Konami’s focus will move forward to mobile, according to an interview with the company’s new CEO Hideki Hayakawa on Friday last week. The interview originally ran on Nikkei Trendy Net in Japanese. A user (NeoGAF) translated a summary post. So, the story is not confirmed officially by Konami yet. IGA.biz is asking Konami officials for confirmation and more background, but we got no Response yet. Also IGA.biz asked about the rumors of the departure of Hideo Kojima and the cancellation of Silent Hills.
According to the article, the company plans to pursue mobile games aggressively and make its main platform mobile. “Following the pay-as-you-play model of games like Power Pro and Winning Eleven with additional content, our games must move from selling things like ‘items’ to selling things like ‘features,'” according to the translation. “We saw with these games that even people who buy physical games are motivated to buy extra content. The success of Power Pro especially has motivated us to actively push more of our popular series onto mobile than ever before. “Gaming has spread to a number of platforms, but at the end of the day, the platform that is always closest to us, is mobile. Mobile is where the future of gaming lies.” Hideki Hayakawa added that while they hope that Metal Gear Solid 5 and Winning Eleven continue to do well, “we are always thinking about how to push our franchises onto mobile there too.
Source: Polygon; Nikkeibp; http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1046059
