Konami CEO: 'Mobile is where the future of gaming lies'

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Konami's big focus moving forward will be mobile, not AAA games, according to a translated interview with the company's new CEO Hideki Hayakawa.
The lengthy interview originally ran on Nikkei Trendy Net in Japanese. A NeoGAF user then translated a summary post from another Japanese site, so some of this may have been lost in translation. We continue to ask Konami officials for comment on the company and the state of its games in the wake of Hideo Kojima's rumored pending departure and the cancellation of Silent Hills. We will update this story if they respond.
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 Proespecially 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."
Hayakawa added that while they hope that Metal Gear Solid 5 and Winning Elevencontinue to do well, "we are always thinking about how to push our franchises onto mobile there too.
"With multiplatform games, there's really no point in dividing the market into categories anymore. Mobiles will take on the new role of linking the general public to the gaming world."

Read more: http://www.polygon.com/2015/5/14/8605313/konami-interview-mobile-is-where-the-future-of-gaming-lies.


What are your thoughts on this? 
 
He does have some good points, and Konami should take mobile seriously, so they can make good games for mobile devices.

I think some people who don't have much money are more likely to pay a few dollars for a game rather than $60-70 for a console game, or even $40 or less for a newly release downloadable PC Game because some people just don't have the money for new games.

Plus, there are fewer game rental places or arcades these days, so you can't rent a game before you decide you want to buy it making the decision even harder for people who are not sure if the game is good.

Mobile gamers can play games for 2 hours on Google Android, and request a cash refund if you dislike the game or app, or it does not work on your device.

Game consoles and Gaming PCs which can cost hundreds to thousands of dollars once you buy extra controllers, a bigger hard drive, headset, webcam/kinect, and other accessories like video cables, and adapters to use older controllers like the Gamecube controller on the Wii U. TVs, computer monitors, and electronic displays like Virtual reality headsets, and projectors also can cost hundreds to thousands of dollars, and require a lot of space, and electricity to run.
 
Demon_Skeith said:
Its fine if you want to branch into mobile market, but you don't kill your whole set up for it.
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This is exactly how I feel about this as well.

I don't mind them branching into the mobile market and focusing a EQUAL amount of time to both consoles and mobile, but to completely forsake your console games in favor of mobile just rubs me the wrong way.

As someone who is a big fan of Konami series like Castlevania,Metal Gear, and Silent Hill (still pissed they cancelled Silent Hills) it really does make me feel the company is going to fail its consumers in a major way in the coming years just so they can cash in on the mobile market.
 
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