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G4- Konami President Shinji Hirano on Metal Gear and More

G4: "Adam Sessler talks with Konami President Shinji Hirano for a deeper look at everything revealed at their pre-E3 2011 press conference, including news on Metal Gear, Silent Hill, NeverDead, and a new Transfarring System."

MoDyDo4729d ago

Westernization, changing is good but scary

zackacloud4729d ago

Capcom in RE and DMC just failed.

Square Enix FF13 just failed.

Because their smart CEOs think when Westernization their huge titles people will like it in west.

The truth west people miss real DMC , RE and FF.

Changing isn't Raiden complete game enough ??

I love the idea of Rising, ninja way of fighting and hiding it very intrested to play.

And i was wish to play raiden in mgs4 but now get a whole adventure ( whole game ) and i just love it.

MoDyDo4729d ago

You know, what I noticed is that no western developer has ever said we need to easternize our games to cater for eastern audience and they delivered a lot of great games that also have been received positively in the japanese market, on the other hand japanese developers are so desperate to cater for the western audience and they forgot what made their games what they were
MGS is my favorite franchise and it's a great franchise and I just hope they don't screw it up like the games you mentioned

smashman984729d ago

Im sorry but Resident Evil 5 failed?

may not have been the best in the series but by no means did it fail

and DMC isnt even out yet so how could it have failed

And ffXIII most certainly did not fail once again not the best in the series but even then i would give it a solid 8/10

add that to the fact that it sold millions of copies there is no way that can be considered a failure

smashman984729d ago

what i will agree with is that these companies need to stop saying we should westernize these games how bout " we should create a game that is totally original and awesome and will sell well because of it" if we saw more of this it would be great

MoDyDo4729d ago

I think he meant it by a fan of these games perspective, these games aren't that good compared to the originals except for DMC cuz as you said it's not out but for what we saw we're just worried, the point is westernization didn't really workout that well, just look at demon's souls, this game caters for RPG gamers not only western gamers.

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VampiricDragon4729d ago

the best thing they are doing right now is publishing 3 rpgs in japan

I want to see those plus suikoden

MoDyDo4729d ago

of course there are great games in japan but how many compared to western games in this gen?

VampiricDragon4729d ago

Way more to me. But thats my opinion

Konamis best work this gen was on portables.

MoDyDo4729d ago

Each one of us has his opinion but the mass is something else, I enjoyed some jap games this gen and there are great games coming soon (last guardian, tales of graces f, tales of xillia) and I hope more will come :)

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Neko_Mega4729d ago

I just get how Peace Walkering and MGS3 is coming to 360 to.

RevXM4729d ago

This winter season...
RISING for Nintendo Cafe?

soljah4729d ago

not sure way. but somehow the name konami on a game title doesn't excite me like it used to. even the metal gear universe is wearing thin. i loved how all those old mgs games had that quirky Japanese feel to them. now it seems like kojima n komani want their games more like cod and battlefield, not a good thing, hope the other Japanese developers don't sell out.

soundslike4729d ago

That was a really good interview, although short.

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Konami Marks New Record With 70% Profit Increase Driven by Games

Silent Hill and Metal Gear Solid publisher Konami has reported record profits this year, driven largely by its video games and amusements.

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CS75d ago

Interesting that Konami is releasing nothing of note and still enjoying high profits. I guess this is the allure to companies.

VenomUK5d ago

It was probably due to the half-hearted release of the Metal Gear Solid Collection v1.

Imagine the extra sales Konami could’ve made if it had put some effort into it.

JL29303d ago (Edited 3d ago )

Half hearted? MGS: MC is the best collection of Metal Gear games you can get with tons of bonus content.

Why are you mad? Because they didn't make the games 4K so you can see the low resolution textures and warping better? Most of you cry babies never even touched the MSX Metal Gears.

SimpleDad5d ago

Of course, they rereleased MGS series on modern platforms. Thank You Mr. Kojima.

shinoff21834d ago

Suikoden 1 and 2 remasters any day now wtf konami

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Since The Contra Revival Shows Konami Still Cares, How About A New Castlevania?

Hanzala from eXputer: "Contra: Operation Galuga is a classic revival done right, but why hasn't Konami done the same yet for the bigger and more popular Castlevania?"

shinoff218341d ago

Slowdown. Let them get these suikoden games done first. Alot of us are still waiting for those

XiNatsuDragnel41d ago

Castlevania fighting game for wii needs to be remade plz

Aphrodia40d ago

well, the new C ontra was made by Wayforward, who have been taking sooooo many of these classic franchises and making new iterations of them. Imo they aren't very good at it. And I don't see operation galuga being a large enough success to possibly give them Castlevania.

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Konami Announces Record Financial Results and Boosts Sales and Profit Outlook for the Full Year

Today Konami announced its financial results for the first nine months of the fiscal year, related to the period between April 2023 and December 2023.

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Murdability99d ago

It’s almost like Metal Gear is a well known franchise

just_looken99d ago

Horrible news more proof todays "gamer" is just a cow ready to be milked.

That mgs collection is no better than my ps3 copy but my ps3 copy has 0 server restrictions i always roll my eyes when reviewers or these new "youtube gamer" channels show off the information books on a webpage via a trash in game browser or the lack of controller support like it s a good thing.

Also GOG still has a better version mgs 1 or use the duck ps1 emulator.

Well time for the peace walker remaster pc port 480p 20fps needs a rtx 3090 or 6900xt to run with dunovo konami account then a govt id check.

just_looken97d ago (Edited 97d ago )

All the bonus content on the new collection needs a konami server to load them up if you pull your lan cord only the games will work but that is temp as those games are digital goods.

When i said digital i know there is a disc version games are on the disc i was referring to the pc version and the patches after the fact but yes ps5 has a disc version.

Here is the online bit
https://youtu.be/3ujpsTbNk4...