Don't count on Konami doing anything memorable with the MGS name or any of their IPs from hereon out. Even if, by some divine miracle, they manage to pull their heads out of their GDMFin' asses and actually start
LISTENING to their fans and start making console games again (again, don't get your hopes up), they've already fired all their creative minds: Kojima, Iragashi, Team Silent, etc. and a lot of their developers have since left them. Not only that, but all the devs they have left simply won't be allowed to make the kind of game they want because of their ****ty work conditions, so Konami won't be able to do jack **** with the MGSs, the CastleVanias, etc. anymore beside royally F them up.
Don't count on them selling their IPs to a company who actually
GIVES a **** about the gaming industry and these great IPs, either, mark my words: it ain't happenin' unless they outright go bankrupt.
For all the stupid **** Capcom, Square-Enix, Sega, etc. have done, they've at least listened to their fans (RE2 and FF7 being remade, RE going back to Survival-Horror) and are slowly starting to turn things around and Sega at least still rides on the awesome Yakuza games this day and age. What exactly has Konami done since MGSV? Oh, right...
- Sabotaged Kojima's work on MGSV due to some contrived "budgeting" nonsense.
- Forced Kojima, the motherfuggin' MASTERMIND of the MGS series, out the door along with Koji Iragashi, the brains behind CV.
- Announced they were abandoning all future AAA games (and pretty much their fans in the process) for mobile gaming and FRIGGIN' PACHINKO MACHINES!
- Abruptly cancelled Silent Hills, arguably the most hyped SH game ever, and removed P.T. from the PS Store.
- Had allegations come out of them treating their staff like ****.
- Banned Kojima from the VGAs (talk about biting the hand that spoon fed you for 2 decades).
- Desperately needing to hit it out of the park in order to win their fans back, goes and makes a new Metal Gear game: Metal Gear: Zombie Edition! LMAO, you can't make this **** up.
Anything else I'm missing from this **** list?
But yeah, it bears repeating:
#F&cKonami!