Konami Says Main Platform Will Be Mobile

Wants to Change from Selling "Items" to Selling "Features"

By Bryan Smith on May 14, 2015 at 12:19pm

In an interview with Nikkei Trendy Net (translated by NeoGAF), CEO of Konami Hideki Hayakawa stated that Konami's future will be aggressively focused in mobile gaming.

We will pursue mobile games aggressively. 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. Hideki Hayakawa, Konami CEO

This statement by Hayakawa follows Konami cancelling "Silent Hills" and the reported departure of Hideo Kojima from Konami.