Don't worry about the IPs. Their legacy will live on and get great treatment with free to play mobile games and pachinko machines.
![[up]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/smiles/arrow_up.png "[up]"){kind=icon}
If they sold the I Ps then they couldn't make Pachinko machines or crappy ass mobile games... So no way they will sell em.
Darling.
Welp, stick a fork in it.
Visit my Tumblr! I may say things. The Bureau Project
Constellation
Despite hearing about Konami's weird and deteriorating business for a good while, actually seeing the inevitable still comes as a surprise to me.
Hopefully, Konami's IP's will be bought up and used by some other company who gives a damn.
edited 18th Sep '15 9:34:50 AM by OrionAurora
We are all made of star stuff. Very, very weird star stuff.
They won't sell their IPs.
They need a theme for their pachinko machines and mobile games.
Creating a new IP would be too much work and/or money.
edited 18th Sep '15 9:36:09 AM by unnoun
That guy
Konami's been producing AAA games?
When?
Your momma's so dumb she thinks oral sex means talking dirty.
Well, there was one that came out on September 1st.
Not many other than that recently.
Queen of Good Things, Honest
I won't mourn for Metal Gear Solid because that is a franchise that, at least, got a proper conclusion even if there were a few dead-horse sequels afterward.
But R.I.P. Silent Hill and Castlevania.
My Tumblr. Currently liveblogging Haruhi Suzumiya and revisiting Danganronpa V3.
At least Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist came out before this announcement.
The Protomen enhanced my life.
Shock! Horror! What a twist!
...said no one ever.
Yu-Gi-Oh has never been triple A. Also, it's made more money than MGS with much lower costs so expect more d-d-d-dueling from them. 
Yeah, this announcement is about console releases. The Yu-Gi-Oh! trading card game will continue to see support from Konami.
I meant a Yu-Gi-Oh PS 4/Xbox One game that came out a month or two ago XD;
Fucking rest in peace, this company went to shit.
I did some digging and found out that they're pulling 31 mobile games
, so that can't be all that they're pooling their resources into. It's clearly not doing well if they had to do that...
(I wonder why people aren't playing them... Could it be they're ANGRY? :P)
edited 18th Sep '15 10:27:26 AM by lalalei2001
The Protomen enhanced my life.
Hello again!
This really sucks. Silent Hill is one of my favorite series and now I probably won't ever see a new game ever again.
That had so much potential. What the fuck even is a Pachinko Machine??
You can't get it wrong if it's the truth!
That guy
Like a cross between pinball and a slot machine.
Your momma's so dumb she thinks oral sex means talking dirty.
What is pachinko?
$$$$
A horribly evil Super Mario Sunshine level.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=mario+sunshine+pachinko
Aside from that, it's the only legal gambling machine allowed in Japan (due to a loophole).
The Protomen enhanced my life.
x5 ever seen Plinko on the Price Is Right? its a long those lines.
The loophole is basically they dispense tickets depending on which hole you make it into which you can trade for items, just outside the Pachinko parlor will be someone who will buy those items for cash.
Really any machine that you might find at Chuck E Cheese fits the loophole but Pachinko is the closest to slots that it gets thats popular I think.
edited 18th Sep '15 10:39:02 AM by Memers
Queen of Good Things, Honest
The Silent Hill Pachinko game looks like a real slots...
◊ feel free to shit on it Japan, please.
Takat Empress
- Puts on tin foil hat
Konami is right mobile gaming is the future PS 4 and Xbox One will burn and the 3DS will live on with them!!!
edited 18th Sep '15 10:45:04 AM by Mizerous
Mileena Madness
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-09-18-konami-ceases-triple-a-console-production-on-all-but-pes-report
Gameblog wrote yesterday that Merceron was apparently unhappy with Konami's transition away from the console market towards mobile games.
Beyond Metal Gear Online - the separate online component to Metal Gear Solid 5 that is currently being finished - and Pro Evolution Soccer 2016, Konami has a blank triple-A slate. It does however have the licence to the football tournament Euro 2016, so we'd expect it to make use of that.
Problems at Konami were highlighted earlier in the year when Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima left the company and his Kojima Productions studio was dissolved. He had reportedly fallen out with Konami's big bosses who refused to bankroll his long and lavish productions any longer. Metal Gear Solid 5 reportedly cost $80m to make. Any new Metal Gear Solid game Konami produces will presumably be made without Kojima involved.
Further problems at Konami were highlighted when respected financial Japanese newspaper Nikkei ran an article about a deteriorating company culture at Konami's game division. Employees "deemed useless" were apparently given menial and degrading tasks, and communication with outsiders was restricted and lunch breaks monitored.
What comes next for Konami, and for Kojima, we'll have to wait and see.
All the signs were pointing to this happening, and it finally did. Let's use this topic to discuss Konami's future and reminisce about out favorite I Ps from their console releases.