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Recently Konami has been the recipient of a lot of negative criticism. The
story began to surface in mid-March 2015 with Konami removing Hideo
Kojimas name from various spots on the official Konami-MGS site. On
Konami's website, logos for Kojima Productions, and tags for "a Hideo Kojima
game" have been extensively removed from any & all promotional materials
for Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain, Metal Gear Solid: The Legacy
Collection and Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes. However according to a
Konami spokesperson Konami Digital Entertainment, including Mr. Kojima,
will continue to develop and support Metal Gear products. Please look
forward to future announcements.
On his official Twitter account, Kojima has continued to tweet about Metal Gear
Solid. On March 16 (the day organizational restructuring went into effect)
the tweeted "a break" with a picture of the game, as well as "heading off."
However that was just the beginning. On April 27 th 2015 Konami removed the
entirety of its stocks from the New York Stock Exchange. When asked Konami
officials said the deletion of the company from the New York Stock Exchange
was a cost savings measure as 99.71 % of the companys stock trading over
the past year occurred in Japan and London. While this alone is not disturbing on
its own, a few hours prior the company announced
Trailer: P.T.
While all that sounds great there is also a darker side to the source of this
shift of focus
A videogame in a pachislot
The conclusion
As it seems at the moment, with Konamis allocated focus towards mobile
gaming and gambling we will see less and less of the games we loved and
grew up with like Metal Gear Solid and Silent Hill. What will happen next
regarding the release and development of such future titles, while it looks
grim, is not yet clear.