The biggest offender in this is the us, the customers. Mobile gaming is HUGE in japan, and the rest of the world is closing in. It's pretty much printing money with no effort involved.
The biggest offender in this is the us, the customers. Mobile gaming is HUGE in japan, and the rest of the world is closing in. It's pretty much printing money with no effort involved.
Its going to become over saturated soon.. Many of these companies are literally looking at a short term outlook and going down a completely unsustainable path in the long term. Jim Sterling had a great video discussion on this that many executives only see three games: Candy Crush, Clash of Clans, and Call of Duty.. And they basically are abandoning lucrative game franchises in favor of these cash cows.. This is one of the larger reasons why the Indie scene has exploded in popularity and gains because they picked up many of the types of games these devs abandoned.
The biggest offender in this is the us, the customers. Mobile gaming is HUGE in japan, and the rest of the world is closing in. It's pretty much printing money with no effort involved.
Its going to become over saturated soon.. Many of these companies are literally looking at a short term outlook and going down a completely unsustainable path in the long term. Jim Sterling had a great video discussion on this that many executives only see three games: Candy Crush, Clash of Clans, and Call of Duty.. And they basically are abandoning lucrative game franchises in favor of these cash cows.. This is one of the larger reasons why the Indie scene has exploded in popularity and gains because they picked up many of the types of games these devs abandoned.
Really...i swear, the only the truly successful japanese gaming company left is Polyphony digital (Gran turismo series) Not only did they hire 1000 new people for GT7 development, but they also got the ex head sound engineers from Turn 10, SMS and bizarecreation.
and have the incredibly successful GT Academy, which has given birth to 10 real world Race drivers, 10's of millions of gamers compete in GT academy each year to be the next or the best. And GT as of 2014 has sold over 71 million units. i can really say that's a great success for a racing game. not to mention the partnerships with automotive companies..that seem to be endless(Vision GT)
That being said 7 better blow my socks off considering how much time, money and resources is being put into it.
They released a Silent Hill 2 & 3 " remastererd HD collection" with an early source code that wasn't the final product, one riddled with weird audio bugs and unfinished textures.
Kojima was fired and they cancelled Silent Hills, the company can die for all I care but they wont, they'll keep selling slotmachines, selling minigames for smartphones and other meaningless stuff in Japan.
Konami is dead as a gaming company, but it will probably find greater success as a company.
Mobile game development is simply too profitable compared to traditional game development. However, eventually mobile game development is going to become too crowded and everything will balance out once again.
After MGS V sales like 7+ million copies they are going to really kick themselves. I don't know how much of a slave driver kojima was to cause the fallout but he was their meat and potatoes so they really bit the hand that fed them.
Yep, all the mainline MGS titles were 4+ million sellers, with MGS4 rounding out 6 mil and MGS2 rounding out at 7. Not counting the multiple ports and collections over the years.
And that was on single platform releases. Now we have MGSV releasing on 5 platforms simultaneously. It has the open world aspect which is the popular trend in gaming these days. And it has intuitive controls in contrast to the convoluted schemes of the past games.
I really wonder how Konami is going to feel when this game blows past the previous titles in the series.
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