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JGarret on 26 April 2015

After MGS5, I´m done with them and I think a lot of people are too.

They might as well be finished in the videogame business (or the closest to it they´ve ever been at least) and just keep their fitness centers.



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Ruler on 26 April 2015

They pretty much died when they closed down team silent. They still brought out an amazing yugioh card game for the ps3, milenium duels it was



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Darwinianevolution on 26 April 2015
Ka-pi96 said:
Well they do have PES, even though that is being absolutely demolished by FIFA in sales...

But yeah, if ever there were a video game company dependant on one man it was Konami with Kojima. Without him they may be in serious trouble.

Konami lost interest in PES sometime in the past. Usually FIFA and PES were very close on reputation, and even the sales gap with FIFA wasn't terrible .

Best selling FIFA on:

PS1 FIFA 2000 1998 Sports Electronic Arts 0.22 1.47 0.04 0.14 1.87
PS2 FIFA Soccer 06 2005 Sports Electronic Arts 0.78 2.55 0.04 0.84 4.21
Wii FIFA Soccer 11 2010 Sports Electronic Arts 0.26 0.69 0.00 0.12 1.07
PS3
 FIFA Soccer 13 2012 Action Electronic Arts 1.03 4.98 0.13 2.01 8.15
360 FIFA Soccer 13 2012 Action Electronic Arts 1.06 3.47 0.03 0.58 5.14
DS FIFA Soccer 08 2007 Sports Electronic Arts 0.10 0.65 0.00 0.11 0.85
PSP FIFA Soccer 08 2007 Sports Electronic Arts 0.20 0.76 0.00 0.39 1.35

Best selling PES on:

PS1 World Soccer Jikkyou Winning Eleven 3: World Cup France '98 1998 Sports Konami Digital Entertainment 0.00 0.00 0.75 0.05 0.81
PS2
 Winning Eleven: Pro Evolution Soccer 2007 2006 Sports Konami Digital Entertainment 0.10 2.39 1.05 0.86 4.39
Wii. Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 2008 Sports Konami Digital Entertainment 0.09 0.84 0.11 0.15 1.19
PS3 pro evolution soccer 2011 2010 Sports Konami Digital Entertainment 0.28 1.17 0.54 0.41 2.40
360 Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 2007 Sports Konami Digital Entertainment 0.08 0.90 0.04 0.05 1.07
DS Winning Eleven: Pro Evolution Soccer 2007 2006 Sports Konami Digital Entertainment 0.00 0.00 0.17
0.00 0.17
PSP World Soccer Winning Eleven 9 (JP & Others sales) 2005 Sports Konami Digital Entertainment 0.01 0.88 0.31 0.00 1.20

Sometime around 2010 Konami started selling way less than FIFA. And now that people complain about FIFA and EA Sports becoming complacent and just re-skinning  prior titles, PES could really make a comeback, Mortak Kombat 9 style.

Konami could have pushed PES on Nintendo consoles , pushed more its presence on handhelds, they could have pushed PES bundles with PlayStation (to contrast to the FIFA Xbox bundles), they could make a PES on the WiiU where there's no competition (PES sold well on Nintendo, why just ignore it?)... If PESdoesn't make a comeback this gen, it will be to late for the franchise.



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JGarret on 26 April 2015

^ Lol!!

Completely accurate



forest-spirit on 26 April 2015

Konami is pretty much irrelevant to me as far as their current work goes, but I still want them to get out of this mess and start doing well again. They're one of the classic video game companies and I'd hate to see them disappear.



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joesampson on 26 April 2015

Seriously fuck Konami. One of the last Japanese video companies I liked, mainly because of MGS and they ruined that by firing Kojima. Now they cancel silent hill. Idiots.



Turkish on 26 April 2015

Konami only has PES now which the latest iteration is the best football game.



Barozi on 26 April 2015

Konami suffered the same as many other Japanese publishers since the start of the 7th gen, but they managed to become completely irrelevant as of recently.



JGarret on 26 April 2015
Barozi said:
Konami suffered the same as many other Japanese publishers since the start of the 7th gen, but they managed to become completely irrelevant as of recently.





JGarret on 26 April 2015
Barozi said:
Konami suffered the same as many other Japanese publishers since the start of the 7th gen, but they managed to become completely irrelevant as of recently.


Konami and Capcom have a very valuable collection of IPs that just rot.

At least Square is making a comeback on consoles.