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General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: FancyFeast on April 02, 2008, 11:35:33 PM

Title: How has Konami stayed afloat these past 3 years?
Post by: FancyFeast on April 02, 2008, 11:35:33 PM: 3 years into a money sink of epic proportions.

No real games I can recall.

No nothing.

They totally missed out on the 360, Capcom is royally fucking them in the ass.

Their footyball game is a mess.

Any ideas how they are doing? Who is keeping them afloat?
Title: Re: How has Konami stayed afloat these past 3 years?
Post by: Van Cruncheon on April 02, 2008, 11:36:42 PM: yugioh, duh
Title: Re: How has Konami stayed afloat these past 3 years?
Post by: FancyFeast on April 02, 2008, 11:37:42 PM: Quote from: Professor Prole on April 02, 2008, 11:36:42 PM
yugioh, duh

Do they still make that? ???
Title: Re: How has Konami stayed afloat these past 3 years?
Post by: MCD on April 02, 2008, 11:37:52 PM: rumble roses xx dlc!
Title: Re: How has Konami stayed afloat these past 3 years?
Post by: FancyFeast on April 02, 2008, 11:38:29 PM: Quote from: Groo on April 02, 2008, 11:37:31 PM
Same as Take Two.

What is funny though, is why shares are going up on the cusp of their major releases, when it's blatantly obvious both businesses will be fucked once their titles have come out and they have nothing left.

Take2 is horribly corrupt, what is Konami's excuse for their misfortune?

Where the fuck are the games?
Title: Re: How has Konami stayed afloat these past 3 years?
Post by: Van Cruncheon on April 02, 2008, 11:40:54 PM: yugioh's now ripped off harry potter with the dx series, catapulting it back into the spotliJESUS CHRIST WHY DO I KNOW THIS END ME
Title: Re: How has Konami stayed afloat these past 3 years?
Post by: jiji on April 03, 2008, 12:51:17 AM: Winning Eleven/PES sells well year-round in Yuroland and Japan. That's the only explanation.
Title: Re: How has Konami stayed afloat these past 3 years?
Post by: Joe Molotov on April 03, 2008, 12:53:40 AM: Riding off PS2 residual sales, just like most of the rest of the industry.
Title: Re: How has Konami stayed afloat these past 3 years?
Post by: pilonv1 on April 03, 2008, 12:56:52 AM: http://www.gamefaqs.com/features/company/10626.html

What a shitty list of 2007 games.
Title: Re: How has Konami stayed afloat these past 3 years?
Post by: Joe Molotov on April 03, 2008, 12:59:25 AM: Quote from: pilonv1 on April 03, 2008, 12:56:52 AM
http://www.gamefaqs.com/features/company/10626.html

What a shitty list of 2007 games.

There's about 100 games on that list and at least 70 of them are WE, PES, or a Wii/XBLA rom dump.
Title: Re: How has Konami stayed afloat these past 3 years?
Post by: Smooth Groove on April 03, 2008, 01:01:15 AM: Does Castlevania make much money?

I don't recall seeing it in the top 10 although it's a popular franchise among the hardcore.

Quote from: Genghis Cohen on April 03, 2008, 12:58:30 AM
PES crams money into Konami's asshole like nobody's business.

Sales of PES have declined quite a bit in recent years.
Title: Re: How has Konami stayed afloat these past 3 years?
Post by: BamYouHaveAids on April 03, 2008, 01:05:16 AM: Quote from: Smooth Groove on April 03, 2008, 01:01:15 AM
Does Castlevania make much money?

I don't recall seeing it in the top 10 although it's a popular franchise among the hardcore.
they have been recycling the same assest for the last 10 years, so i doubt it needs to sell much to keep its head above water

i can't even stomach playing the games anymore
Title: Re: How has Konami stayed afloat these past 3 years?
Post by: Debaser on April 03, 2008, 01:09:33 AM: It doesn't get much online attention, but DDR is also still a big moneyspinner for Konami.
Title: Re: How has Konami stayed afloat these past 3 years?
Post by: Crushed on April 03, 2008, 01:11:14 AM: Quote from: Smooth Groove on April 03, 2008, 01:01:15 AM
Does Castlevania make much money?
Oh yes, Castlevania is a huge money maker, you wouldn't believe how many thousands* buy the games.

*Several.
Title: Re: How has Konami stayed afloat these past 3 years?
Post by: Himu on April 03, 2008, 01:18:06 AM: suikoden v owned
Title: Re: How has Konami stayed afloat these past 3 years?
Post by: Joe Molotov on April 03, 2008, 02:04:09 AM: I don't think it sold very well though.
Title: Re: How has Konami stayed afloat these past 3 years?
Post by: Mr. Gundam on April 03, 2008, 02:10:29 AM: Konami has continued churning out kick ass baseball games: Power Pro, Power Pro MLB, and Pro Baseball Spirits.

Too bad they don't come out in North America, aside from Power Pro MLB 2.
Title: Re: How has Konami stayed afloat these past 3 years?
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on April 03, 2008, 03:16:41 AM: Quote from: Genghis Cohen on April 03, 2008, 01:10:22 AM
Konami had the chance to rule the world about three years ago. :(

"Who wants to stand around and play with a pretend plastic guitar? Haw haw haw."

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Title: Re: How has Konami stayed afloat these past 3 years?
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on April 03, 2008, 03:19:39 AM: They spent so much time fiddling with their patents they neglected to release a game. :(