like that.
Konami needed a game studio director not a movie director that wanted to be the next lucas
>>320915375
Since it still wont be ZoE 3 i dont give a fuck
>>320925996
>game director
>for a pachinko machine
>>320924904
So, why is he making a game for/with Sony then :^)?
>>320916568
where did you guys get all this shit?
>>320916194
Nigga, MGSV made more than twice it's budget in less than 24 hours.
Also, reminder that the Pachinko market is about to get fucked by the law revision that covers the legal hole that allows these machines, and that Pachinko only gave Konami less than a third of the revenue they got from videogames.
>>320924706
They are on the cusp of an 80 Billion dollar deal with Vegas. They have been waiting for the gambling legislation to pass, and once it does, Japan will become the second largest gambling spot on the planet.
>>320922950
Pachinko also gives you much less money than videogames.
>>320917273
Dude, MGSV cashed in 170 million in 24 hours.
I think that's a good reason.
It's not that high considering during the development of MGSV they made an open world game AND a new engine from scratch with only 10 million more than during MGS4's development.
>>320925771
Hell on earth.
Just look at the Xbox360 hundreds of engineers worked on that thing and almost all of them tried to warn the powers that be that the systems would burn out if they kept things the way they were. The brass didn't listen and now look at them. This shit happens constantly.
So is the guy that made the fox engine working for kojimbo? he quit konami like 2 months before kojima got terminated.
>>320924961
I thought you were swaping chinese accent and japanese accent on purpose but you did use gaemu, which means you are a fucking idiot.
>>320924420
>Konami wanted to focus on making money
>Kojima didn't agree with it
>they fire him
>Kojima leaves peacefully because he's been tired for almost 10 years of making MGS
Yeah, quite interesting.
If Konami were to sell off the rights for their IPs, which company/companies would be best?
>>320926471
Most of his team got back together for the new studio, so i would think so, the fox engine is too good to let it die.
>>320926489
Apparently the President of Konami wanted to make pt a mobile game because he thought that mobile gaming was where the market was at kojima did not agree with that and was fired pretty much
>>320924823
You do know that there's a mod that makes the game not fail the mission if you kill a child soldier right?
In fact, you lose 500 heroism points if you kill one, and that's coded into the game, it's not part of the mod, in fact, there's some remnant files of how you could actually analyze child soldiers and get their stats.
You would probably find child soldiers around Africa and you would use them as normal soldiers.
You can see there's a lot of fucked up shit that didn't make it into the game because either they had no time or Konami forced them to censor it.
>>320926407
Yep, I see shit like this on a smaller scale almost daily, it's only because of bureaucratic red tape and corporate inefficiency that most corporations (and governments now that I think about it) haven't imploded in on themselves.
>>320915375
>capcom is shit now
>namco is shit now
>konami is shit now
Where did it all go so wrong?
>>320926760
Vidya industry became too profitable for it's own good.
Plus, smartphones.
>>320926760
>Nintendo is slightly less but still pretty shit now
“I was chosen to become president after the board thought my plans to solely pursue mobile games was a strong business model,” states Hayakawa, “I never really understood video games since my life has been dictated by the rules of business and profit. I simply looked at the numbers and realized that mobile games were the only real way to make money in this market. I did not realize that there were so many dedicated fans of the products that Konami made in the past.”
>>320926832
You're fucking delusional if you think Nintendo is anywhere near them. Maybe you don't like them, but all capcom, namco and konami do anymore is piss of their "fans." Nintendo fans still buy everything they put out, fags whining about censorship are just false flagging retards acting like toning down sexual tones in games is /actually/ fucking new.
>>320927106
Calm your tits sjw.
![1436066576308063408[2].png](https://i.imgur.com/S5CI8sj.png "1436066576308063408[2].png")
Why are people defending Konami here?
The Company that went out of their way to include Microtransactions in MGSV?
the company that killed all their good IP's once the original team left
is this some new bait?
>>320926924
How long until he kills himself?
>>320926225
They're not on the cusp of anything, it's not fucking happening and they know it. They've been trying to push this bill for years and they're no closer now than they were at the start. Two different bills have to be passed, but they still haven't managed to officially present the first one to the diet, let alone vote on it. Resort companies needed this in time for the 2020 Olympics, now they can't get the casino infrastructure set up in time. Anti-gambling lobbyists stalled em out.
>>320925767
Well they didnt get sued over MGS3 and james bond, or Lords of shadow and literally any other game
>>320926924
This is why Kojima's relationship with Konami went sour, he is a man that loves making actual vidya and cares more about the passion of gamers than the money in their wallets. The new KojiPro site basically spells this out.
>>320927169
Fuck off dobson
>>320915375
>thinking all that happened in a day
There would have been negotiations going back and forth for months, you goddamn retard.
>>320927343
“When I looked over the Silent Hills game, it looked like an unprofitable venture,” wrote Hayakawa, “I knew that if we simply applied the free-to-play model to the game, it would become a very lucrative project. So when I was talking to Kojima-san about it, he seemed very angry that I would even propose such a thing. I told him that even if he says no, Konami will eventually evolve to adapt this model to everything including the Solid games.”
>>320927106
Still, if you look at their output now and look at their output on, say, the GameCube you can't help but wonder just what the hell happened.
Back then something like a legitimately bad Metroid, a bad Zelda or a bad Paper Mario was almost unthinkable and now we have Other M, Skyward Sword and Sticker Star.
Censorship is a legit complaint but... well, they always made changes to some of their games for their western release.
I don't know why you faggots haven't considered the fact he might have wanted to leave konami himself to start his own projects, instead of being a metal gear/pachinko bitch slave. The guy is in the industry for pure passion, not for money, and when he saw how Konami was transforming, he just jumped ships. Same reason a lot of other devs did with Square enix and Capcom.
>>320927416
>dobson
the fuck is that some chinese food?
>>320915718
Exceed Sony's budget and get fired again.
>>320916181
same here for suikoden
>>320915375
Why couldn't he get hired by valve, I hope he's only contracted to make one game for sony as a timed exclusive
DUDE LET'S START OUR OWN COMPANIES LMAO
>>320927581
Those games are less than what most expected, but I give them credit for breaking from the "rehash" cycle everyone was being a shithead about ~5 years ago. They tried something different and failed, but there's still some good things in those games. I feel like you're kinda cherrypicking the worst of the worst. It's not like they haven't made anything great since.
>>320918431
Masahiro Ito was a character in Underhell you dofus
Maybe, just maybe, Kojima walked out the door himself so he could make his video games completely unrestrained.
>>320915375
You do realize they make 10 times as much money from pachinko without relying on a an otaku manchild as a project lead?
>>320928017
Do you think Kojima made a new studio just so he could be his own boss and wear a beard at work?
>>320928131
Doesn't really excuse Konami for making all the stupid decisions they've made since.
kojima is nothing more than a poster boy
>>320928017
xbots btfo
>>320916803
The hype for PT as the saviour of horror was great back then and i think this could've easily build up reputation like DeS did, due to it's difficulty? Thats what i hoped for.
>>320927106
>fags whining about censorship are just false flagging retards acting like toning down sexual tones in games is /actually/ fucking new.
>>320928103
But you can't deny that there has been an obvious decline. Sure, they made some good games. Galaxy was great, though, in my opinion that great enough that they had to make it twice. It was awfully nice of them to publish Bayonetta 2 and I've heard great things about Xenoblade but I still miss the times when their name stood for quality.
I never had a problem with them "rehashing" some of their games, stuff like Metroid Prime or Paper Mario was, at its core, good enough to support multiple games.
>>320927343
>This is why Kojima's relationship with Konami went sour, he is a man that loves making actual vidya and cares more about the passion of gamers than the money in their wallets.
The relationship went sour because Konami gave him money and he exceeded the budget and deadline.
Instead of thinking about how to make the best game he could with the budget he had, he decided to do whatever he wanted and then asked for more.
>>320927432
>market says freemium = money so lets strap it on everything
It reminds me of a Dilbert comic. Its like going "well, considering everyone is jumping off bridges, we should probly jump as well"
Also how do you become the president of something like this with no background knowledge on your product? The fuck?
>>320927236
All the news on 2chan was making it sound like the shit passed already. This time feels different. Time will tell. I hope it bites them on the ass, HARD.
>>320926656
That sounds like a bad decision, honestly. As if the CEO doesnt know Kojimbles wants to be reberrius taipu offu man
>>320916194
>pachinko is more profitable meme
stop
>inb4 Kojima makes a MGS clone, costing Sony millions in lawsuits, gets fired and ends up on Kickstarter begging for money in broken english, takes millions from fans and spends it all on a new engine, and then begs for even more money
>>320928237
video games was actually their most profitable department, pretty much every year. Hence why none of this makes any sense.
>>320927649
Lmao no one ever wants to bring up the very legit reason why he was laid off
>>320929216
>video games is their most profitable department pretty much every year
>Kojima devours money and only puts out a game every 5 years or so
>Konami drops Kojima
why is this so hard to understand
>>320915375
>>In less than 24 hours Hideo Kojima makes his own studio
ya blew it retard.
>>320916575
>Junji Ito
This wasn't confirmed, wasn't it? I know Kojimmy tweeted a picture of him and Junji Ito but that doesn't confirm anything. Maybe they're just friends?
How the fuck do people still not know why he was fired?
Do people really not notice that one of the biggest publishers in the world just few years age put out only 2 games this year?
Do people really not hear about Konami departure from video games to focus on gambling, mostly pachinco machines?
So hers last time, he didnt get fired since he spend to much money, he didnt get fired since he fucked someones wife, he got fired since ... he was a video game developer in company who dosnt want to make games.
In japan there is almost no control over gambling and while the government wants to pass new laws it has problems with it due to corruption and lobbying.
Thats it. Its about .. money, its always about money.
Also Konami's profits were down 50% from gambling this year, and japan is planning to strike down on gambling hard, this is why Konami suddenly started backpedaling as fuck realizing their golden goose might not be so golden or not live so much longer. This is why they suddenly plan another mgs game while firing the team making it just months ago.
Its incompetence at the same scale that before killed atari sega and thq, i doubt konami will recover from this.
>>320915375
>Fukushima is at Sony too
>tfw he and Kojima wont get back together because of Kojimas ego
>>320916265
Well its on 5 platforms itd be embarrassing if it didn't outsell the single platform game
>>320929941
>he was a video game developer in company who dosnt want to make games
Except they still wanted to make MGS, they just didn't want to make other games for other IPs.
>>320916568
iirc sutherland cost less than re-hiring hayter
>>320925403
Why do you immediately make statements before you even look up how wrong you are?
>>320915375
>In less than 24 hours Hideo Kojima makes his own studio
Yes, I'm sure he only started arranging everything to make a studio right up next being out of Konami and not during all these months were he was just being held hostage by a contract....fucking idiots these Kojimadrones.
>>320929941
They didn't backpedal at all, you just had no idea what was happening. They started hiring new people for MGS development at the same time we found out Kojima was leaving. Literally no one was even fired but Kojima and Kojipro LA. They always intended to make more MGS games without Kojima.
>>320915375
Such an overrated fuck.
>>320930346
yeah, mobile games and pachinko games
seen the new silent hill game ?
HIT THE LEVER
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ht4dbyPIcM
Now imagine what was Kojimas response to producing 5 of those every year, and you can imagine how he was thrown out the window
>>320915375
>In less than 24 hours Hideo Kojima makes his own studio
Neo Kojipro has been up and running since before the whole debacle, Kojima announced his departure and future plans to Konami many months ago and they retired his brand in an effort to distance themselves from the new studio which he told them would be operating under the same name.
>>320916194
except they are hiring new people again for next AAA project
>>320930471
Maybe milking mgs games outsourced and made in cheap slav countries, but there is absolutely no doubt they arent publishing games anymore.
They used to release multiple games a year for ds, mobile, ios, wii, other consoles and pc, basically every platform just 5 years ago.
They are now gone form all those markets, with only 2 multiplatform releases this year, pes and mgs.
Planning to keep a Konami sized company with 5000 employees afloat from one game a year is rather insane dont you think ?
>>320931183
That is why you downsize, as was seen with the disbanding of KojiPro and DDR sound lab for example
AAA single player games are on their way out. They've become increasingly more expensive to develop as time and technology advance. Micro-transaction riddled mobile and multiplayer games are the present and future of the game industry.
>>320931249
And you dont think this is why Kojima got the axe?
An aaa studio in company clearly not plannig on making aaa games ?
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>>320916568
It's true, voice actor union requires a certain % increase in pay whenever an actor reprises a role for the same character, and I don't think BB and SS counted as different characters according to the union.
>>320931397
Don't know the details about it but they're now hiring new people.
>>320931519
Not him but the issue Konami had with Kojima was that he releases a game every 5 years. My guess is that they want something like CoD or Assassin's Creed and make Metal Gear a yearly release thing.
>>320929817
it is
https://twitter.com/realgdt/status/648117433593655296
Konami is burning all its bridges because Konami basically don't want to make video games anymore, how hard is this to get people?
They'll keep making Metal Gear and PES because it makes a pretty penny for them. But their business lies in pachinko and fucking fitness gyms and whatnot.
People who say HURR KONAMI DEAD BY 2020 CALLING IT are retards, they aren't doing all this because they want to make solely mobile games, they are doing this because they don't really want to be making games at all, they have found better profits in other places.
>>320931183
>but there is absolutely no doubt they arent publishing games anymore.
See this is what I'm talking about, you think you know all about their plans but from the start you never knew shit, you thought Konami was doubling down on pachinko because you read some random shitposts about it on /v/. They're going to publish a console game at some point in the future and you'll just act like Konami changed their minds, and not that you were just wrong all along.
>>320931418
>voice actor union
>when hiring janitors, as evidenced by Xenoblade's cast of unknowns as well as the disastrous Silent Hill 2/3 HD, is better than hiring Yuri fucking Lowenthal for the billionth time, and they'd save money too which would allow them to make better games
I hope these "voice actor" faggots realize how replaceable they are because when their strike fails they will have nothing left but anime
>>320931617
Wasn't most of the time go for the developing an in-house engine?
>>320915375
They fired him for a reason you dipshit. No one gets fired for fun.
He must have made konami bleed in terms of money thats why they got rid of him.
>>320931915
Pachinkos are going to be illegal in Japan soon
And now the crazy bastereds what to make a new metal gear game
>>320928106
You what mate?
Masahiro Ito was the monster designer in the original Silent Hill games.
Didnt Pachislot profits basically bomb recently? Or was that only for one other company?
>>320928497
Silent Hill wasn't about difficulty you retard
>>320916335
Japs mang. Them pachinko machines must be rolling in mad dosh for Konami to go full retard for them.
Now they just need to remake MG1 & 2 with Fox Engine for easy money.
Another 2-3 years of smooth sailing, while new rookie team works on MGS 6
>>320932332
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/capcoms-profits-drop-despite-firm-sales-of-digital/1100-6431813/
http://www.tssznews.com/2015/11/02/sega-sammy-confirms-another-profit-gain-despite-small-sales-drop/
2 different companies reporting pachinko/pachislots aren't delivering, though Konami might have a different story.
>people still think this guy is good at what he does
They are changing their business strategy, anyone who thinks they are committing suicide or shooting themselves in the foot is sadly mistaken. AAA games are high risk, gambling dosh is a more stable cash flow.
Kojima's games are amazing but the evidence is there that he's irresponsible with budget. For a company that's restructuring of course he'd be one of the first to go.
Also, they aren't going to give up their flagship franchises because they will want to exploit them for pachinko and mobile games, and may want to return to them later on consoles with cheaper devs.
>>320916265
Actually it's just selling like 4 sold, it did not outsold it, which is kinda sad considering 4 was in only One console while V is in 5 :/
>>320916772
It's gonna be Not-Zone of the Enders
>>320916265
did it break even though?
>>320928017
Fuck Sakurai.
Fuck Nintendo.
>>320916368
This.
>>320932537
>They are changing their business strategy, anyone who thinks they are committing suicide or shooting themselves in the foot is sadly mistaken. AAA games are high risk, gambling dosh is a more stable cash flow.
>I don't know jack shit about a subject but I must post my opinion about it The Post
Gambling is illegal in Japan, Pachinko being a retarded loophole that the government is patching up as we speak
>>320916803
Yes I agree. People like to say they ll buy and support something yet they go and buy their annual cod, asscreed.
Example; all those faggots crying how much they wanted a new zone of Enders yet no one bought the hd re masters and hideo had to cancel the new game for "lack of interest".
>>320927778
As bad the current treatment Castlevania and Silent Hill made me feel I'm kinda glad Suikoden is presently buried.
I don't think I could take it.
>>320932703
if by "patching up" you mean taking a nice fat cut and then turning the other way sure dude
>>320932628
I heard that it easily profited, but iuno if that is true.
>>320932710
Are you forgetting the part where Konami ensured nobody would buy them by fucking them up incredibly hard, so hard that ZOE2 had enough slowdown it was unplayable, so hard Kojima felt the need to pay out of pocket to have ZOE2 reported by competent people in an attempt to correct the shamefur dispray?
I bought it at launch and I was punished by having to wait over a year until it was playable
>>320925894
Yeah he writing his name all over every single mission isn't egocentric at all
>>320932909
At least you are not european. The euro version was never patched and is still unplayable to this day.
Thankfully I imported the american version
>>320932921
This. Kojima’s name appears more than 100 times during a single playthrough of the singleplayer campaign. What other director does this?
>>320915375
Still can't help but think i'm on a major ruse cruise.
>>320917374
Yeah they could keep doing that like a bunch of retards or invest the same money into pachinko and make back their investment tenfold
>>320925894
>the guy always comes off as super humble
Same guy that puts his name of the cover of the box, yeah?
>A Hideo Kojima game
>+100 people who worked 9-5 on it...
>>320915375
There is no guarantee he can make anything big without the MGS license and infinite money.
>>320916368
First, it nothing near that much went to advertising. Second: a good, expensive advertising helps much more than an actual good game. See Destiny.
>>320923603
Nowadays having a familiar name don't mean as much as back then. Any AAA title can fail.
>>320915375
>get rid of someone who was hurting their profits
> THEY'RE the ones who fucked up
Yeah I guess I can see where this might be true if you're a fucking fanboy.
>>320929058
>he actually believes Yakuza owned company Konami puts all their profit on the books
>>320931915
They're already dead to me.
>implying kojima will ever surpass metal gear
>>320915718
Another shit game.
>>320925113
to be fair, in Spanish, we exchange all R for L to mimic an asian person talking
still stupid because we are talking english but give him a break
>>320935014
ZoE 2
That was easy.
>>320933301
Because he's not just a director. Reason why his name always pops up is because he is literally involved in every face of his games, probably after some situations in earlier pre-MGS games resulted in him being dissatisfied over how others didn't really get what he was trying to do.
>>320934672
>gets disproved
>its under the table deals
>>320935530
Thats not a Kojima game
>>320935692
You can literally find games made by a single person with less name spamming.
>kojima is secretly the tim schaffer of japan
>/v/ doesn't know this because a japanese kotick doesn't exist
>>320915375
why would konami care?
gaming wasnt their main source of revenue and when gambling is legalized in japan theyll have more than enough money to buy sony and fire kojima all over again
Joosten will be in his next game?
>>320916793
>Mobile isn't sustainable
Neither is AAA development. Have you ever sat and watched the credits of a AAA game after finishing it? there's a RIDICULOUS amount of people involved in it and every single one of them has to get payed, even the Director of Secretary of Senior of Management of Toilet Paper.
If you didnt know better you'd probably think you're looking at the list of employees of some government agency, not a private production. They've become some bloated and they spend so much money on marketing that they have to sell millions just to break even.
>>320936239
woah, she's/fa/
>>320916772
>>320916963
>>320925403
http://www.videogamer.com/ps4/metal_gear_solid_5_the_phantom_pain/news/kojimas_new_game_will_be_published_by_sony_is_also_coming_to_pc_wont_be_silent_hills.html
Read the fucking Q&A, champ. It's PS4 + PC later, so at best it's a temporary exclusive, and it doesn't bear the "Silent Hill"' name. However, it could be a spiritual offspring of Silent Hill with another name to avoid legal issue.
>>320936203
>implying only japanes companies will jump on the gambling bandwagon
