Seconded.

And to think, Konami used to be my one of my favourite publishers around. Sad really.

I think there is money in mobile, but Konami is going to find that it's already very crowded.

Hopefully by then we'll also be strong enough not to forgive them when they try crawling back because imo they don't deserve a second chance if they completely leave the console/PC markets, they abandon both, they should expect to never return since they've made it clear they are making their own beds, now they will have to sleep in them too.

It just won't feel the same swiping up, up, down, down...

I'm headed towards quitting gaming anyway; if mobile is the future, I definitely will. That shit is cancer.

It's depressing to think that the same developers from Metal Gear Solid and Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater are pulling some shit like this. It's like they don't trust us hardcore gamers anymore. They prefer easy money.

I hope the mobile bubble bursts soon. Not because I hate Mobile Gaming but because it's seen as this fountain of money but in reality ~50% of mobile games make less than $100 a month and less than 3% make a million in revenue.

They probably knew when Kojima left. They had nothing else on their plate. So they said, F it. Just make mobile. Way to lie out of your teeth. Nice Work Failomi.

The mobile game scene is still relatively new in Japan, so I can't blame the man entirely for being entranced by the allure of mobile's high profit potential. One even argue that mobile is more viable in Japan than it has been in the West given how little free time the average Japanese person is and their exceptionally long commutes, which creates a large possible audience for bite-sized gaming experiences. But for the good of the industry as a whole I hope this tears konami in half.

Konami has what? Kojima left, MGS we won't know how would it feel like with Kojima's creative mind. Then they have PES franchise, which we all know how many football gamers bought it instead of EA's Fifa?

all their other IPs, how did it sell on the previous gen consoles? creativity as a whole they didn't have the same leap to the HD era, as someone already mentioned in the thread.

Problem is they really wanted to put 'all-in' in mobile which is a bit wrong but that would be their main direction. maybe there would be a few console games that they would develop for consoles but the development cost would really be big.

in hindsight, 9th gen gaming, and the tablet CPU/GPU processing power gap against console would be minimal? who knows? if so, it may really be a smartphone/tablet with similar console spec processing.

the games in the console industry seems to be most of the established AAA titles and new IPs got great sales. hence if they push for a mobile game for a new IP (regardless with paywall,etc..) they may have a better chance to sell it.