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Has Konami redeemed themselves (like Capcom’s redemption arc)?

Yes, Konami is back 2 11.11%
 
No, but they’re making progress 11 61.11%
 
No, not even close 4 22.22%
 
No, I’ll never forgive ... 1 5.56%
 
Total:18

Not yet. Loving seeing them slowly but surely crawling their way back, but there haven’t been any games yet released that have had me go “Konami is so back!!!”

Enjoyable games, but they’ve been primarily focusing on collections and remakes/remasters with the occasional new release, which they are now starting to ramp up on as mentioned in the OP.

I am hoping they really floor me over the next few years to truly decide if they’ve redeemed themselves



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JackHandy said:

They killed MGS. Unless they hire Kojima back and let him do his thing, or give him his baby back for free (as they should), I'll always be anti-Konami.

Kojima wanted out of MGS as much as Konami wanted Kojima gone. He had wanted to work on other things for a while but Konami kept saying no. I think he's happier exploring new games than tied down to one series forever. 



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Kyuu said:

Prime Konami are my favorite "developers" of all time. I like current Konami but they're not even remotely comparable to what they used to be. They're approaching good/decent developers to make their games for them, which is better than letting all these awesome IP's rot, but it isn't the same as developing the games yourself.

They're taking steps in the right direction, but no I don't view that as redemption. I am however really surprised at how much eFootball (which is developed in-house) improved over the years and how big it is becoming!

At this point I'd like Konami to really push eFootball into partnership with major soccer clubs/leagues and hollow out EA Sports FC (formerly FIFA), especially now that EA is owned by Prince Bone Saw. 



They are showing promising signs, but are still not all the way back. MGS was actually the Konami property I cared the least about, and I have never thought that Kojima was entirely blameless in the drama of his breakup with Konami. Rather, I want to see 3D Castlevania make a comeback, and that could start with a Castlevania 3D collection (64, LoD, LoI, and CoD). I want to see Ganbare Goemon come back. I'd like to see Suikoden make a comeback, maybe under the development of Rabbit and Bear Studios. I'd like Konami to wrest control of video soccer away from the Saudi royal family, even though I don't really follow soccer much, and I'd also like to see Konami and 2K try to compete against Madden, which is also under the Saudi royal family. I'd like to see Bomberman become a major franchise once more.

And if we must have licensed games, Konami was actually the best at those, too, with the exception of Marvel vs. Capcom. The Simpsons were in better hands with Konami than they were with Acclaim, Activision, and EA. My favorite Marvel game is the X-Men arcade game. They even had a long-forgotten Aliens arcade game that was quite fun.

That said, Konami is a pretty large company in Japan. Video games are just the face of Konami we saw the most of outside of Japan. Kojima, to put it bluntly, was not as good a ROI as most of Konami's other product/business lines. Among the legacy video game companies in Japan, they are still the third largest in market cap behind Nintendo and Bandai Namco - and they're not far behind Bandai Namco. Unlike Capcom, which had to get good or die, Konami could afford to step away from the console industry.

My hope is that they'll follow in the footsteps of companies like Sega and SNK, companies which also stepped away from video games to varying degrees in the last decade, and see the value in video games again. Konami potentially has a lot to bring to the table in the gaming world - if that potential is used well.



Absolutely not. So far they've just been increasingly milking their best-known IPs. They've done it quite respectfully, but that's essentially what they've done. I guess with Silent Hill it looks like they'll be releasing new stuff rather than resorting to pure milking, but even that they want to be doing yearly, so that kind of goes into the milking category. It's all quite respectful for what it is, but it's still milking. Personally I wouldn't call that redemption.



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Never really felt like they needed redemption myself. It just sucked that they moved away from console games for a while, but I think they are doing pretty well these days.



Well they will give us Yu Gi Oh Tag Force 3 remake with newer GX cards so they are 50% there, now if they also give Tag Force 6 same treatment then when it comes to me they are redeemed.
They finally started to give people what they want instead of what suits want.
Now if they only can bring PES back.