Well... whaddya think? If another company came in and bought all of Konami's gaming IPs, who would be the best fit and why?

Personally - my vote would be for Bandai Namco. They could give MGS and Silent Hill the AAA treatment needed while making sure smaller properties get the attention and love they deserve. Of all the leading japanese companies, I'd consider Namco-Bandai the most likely to do a DDR arcade/home console game if given the chance. Zone of the Enders would mesh really with Gundam. Bandai Namco's strength in anime franchises would be great for rebooting the Mystical Ninja IP. Suikoden and Castlevania could very easily find their way into capable hands with Namco-Bandai at the helm.

If ever Konami sell their big console IP`s ( first they`ll milk it to the very last drop with Free-To-Play for mobile, super generic shooters and Pachinko Machines) I think the best new home would be Sony. Many of their big franchises are already associated with the PS brand like MGS, PES and Silent Hill, and Sony proved it can do great first party. And, from a very delusional wish, would be the only change to Kojima to put his hands back in Metal Gear, since Sony could open a new studio for him to take care of some Konami franchises.

But Konami won`t sell them. What we can hope for is them hiring some great outsourced studio to take care of them.

Lol, Crapcom. Out of all these...probably Square Enix. But if we're talking western devs, which the Japanese won't do for a trillion dollars [i.e. selling a jap gaming company to U.S. or EU], I'd say Naughty Dog, even though they're Sony's.

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Probably SE or Namco, but I don't think all of their IPs should go to a single company. The Hudson IPs and Mystical Ninja should go to Nintendo, ZoE and Suidoken to Namco, Metal Gear and Silent Hill to Sony, Castlevania to Square Enix and Contra to SNK.

I don't believe SNK will even bother with Contra, based on latest release on that franchise, it is straight up worse Metal Slug, and I have doubt on how much brnad power Contra holds.

I think Castlevania to SNK and Suidoken and ZoE to Enix might do better.

That said, you left out Bemani and other minor franchises out. I'd like Nintendo to try perfecting Elebits.

Bandai Namco could do a decent MGS and Silent Hill, maybe also Castlevania, but I'd be very curious to play a Suikoden game made by Square Enix or Sony.

I definitely wouldn't mind seeing Eidos take a crack at a MGS game, so ya, Square would be alright

If ever Konami sell their big console IP`s ( first they`ll milk it to the very last drop with Free-To-Play for mobile, super generic shooters and Pachinko Machines) I think the best new home would be Sony. Many of their big franchises are already associated with the PS brand like MGS, PES and Silent Hill, and Sony proved it can do great first party. And, from a very delusional wish, would be the only change to Kojima to put his hands back in Metal Gear, since Sony could open a new studio for him to take care of some Konami franchises.

But Konami won`t sell them. What we can hope for is them hiring some great outsourced studio to take care of them.

Square Enix has already enough JRPG series that they need to work on ( Mana, Chrono, Valkryie Profile), so I don't think adding Suidoken would help much. I guess SNK would be good for a 2D Castlevania game, but I had 3D Castlevania in mind when I chose SE. We still haven't had a really great 3D Castlevania game! There are, of course, franchises like Rocket Knight and Gradius but I have no idea where they could go.