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Konami Hates Gamers

Konami is at it yet again with their convoluted nonsense. It seems as though that they want to drive all gamers away from their business in favor of Pachinko Machines.

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xDealtwithIt3455d ago

Konami is going where the japanese gaming market is making the most money. Mobile and pachinko.

rocketpanda3455d ago

Absolutely. Most J-mobiles games use the gacha-gacha system to earn random characters or loot in which you need premium currency at having a chance at getting a rare item or character with a 0.1% chance of getting an S-Rare. Fans will gladly pay to try to get the characters or items.

Some Japanese friends of mine will spend the equivalent of $100 or more on premium currency monthly of f2p game at having a chance of getting super rare items or characters. Especially the super MOE characters.

This is where the money is in Japan, not console gaming anymore. Most ads on TV and billboards in Japan are also mobile games, the exception recently was FF15, but those have all gone now.

bouzebbal3455d ago

i really do not understand why people are so insisting on talking s*** about Konami.
They have possibility to get more money somewhere else and they are trying to take the chance. Game development is more and more costly so they are trying to save.
What we hear is that they treat their employees like crap but we have no certainty. There are organisations that defend employees, and especially in Japan and the first loser will be the company itself if this is true.

rocketpanda3455d ago (Edited 3455d ago )

@bouzebbal
Are you selective to information to defend the skidmark of a company that is Konami? Nothing wrong with being a business that wants to thrive and make money like most developers out there. Konami on the other hand decides to bar one of the most iconic developers from receiving an award then lies to say he is on holiday. Same said developer worked segregated from other developers for the last few months before releasing MGS5. What a great company to work for right!

Konami lost most of its iconic talents that made castlevania, suikoden, silent hill and metal gear first class IPs. Blah blah, costs money to make games, if Konami hadn't farmed their IPs to cheap 3rd party developers to make a quick buck then they wouldn't be in the situation they're in now. Quick money for no effort. Basically they have metal gear and pro evo left . As bad as EA and Ubisoft can be at times they have never reached such lows as Konami. They can make all the money they want from pachinko crap and just leave gaming to developers that know what the hell they're doing. Keep defending a company with thst tiny violin. They even lost their own source code for silent hill then tried to sell a hd remake of silent that played and looked worse than the original versions. Konami is garbage and deserves all negative press they get.

zodiac9093455d ago

But people who play on mobile aren't real gamers anyway...So Konami really hates gamers when you think about it. ;)

UltraNova3455d ago

I hope no pokemon go fans read your comment...

S-Word3455d ago

Another garbage blog site trying to be relevant. Uses thumbnails of trannys to try and get people to watch their video. Sad.

xer03455d ago

Yep... dirty tactics! :(

BrianOBlivion3455d ago

How the hell would pics of trannys ENTICE someone to watch the video?

Bobafett4ever3455d ago

Konami Hates Gamers...CLEARLY

Ben123455d ago

Konami has not made a game that interests me in years. Last good game in my opinion was super contra

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Microsoft Gaming Revenue Drops 7% Year-on-Year, Content and Services Down 5%, Xbox Hardware Down 33%

Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.

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Jin_Sakai29d ago (Edited 29d ago )

Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.

dveio29d ago

To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.

Jingsing29d ago

The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.

Tanktopmaster9229d ago

Once they re-evaluate exclusive all will be fine….

S2Killinit29d ago

Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.

Jingsing29d ago

15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.

Tanktopmaster9229d ago

These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse

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Games Done Quick is coming to Europe for the first time with 3 days of Gamescom speedruns

The charity event will be streamed live from Gamescom in August.

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Spiders Studio, Developers of GreedFall: The Dying World, Announce Liquidation of the Company

Spiders: "We're going to cut straight to the chase so you're not left wondering: After a long period without clear answers, we have received confirmation that Spiders is being liquidated.

What does it mean? This means the company as a whole no longer exists. We'll cease our functions immediately. The planned DLC will release via Nacon, and then-- well, that's it.

We're sorry that it's come to this and would like to thank each and every one of you for your support over the years.

If you have any questions or run into issues with your games, please contact Nacon directly as we'll no longer be able to reply."