The Konami that created classic arcade and console series like Contra, Gradius, Castlevania, Metal Gear Solid, and Silent Hill continues its slow descent into an almost unrecognizable company this week, with word that it is now focusing on mobile phones as its "main platform."
The information comes from a NeoGAF translation of a Japanese interview with new Konami President Hideki Hayakawa, which seems to line up with a machine translation of the original Nikkei Trendy Net piece. In the translation, Hayakawa says that Konami will "pursue mobile games aggressively," and that "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 Metal Gear Solid V and Winning Eleven continue to do well, but we are always thinking about how to push our franchises onto mobile there, too," Hayakawa continued. "With multiplatform games, there's really no point in dividing the market into categories anymore. Mobile will take on the new role of linking the general public to the gaming world."
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