Metal Gear Publisher Konami: Mobile Is Now Our Main Platform

The future lies in a market of handheld devices, the power of which is laughable when compared to previous generation consoles (think about that for a moment). Devices designed for quick, short term communication between people and the sharing of digital information, not gaming.
Funny vision of the future Konami....

Wasn't going to buy anything from them beyond Phantom Pain anyway, so this works out quite well. Bye bye, Konami. You won't be missed.

This has gotta be a joke. It doesn't sound real, is this some sick joke?

I'm ready for a market crash now. I just hope mobile gaming will be first blood.

Disgusting

Well I don't see it as only Konami's fault.

We have to say thank you to every idiot out there who plays farmville, angry birds, anyone who likes to pay to play games on your crappy Iphone/Android Smartphone, whatever, anyone who likes to play using a touchscreen as a D-Pad even though it's horrible and unresponsive.
And all those people who P2W...you are also responsible.

Thank you guys. You are ruining videogaming each passing days with your lack of judgment on how to spend money on games. There are far more better games on a Ps2 than an Iphone could ever have. I hope one day you guys get fired for playing on the job.

People who really like games as art - real gamers, (not those annoying casuals who think games are for mostly kids yet play stupid games) are the one who end up being ignored.
I just don't get it why Konami can't support mobile to be their main source of money and consoles Pc as their main source of good games that push things forward in gameplay and art.

I'm ready for a market crash now. I just hope mobile gaming will be first blood.

Konami sucks

Well, MGSV will officially be the last Konami game I buy then. Thanks for the memories, but I can't go along with the dumb decision.

This is probably why Kojima left, they wanted to turn him into a crapy Mobile-Game dev, churning out horrible Micro-transaction MGS rip-offs.

R.I.P Konami - the owner/creator of my favourite franchise (castlevania) the owner of Metal Gear (a good franchise) and only run by people who only want success in their own country and nothing else, because westerners must be sssooooo bad right?

Konami is dead to me. Hope the mobile bubble bursts strong in their face.

He's just a big bowl of stupid isn't he?

First Silent Hills cancellation, now this. So this means MGS5 is really the last one in the series cause I'll be damned if I play MGS on a phone. Probably wont be worth playing anyway without Kojima behind it. Sony, MS, someone, please buy the rights to some of these IPs before Konami squanders them into an embarrassing pile of garbage.

First I would like to say sorry for the length of this comment.

As a smartphone user I think this is a terrible decision on Konami's part. Most of the games that I seen or played on my phone tend to be not that great because of a few reasons. The controls tend to be a pain depending on the screen-size, most graphic heavy games make the phone get pretty hot from the amount of resources needed to run them, and the phones are not consistent for what they can and can't handle because of the large amount of hardware variances. There is a reason why I still prefer playing games on a console or pc. I don't know where they get their numbers from but I think they are taking it too far. They would be better off keeping a large presence for consoles and the like since they already have a foundation there, and then make a smaller area that is dedicated for mobile. That would prevent the alienating of most of their users and current fanbase for an uncertain business venture.

GOOD BYE KONAMI!

I WILL KEEP PLAYING YOUR OLD GAMES AND IGNORE YOUR FUTURE MOBILE CR@P!!

I don't even...

This is completely asinine!!!! In NO WAY will I continue to support Konami if they go mobile. Sure I love games, and sure I have a newish phone, but gaming on a phone is ridiculous!! Phones are for mindless simple lame games, not for time involved epic games of Badassnessitude! So take it back Konami, and please make your next statement "PSYCHE"

Oh good now please stay away from pc and consoles, you have nothing left anymore.

Ok REAL TALK, Lot's of Japaneses publishers are going Mobile... THAT'S ABSOLUTELY TERRIBLE! What that means is less and less games coming from japan. Game infused with Japaneses culture are important, they provide western gamers with something different. Game like Katamari and even Metal Gear wouldn't be a thing without a little Japaneses flair.

IS THIS WHAT GAMING HAS BECOME!? JUST ASSASSIN'S CREED AND CALL OF DUTY???!

So I suppose Rumble Roses XXX is off the table now.

Konami now the best game publisher of ouya.

That's fine. Sega is doing it too, and I have enjoyed many more games from Sega than from Konami.

What worries me is that they will try to push their best IPs onto mobile platforms. Worse, just to make sure AAA entries don't make mobile entries look like shit, they may refuse to license out those IPs to AAA developers under reasonable terms.

OOOO who knows maybe we might still have Silent Hills, but on a 4 inch screen with state of the art tinny speakers, subpar graphics and micro transactions to unlock jump scares. DAMN!!! FUTURE LOOKIN GOOD!

Just what we need. MORE MOBILE GAMES!


-_-

I dont play any games on my Android Smartphone....

I am surprised they are not cancelling MGS V too.

F you Konami.

It's been a good 20+ years knowing you Konami, but I guess this is going to be the parting point. At least the developers that retreated from there will carry on the old Konami spirit hopefully, as Igarashi has wholly demonstrated with his current project. He seems intent on bringing more to his longtime fans than ditching them solely for profit margins (which is admittedly just business at its core.) I really hope that others like Kojima and the KojiPro team, Fujii, and the other former devs that have left recently find their way in a post-console Konami world.

Can Konami please sell off their console IPs? If Suikoden ever did come back, I don't want it to be a mobile trading card game only available in Japan. That's a fate worse than death for such a fantastic RPG franchise.

Couldn't tell you the last Konami game I bought. Silent Hill and Castlevania haven't been what they used to be in a long time.

Welp...see ya, then. It's not like you were doing anything anyway, Konami.

After great and successful Phantom Pain, Kojima should make something like Fatal Gear and Violent Hill and I'll forget konami :-)

Well, that's what happens when you loose your creative talent. You must follow the generic masses. I'm Sure Konami will find success with this model. I'm just glad Mr. Kojima jumped ship before it happened!

Goodbye, Konami.

Sell all your worthwhile IPs off to companies that will use them properly. K thnx. Bai.

All these publishers turning to the mobile market. smh. For every clash of clans, there are thousands of failures.