Rumors have recently been going around that Konami is moving away from hardcore game developement. I honestly don't really care if they don't make anything new, as I haven't cared about anything they've done for over a decade. I only have a little bit of nostalgia for their franchises, as I never grew up owning any of their games. I've just played a few here and there. I've played a lot of their more recent games, but I've honestly thought they were just not good, the prime example being Lords of Shadow.

That being said, I understand that they are a huge peice of gaming culture. Out of respect for that, I recently bought a few of their games off of the Virtual Console, and I get it. So far, I've been playing Contra III and Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow, and they are both seriously awesome. Aside from some crappy writing in the ladder, I can't really think of any big flaws in either. I get the touch, and once I beat these, I plan on buying Castlevania IV and Dracula X next. Maybe even Contra and Super C when I'm ready for another ass kicking. I'm definitely buying MGS: 3D, since I loved the demo.

But that brings me to my worry. While Konami has been pretty awesome about it's legacy support, will it all end now? Will I never get to continue exploring my new found love for the company by playing Dawn of Sorrow, Order of Ecclesia, and Contra 4? What about the N64 or the inevitable GCN virtual console. Is this the end? I really hope not, as retro Konami is getting up there with Capcom (though not quite that good) as becoming one of my favorite publishers. It would be a travesty to not be able to salvage some of their old games before they inevitably refocus to areas other than console/handheld gaming.

Porting an old game to the WiiU VC is not exactly rocket science. Its cheap and easy money.

That being said, third party developers do hate the WiiU, so maybe...

I think with a case like PT, we really see the issues of Digital Distribution. We also saw somewhat similar things happen with GTA San Andreas where the license for the music have ended (I believe) and an "update" patch came out removing quite a few of the licensed music.

So it is a shame but yea, what can ya do? I guess if those games do get removed, your only real way is piracy which is lame and I really hope Konami understands that because VC is easy money and if Konami takes it down, then they won't be getting the money but people will still be playing the games via emulators

First Sega move away from console development, then Capcom start focusing more on mobile now Konami want to exit gaming?

People really think the industry is in good shape?

Seeing how slow Ninten is with even updating their VC, it seems either way these games would never make it to VC, and that is sad... : ( The only way will probably be finding the games somewhere out there at a decent price...

It makes me wonder if Konami will pull even more of their games off VC later in the future...

Virtual Console updates seem pretty slow (especially on Wii U) and third parties are naturally slower, as the porting process takes time.

With that in mind, I wouldn't be surprised if Konami stopped supporting VC at this point.

i think they will try to put out more VC games. its easy money and it could be a good start to porting tose games to more than just the wiiu.

and i dont think they will make another P.T. move in the future, P.T will have a costly legal battle soon. and it hurted the konami name on consoles.

I mean, Konami has been notoriously good about supporting the VC well.

I'm not saying they'll remove anything, I'm saying they'll stop porting new VC games like ones for the DS, N64, Wii, and GCN eventually.

Seems like it's getting in some bad shape or at least some of it is, I don't think some japanese companies are happy that Western devs are slowly taking their ground with home consoles in their area not being as popular as they once were and PC gaming isn't exactly a big hit there either so I can see why they go with mobile gaming, to them it must look like some untapped market they could become relevant in and control, if you think a decade or two ago before Xbox joined the Japanese were at the complete center of attention and control when it came to gaming but now thw West took a good chunk from them.

I wish they'd put up more competition and effort but I honestly think at this point most of them have just given up and are now just resorting to mobile gaming to fall back on, I believe their biggest issue is them failing to adapt to the current trends gaming is presenting along with other platforms that were once small and have now grown to massive sizes and they can't seem to adjust to that.