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Forums - Gaming Discussion - Konami CEO Calls Mobile ‘the Future of Gaming’ as Company Officially Shifts Focus

QUAKECore89 on 14 May 2015
binary solo said:
Revenue-wise they are probably right, mobile gaming could become (if not already) the largest market segment by revenue. Tablets and even mobile phones will be powerful enough to run 8th gen quality games before long, and with HDMI ports and Bluetooth capability they can effectively become quasi consoles you can plug into your TV and play with a regular controller. In that way Mobile can become a threat to home consoles. 9th gen is going to be interesting.


With a lot of DRM games...



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soulfly666 on 14 May 2015

I'm sorry but I can't be the only one who prefers gaming on 70+inch screens.



Ultrashroomz on 14 May 2015

It's like Konami doesn't even care about anything anymore. :/



"Just for comparison Uncharted 4 was 20x bigger than Splatoon 2. This shows the huge difference between Sony's first-party games and Nintendo's first-party games."

docholliday on 14 May 2015

Now they will over saturate the mobile market. There were to many studios trying to make games for consoles, before long the same will be true for the mobile market and companies will start to cannibalize each other all over again.



PwerlvlAmy on 14 May 2015

stupid konami, u silly



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kinisking on 14 May 2015

*shifts focus away from Konami *



Ltd predictions by the time 9th Gen comes out

Ps4:110million

Xbox one :75 million( was 65) 

Wii u: 20 milliion

Nem on 14 May 2015

The easy money of F2P games scam is just too enciting for incompetent companies to resist. I await the day when the market is saturated and the cash cows run dry. Nothing will save them then.



GamechaserBE on 14 May 2015

Well makes sense, we can complain about mobile and the people who play ports of old games like Final fantasy/Chrono Trigger but at the same time people are playing remakes and ports like FF type-0 and FFX-X2 on their consoles.



hatmoza on 14 May 2015

with so many people spending money on tokens in free to download games on mobile devices, why not shift your focus on dimwits who pay those small fees for an extra life in candy crush or 1000 gems in (insert trap app game name)?

It's easy access to stupid people's money. And a lot more morons own phones than consoles. It's a sure shot for profit.

 

Edit:

I worked in cell phones sales for most of my university years... I've seen these people... I've seen how much money they are willing to throw away on shit ap purchases that I would never personally spend my hard earned cash on. It's disgusting.



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QUAKECore89 on 14 May 2015

I'm wondering, what happened to the other Japanese publishers.