Silent Hills gets cancelled

[Ayen]

I can't find the link, but I read that a lot of people are speculating that Konami is more interested in building gambling machines or something because gambling laws might change in Japan to benefit the manufacturing of such things. This whole Kojima MGS/PT mess is basically the company clearing the way to transform into a different company.

Sad to see yet another developer that has been around since I first started console gaming turn heel on gamers, much like Capcom (though that situation was different).

I'll have my Cornette face ready if this turns out to be true.

[Scotty_ffgamer]

Their pachinko machines produced much more money for them than games if my memory of what I read is correct. I heard something about the possibility of gambling laws changing over there as well. I wouldn't be surprised if they changed their focus to be more on gambling and other more profitable things if that were true.

It would be kind of funny (and sad) if they started selling off their franchises. Hideo Kojima ends up getting hired on at another company who then buys Metal Gear and he gets stuck with it again. I kind of doubt they'll sell off their stuff like that, but it is a kind of funny scenario to think about.

[Sephex]

Their pachinko machines produced much more money for them than games if my memory of what I read is correct. I heard something about the possibility of gambling laws changing over there as well. I wouldn't be surprised if they changed their focus to be more on gambling and other more profitable things if that were true.

It would be kind of funny (and sad) if they started selling off their franchises. Hideo Kojima ends up getting hired on at another company who then buys Metal Gear and he gets stuck with it again. I kind of doubt they'll sell off their stuff like that, but it is a kind of funny scenario to think about.

Yeah, that's right. It was gambling based machines because I saw a lot of sarcastic comments in a thread of people ribbing Konami about pachinko.

[Ayen]

Metal Gear Solid, Castlevania, and Silent Hill pachinko machines confirmed!

[Scotty_ffgamer]

I wouldn't be surprised if they use some of their franchises in that capacity.

[Skyblade]

It would be kind of funny (and sad) if they started selling off their franchises. Hideo Kojima ends up getting hired on at another company who then buys Metal Gear and he gets stuck with it again. I kind of doubt they'll sell off their stuff like that, but it is a kind of funny scenario to think about.

Well, it could get Snake back in Smash...

[DMKA]

P.T. was bloody fantastic and this is all a travesty.

[Shiny]

I want answers.

[Sephex]

I'll give it a shot.

Ultimately video game companies don't actually care about us and just want go a route that would make them the most money. If any existing video game company felt that manufacturing cars or something would net them more money they would transition into that.

[Vyk]

One of the people investigating and one of the people who had an inside source on info. Unverified, but believable enough to be true, and corroborated by other places that have had inside sources talk about the happenings, and those things are mentioned. So this is a pretty good video to get a birds eye view of what we know so far, and what has been speculated if anyone is interested

[Fynn]

This is devastating news

[Psychotic]

Square-Enix should hire Kojima and have him direct Final Fantasy XVI. And yes, before some killjoy comes in, I know full well that's never going to happen in a million years. Just let me dream.

[Laddy]

This is pretty humiliating for Konami, actually. They had a very impressive bunch of dudes lined up for a project a lot of gamers were genuinely exciting for and then this happens.

Just sad.

[Shiny]

I'll give it a shot.

Ultimately video game companies don't actually care about us and just want go a route that would make them the most money. If any existing video game company felt that manufacturing cars or something would net them more money they would transition into that.

This game would have made them a lot of money. Reedus has a huge fan following as does Kojima and Del Toro is clever. This is just puzzling.

[Shauna]