They could have given Gradius to Treasure again.
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Wakka flocka vocabulary time 
Even if they could, I’m sure it’d turn out great just like when they outsourced Castlevania and Silent Hill!
You know, depending on game, chadouken either got many more lives, fully powered up, or just blew himself to pieces.
Then you havent been thinking about it very hard because the answer to your question is pretty simple.
Pretty sure Kojima’s father was in the military, which is why he has such a strong love/obsession with it.
We can’t have that today because it costs a hell of a lot more to make a modern game with modern graphics & production values compared to the PS1-era.
Soooo Konami DIDN’T want to sell off the IPs to devs that could have made games? Which could have made Konami some extra cash?
Yeah that’s a good move…
Dante? Otacon? Raiden?
It’s a funny image, please don’t sweat the details.
Dante knows all about when a company tries to kill you and your creator…
I’m sure he and Snake would be bros if they were real.
The $50 million dollar ad campaigns that are pretty much par for the course for Triple-A titles doesn’t help either.
No man sky is being made by 12 people, they’ve been at it for about 2 years now. I think it is most definitely possible. that just isn’t the normal business practice right now.
Rather than mobile killing consoles, my point is that consoles have been tightening the rope around their necks with each incoming generation and their supposed new revolutionary graphics. At this point, videogames are stuck in the same hole than movies: graphics have become so costly to develop than now tens millions and several years have to be invested to produce a single game and, since upping the price of the game accordingly is out of the question, they have to aim at the broadest audience possible (aka dumbing down the games to levels never known before) and even then profits are poor.
I used to believe that Nintendo was foolish to compete with consoles with subpar graphics but now I blame Sony and Microsoft for the sorry state of videogames: while the last three generations of consoles have been nothing but “better graphics” they have priced out every developer out there and now we have titles as year as we can count with our fingers. When even the companies that have the money to fund the videogames are retiring from the sector, the writing is on the wall. I agree that blaming Konami as shortsighted or stupid is missing the big picture here.
I gotta respect that…
This path of extreme risk aversion is painful to watch. Why do people get into the Japanese industry now-a-days? What happened to video games being art and talent driven. JP companies are pandering to the LCD for returns.
The industry went down a path where tiny projects yield giant returns and you want to get in on that, that’s fine. But what happened to letting developers work on their stuff sometimes, too? I read all the time about how developers in JP companies want to make so and so game but we rarely see them do it. I never see this for western devs to the lvls of the JP. I can definitely see Square-Enix and Capcom heading down this same road, eventually. It’s gotten so bad that they even cut humongous corners on the AAA titles they do release.
Maybe (hopefully) some of the let loose staff will join TRS. that would be nice.
not sure if this can even be considered news
metal gear is obv ending with kojima leaving the company
silent hill already killed off
what other AAA franchises does that leave on console? shitty 3d castlevanias (good riddance).
this basically just confirms they aren’t working on a secret suikoden game, or that if they are it’s not going to be on console or be a AAA budget release.
maybe if the company doesn’t spend an eternity making high-budget games it might do them some good.