Konami: 'We Will Pursue Mobile Games Aggressively'

14th May, 0 replies

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Konami has announced that it will be shifting away from console gaming to focus on the mobile market. The company will use the pay-as-you-play model, seen in games like Winning Eleven and Power Pro.

"We will pursue mobile games aggressively," Konami CEO Hayakawa told Nikkei, as translated by NeoGAF. "Our main platform will be mobiles. 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."

"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.

We hope that our overseas games such as MGSV and Winning Eleven continue to do well, but 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."

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