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

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MikeRox said:

WoodenPints said:
I mean I can understand the future of gaming in Japan going mobile, but on a western side of it I don't think it will ever happen, IMO there is no crossover of people who play proper games and mobile games, there 2 complete different markets.

I think Konami more so than a lot of other Japanese fallen giants really struggled to move on with HD gaming. I think as they struggle to make much that appeals to the western market now, they're probably not really left with much choice but to pander to Japan's mobile market.

7th gen was basically "become relevant in the West or get left behind" whereas the industry had always previously been cater for Japan, and the west will lap up the scraps.

Pretty much this, the last two decades if not longer had Japan at the center of attention in the video games market, they were the driving force behind most games and their consoles were in the spotlight a lot more, as years passed the Western games market grew and more devs cropped up with interesting concepts and technologies, simply put Japan was losing it;s grip and the attention and power slipped away and with that it's obvious they are finding it hard to keep all that power and attention that corps like Konami feel going mobile is the only way to have both and feel more relevant because at the end of the day that's pretty much what they've always had and wanted, they can't live without being on top and being in 3rd place or being less popular like Western devs/pubs go with.

Konami though are out of their minds, the past few weeks have shown that they are more than happy to get rid of one of their best creative minds that helped make a franchise super popular while making tonnes of cash along with deciding to exit the console/pc market and just going with mobiles.

In the end I can't say I cared because I practically only liked MGS and I know Kojima made the series what it was, without him the series is dead to me once I finish V and that's it for Konami in general, in time they'll slip away to being a nobody, a hasbin that was once thought to be relevant.