Konami, You Done Did It.

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Xxain said:
We acknowledge that KONAMI was best as an ARCADE developer, but we cant see their reason for moving to mobile where ARCADE GAMES flourish... hmmm. KONAMI, outside of MGS and PES, has never been a super successful consoole developer after PS1 days when arcade styled games lost popularity. KONAMI faild hard last gen to establish anything non MGS/PES related while theit bread and butter arcade games flourished in mobile.

Most gamers arnt KONAMI fans, but MGS. Most gamers could not name 10 KONAMI IP's from the NES/SNES days or even now. One could look at KONAMI removing Kojima off MGS as saying, " you work for us, we paid for this game, it ours" No other developer got the level of prestige Kojima got.

Have you ever seen this is a Sakaguchi game on FF box? How about this is a Miyamoto game? Naka game? No, because they're not Divas.

I just don't see a situation that can honestly justify how they acted. Kojima has been working for Konami for years, if he's a diva they must be used to it by now. I can understand that they felt their partnership with him no longer fit into the company's future but the logical thing to do would have been to let Metal Gear Solid V be released with Kojima's name on it and let him get up on stage to accept an award for his game. It would have prevented a lot of unnecessary drama and then they could have announced they are not renewing Kojima's contract because of change in direction from the company (or something to that effect).