Konami pulling back on Playstation 3 support?

I’m actually starting to feel sorry for SONY. No console has ever been beaten to a pulp like that before and right after launch.

I wanted them to suffer a bit for their arrogance, but this is starting to feel ridiculous. If this keeps up, the PS3 will have a shorter lifespan than the CD-I and 3DO.

Heh, it’s the curse. No console maker has stayed at #1 for more than two generations. First it was Atari, then Nintendo, and now Sony is gonna have to say “goodbye” to it’s much coveted spot at the top.

Heh, it’s the curse. No console maker has stayed at #1 for more than two generations. First it was Atari, then Nintendo, and now Sony is gonna have to say “goodbye” to it’s much coveted spot at the top.

Lol, never took that into consideration, but it would seem that you’re right, for the moment at lease. Let’s see if the curse lives on. That being said, I don’t think that curse applies to handhelds unless it hits above 17 years of success.

In the post you said “Right now all of this is just heresy,…” I think you meant hearsay and not heresy.

I really hope that Konami decides to continue the Suikoden line on PS3. I would be thoroughly put out if 360 ended up being the RPG platform of choice *shudder* I suppose as long as 360 continues sucking in Japan other platforms will be the target of RPGs and 360 will continue to get the odd random RPG (That being said, some of the 360 rpgs look really nice). The Wii seems a bit odd for RPG style games, navigating menus with a dpad is so much easier than with a Wiimote (in theory… Wii lacks RPGs to test this on.) I’m sort of curious about where NIS will put their next gen games. Wii seems like a sensible place since it would keep production costs down, but as far as I know they have yet to release anything that wasn’t on a Sony product. Oh well, I’m horribly off topic now so I’ll stop rambling.

I really hope that Konami decides to continue the Suikoden line on PS3. I would be thoroughly put out if 360 ended up being the RPG platform of choice *shudder* I suppose as long as 360 continues sucking in Japan other platforms will be the target of RPGs and 360 will continue to get the odd random RPG (That being said, some of the 360 rpgs look really nice). The Wii seems a bit odd for RPG style games, navigating menus with a dpad is so much easier than with a Wiimote (in theory… Wii lacks RPGs to test this on.) I’m sort of curious about where NIS will put their next gen games. Wii seems like a sensible place since it would keep production costs down, but as far as I know they have yet to release anything that wasn’t on a Sony product. Oh well, I’m horribly off topic now so I’ll stop rambling.

Yikes, someone’s been out of the loop for a while, the 360 is starting to raise some eyebrows with it’s exclusive RPGs. If the PS3 actually turns out to be the 3rd console in the race, the 360 might just be the console of choice for companies that wish to make RPGs with gorgeous graphics (Wii and DS can’t really do that).

2007 will be a year that will go down in the history of video games with: 3 way Game Console wars, Handheld wars, the new DVD format war, the best online service war and with the penetrations of HD TVs, the winner between LCD and Plasma should also be announced this year.

How convenient to COMPLETELY leave out the Konami Wii titles that were ALSO purported cancelled in this rumour? checking kotaku and joystiq, it seems 2 Konami Wii titles in development also won’t be seeing the light of day, does that mean Konami’s dropping Wii
support? Hell no. Does this mean they’re dropping PS3 support? Hell no.

Internet blog sensationalism at its best! /sarcasm
Learn to report objectively Yip, or you’ll be losing a lot of readers for Siliconera.

How convenient to COMPLETELY leave out the Konami Wii titles that were ALSO purported cancelled in this rumour? checking kotaku and joystiq, it seems 2 Konami Wii titles in development also won’t be seeing the light of day, does that mean Konami’s dropping Wii
support? Hell no. Does this mean they’re dropping PS3 support? Hell no.

Internet blog sensationalism at its best! /sarcasm
Learn to report objectively Yip, or you’ll be losing a lot of readers for Siliconera.

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On a more personal note, I couldn’t care less if Konami dropped dead. I never liked the Castlevania or the Metal Gear franchise, we have enough DDR versions to last us a lifetime the their TMNT games since the new cartoons were made suck balls.

Firstly, 2 games from Mistwalker and Chopin’s dream does not mean to 360 is the new haven for RPG players. My comment was more of a slightly commical musing by way of exaggeration. I’m a huge fan of Trusty Bell in theory, and Lost Odyssey looks really promising, but their console dooms them to relative obscurity. The only upside to RPGs being put onto 360 is that they NEED to be translated in order to have any hopes of making a profit. For the time being RPGs will remain strong on whatever platform Square-Enix supports with their Dragon ___ and FF ___ games due to the fact that those two games alone could sell a million consoles in Japan. Blue Dragon has managed to sell… obviously less than 200,000 consoles in Japan. As far as Bunz’s comment goes, Nintendo games were given the axe as well. Granted his post exhibited every bit as much sensationalism as he accused the site of.