Konami profits up by 159%, as mobile games gain traction

I'd like to think that this doesn't affect me, but it does to the extent that we'll never see new entries in our beloved franchises (that aren't a F2P mobile game or pachinko machine), or at least not for a long while.

But as long as there are developers making the sorts of games that I want to play, I'll still buy them. Heck, even if consoles eventually disappear, there'll always be the PC.

God bless the PC.

Calling casual and/or console gamers "peasants" is not cool man.

As for core gamers - which ones do you mean? The ones with top percentage machins that egged on the push for always cutting edge graphics leading to current trend of AAA games that spend millions on shiny looks, often at cost of gameplay? Or maybe the ones that go apeshit when a promising game with nice pixel art gets some coverage because it's "indie trash" and not an AAA title? Let's stop kidding ourselves - the business model of mobile games is making them more profitable, yes, but we are at least as much to blame here because we are the ones who voted with our wallets and brought on the situation where games can sell millions of copies and still be a commercial failure.

Also one other thing to keep in mind - there is no real surprise mobile games in japan brin g a huge profit increase. You have to remember that average japanese gamer is going to be an horrendously overworked salaryman. These people don't have time for personal life, leave alone for non-mobile gaming.

You know what?

My mentality is "Let these old publishers vanish into the sunset, chasing after their dollars." We're headed into a Renaissance of independent game development, where true artistic game creators are taking more independent routes to come up with games that players will enjoy. Concerned more with the idea of creating a work they personally enjoy rather than churning out a product that will bring the most out of an investment.

Yes, it's still going to be a treacherous road, and yes, AAA development does look on its way to crashing - but it's seriously making way for these smaller titles to take root and approach the field of popularity.

So I Say. Let them chase after mobile and handhelds. Sure, they're surging now but the sustainability of that market will crumble as connectivity of devices continues to rise and you can play console level game from your handheld through your computer/cloud/whatever. Players will want affordable titles with complete connectivity over all their devices. Not something a mobile-only market can accommodate.

Meanwhile, easily accessible console titles will continue to push and sustain a gaming market on the consumer end with better focus on game-play thanks to the lower budget limitations. I really thing companies got ahead of themselves when pushing the bleeding edge of technology for entertainment. We're past the Uncanny Valley now, we don't need to go further, and often it's not wanted.

Because you used pesants in quotation marks I'm surprised anyone was offended by it. Offense was obviously not the intent. Konami could care less about AAA titles right now. America is the entertainment producing world leader. If Japan doesn't provide for our markets demand then I'm sure we can do something ourselves for supply. Someone certainly will. I just will miss new Castlevania, but I have Bloodstained and all the old games so I'm set.

Well, considering the thread title, I don't see the heads of Konami changing any time soon.

We could... kill them

I guess it's less "offended" and more "annoyed". Annoyed because words like that tend to only stoke the flames of war between various types of gamers which is really frustrating to see. PC Gamers, Console Gamers, heck, even Mobile Gamers although I loathe mobile games myself and wouldn't touch one. We all share one and the same hobby so why the hell do we spend time fighting and belittling one another? It's just stupid, escpecially considering even at current time and age we are an acceptable target for attacks of non-gamers much too often. Myself I spent most of my life with just a PC but I don't intend to let that limit me. If a game interests me I'll use whatever system necessary to play it, and if it comes on multiple ones I'll pick whichever is most convenient.

As for graphics - yeah I'll accept console gamers can be as graphics obsessed as pc gamers, but I still maintain the later are more responsible for pushing what is accepted and not in terms of graphics simply because they can squeeze out more. And I think we pushed graphics too far to fast - even current gen PC graphic cards are starting to have trouble keeping up is it a wonder consoles can't, especially if by the time a new one comes out it's hardware is already outdated? Used to be that high-end graphic settings were something of a bragging right, nowdays people seem to have the mindset that anything below ultra or equivalent is subpar (and call me old fashioned but the 2k/4k screens at 120 fps feel like a bit overkill). I think it'd be good if our graphical march slowed down and paced itself a bit but I doubt that's going to happen.

Well I'll shut up now, appologies for the derail everyone ^^"

You seem to not understand. I don't want stoke the flames of war between various types of gamers, but I only criticized a part of gamers.
I criticized them who ruin game industries with mobile games and many, not all, console players who speak without having knowledge on what they talk about.
We are free to play with every sistem we want, but not to do fake information like many fanboys do.
I had bad experiences on internet with console fanboys (especially Sony fanboys) who treat you as well as nazis treated jews, only because you have a PC and for them, if you're a PC gamer, automatically you're only interested on graphic detail.
This is ridiculous, follow a site for know about new games and read the attack and the idiocy of many peasants, yes peasants, because many console gamers are this.
I have some friends who play with consoles and you can talk freely with them about console games and PC games, and for this reason I consider them "gamers".
It's sad to do console wars but if there is a thing that I hate is when someone say inacurate things, and not only about gaming...

The graphic detail make a game more godible, but yes, plot and gameplay is very important. Isn't true that if you have an awesome graphic you have a poor gameplay.
Also, isn't true that current PC graphic cards have problems because, for example, I have a friend with a 2 years old PC (cost: 900€) and he play The Witcher 3 at Ultra detail and 50 - 60 fps.
I have a better PC with a 1440p monitor but at the moment I don't have bought The Witcher 3, because I must finish Final Fantasy VIII... not a graphic cards killer. XD
If you search on YouTube you can find a video where a PC that cost 450$ have a more stable frame rate than a PS4. Yes, 450$!!!
You think that high resolutions and an high frame rate are unuseful but if you start to play games with this high quality you'll not turn back.
That's not true that if I have a new graphic card and after 3 months comes out a new one the first become outdated. Maybe with the first you can play at 2K and with the second at 4K, but if you don't have a 4K monitor the second card is a waste of money and power. A graphic card become outdated when can't run the games at the quality that you want but a new graphic card will run games at Ultra level for many years but depending on you, as I said. We wait the new DX12 for a better graphic features and less heavyness; DX11 aren't very good graphic libraries.
Technology evolves and if the PC would be a reference platform nowadays we would see better graphic and other interesting features. The hardware is evolved enough but until the console will be the reference plateform we will see a slow evolution of the software at the expence of the harware. That's why DDR4 RAM are unuseful for gaming, because old DDR3 are perfect for actual games and DDR4 are more powerful, but what you do with great power if games don't use it all?

The evolution of graphic card is a very good thing not only for gaming but even for science applications.

Evolution is progress, progress is improvement;
Staticity is outdating, outdating is death.

P.S.: I'll shut up too. After this digression I will return to be a common user who speak about Bloodstained.

my main problem with mobile gaming is the touchscreen, its what keeps me from playing emulators on it for very long when im not home or on my pc, and its a large part of whats keeping me from playing all the square ports on it. if they found a way to make a clip on controller that wasnt huge, a pain to pair up, or stupidly expensive, id play on it more and a bit less on my DS. (that said, i absolutely love touchscreen UIs for menus, but movement is sometimes very frustrating how fiddly it is and anything that requires button mashing, multiple button inputs, shoulder buttons, or precise input is a nightmare)

i have a huge problem with the microtrans games that are designed to vaccuum up your money, so i just dont play them.
i have less of a problem with games that are ALL PRETTY NO SUBSTANCE NEXT GEN GRAPHICS FTW BLAAARHGHLGAARGLEGARGLEHAMMER! (developer, console, pc, doesnt matter), so i often either skip them, buy them used after someones gotten bored with it, or wait till it goes on sale on steam, play it till i get bored of it, and then it sits on a shelf till i remember i have it and debate whether to finish it or play something else (this unfortunately happens with rpgs too, but thats more of a "do i have time to play it, not do i want to play it >.<).