The Silent Hill Konami Controversy You've Never Heard Of | Japan's Boycott Konami Movement 

Even the new games they release are dumpster fires, so... Konami can keep the pachinko.

Fukku Konami-san!

I'd say pachinko drama is rather unfounded. People often act like it's Konami-only thing, but when you do more research into pachinko machines... Just about every relevant Japanese series has bunch of pachinko machines dedicated to it, and they really aren't as packed with content as people seem to think - there isn't full blown MGS 3 remake for pachinko-only. Ace Attorney Trilogy also had "full-3D remake with full voice acting" for pachinko, except it's just the most famous moments from bunch of select cases, it's probably the same for about everything on pachinko.

@@hoyhoy852 Wasn't the problem with SH pachinko that a game got cancelled in favor for developing pachinko machine? CAPCOM has RE and AA pachinko machines, but it is an adaptation (to my knowledge) of a console game so development of new games for the franchise were not hurt. Development of Silent Hills were hurt in the case of Konami which was what fans were upset about.

@@hoyhoy852 It's less that people are mad about Pachinko machines, and more that people are mad about Pachinko machines to the exclusion of any actual games. If Konami was still releasing quality games at a decent clip, no one would care. The new Silent Hill projects sound promising, but the fact that they had to outsource development says dire things about the situation in-house.

On the NES- PS1, they were loved by most people. I even considered them my favorite company. It was a few years into the PS2 era that I started to see it all fall apart. They were making absolutely stupid decisions with Suikoden, Castlevania, DDR, ZOE and most of their other series. And every developer who could was running away from them. But as the video points out, it started even earlier than that in the 80s. We just didn't realize it until internet sharing became more mainstream.

@@maxis2k That's because Konami for most of it's early history had two-three(depending on the year) mostly independently ran game companies. In the early years there were two. One focused on the PC and none of those games really made it outside Japan. And the other focused on consoles, the one we know. They had their own management, their own game design teams, etc. Really they were two completely separate subsidiaries under the larger Komani group of companies, Konami's main business is casinos. Video games were, and still are, a side hustle. Anyway. For a little over a decade the different video companies named Konami, which were actually separate companies, were allowed to do whatever they wanted with little oversight from the main company so long as they turned enough of a profit the main company didn't have to bail them out. Because the main company wasn't going to bail them out. Which brings us to the problem with the larger Konami group, and why everything went to crap. The CEO and founder of Konami had a habit of just opening subsidiary companies in wildly different areas with a sink or swim mentality. He'd toss some starter cash at a company, hand off a few veteran managers into this new venture, the ones that made it made it, and if they failed they failed. Unfortunately for Konami.. for awhile way more was succeeding than failing and the adhoc nature of how they went about starting all those businesses meant there was never an overall manager. Which made the entire thing unwieldly. Noone could keep it all in their head what they owned and didn't. There were hotel chains, casino chains, resorts, tv production studios, video game studios, manufacturing, the original playing card company, etc etc etc. All of them somehow successful businesses, and all of it came about in around 20 years. Konami exploded everywhere very quickly. So in the 90s Konami started restructuring to try to bring all this stuff into some sort of manageable form. Everything got more centralized control. All the video game companies got merged into one company, Konami Digital Entertainment. And in a mistake of epic proportions that often happen with these types of restructures, none of the people put in charge of KDE had anything to do with anything digital at all. In their entire careers. Finance people got put in charge of it, but not finance people who'd been with those companies and knew the market. Bank managers and hotel chain managers ended up in charge of a massive video game company. So, that's the simplified history of Konami.

mpfff u konami haters are frankly even much worst than the konami itself.

Konami's revenue is up 10% from 2021, and 33% from 2013. I don't think they are desperate for anything - they are out of the videogame-market and aim for something else. Most likely they will sell the IP's they have, one by one and be done with it completely.

Wow, I didn’t know Ryukishi07 was involved in Silent Hill f until now. I didn’t give a crap about the SH revival and thought it was just another cynical Konami cash grab so I was ignoring most press releases. If he’s involved, I *might* keep an eye oh SHf.

@@Psy-J They're actually not. It's normal if you don't notice it since the games that revitalize Konami are Japanese-only Switch exclusive games. Ah, and also YuGiOh game I guess.

@@KaoruMzk This remake looks awful. I didn't like what was shown so far. It's unfortunate what Konami still CONTINUES to do with this franchise.

@@AlexanderPR2 yeah, the remake looks like garbage and it's being made by people who clearly don't understand Silent Hill, or horror in general. That one is dead on arrival.

Why would Konami "do better" by investing millions to make it happen when their minimum efforts earn them so much already

And a good example of that is all the awful SH announcements they made, and now everybody loves them!

This is why you don't see next gen console ports of these titles. Konami nuked the code.

Time to sail the high seas

it's not like i'm fine with it but isn't konami just like any other japanese company with 30+ years? Konami is just a few steps ahead the typical yearly Nintendo scandal

i hate to tell you but konami is just a little bit worse than most japanese companies and honestly if nintendo stoped making games they could've easily surpass konami in hate and bad practices. It's systemic

True

I would argue that Sega and Nintendo were earlier pioneers of bad business practices when they partnered with yakuza. Konami is definitely the current reigning king though.

all japanese companies are ran with terrible practices. all use to be friendly with the yakuza and all are terrible places to work for. with Hideo he laughed at the terrible idea from the wrong guy and that dude ended up becoming CEO cuz his terrible idea made the company a shit ton of money. so thats why Hideo got forced into a closet and not able to finish MGV.

@@Kris-wo4pj i don't call being hired by Sony and given an almost limitless fund to create death stranding, a "closet"

King?

Candy Crush. They tried to trademark the word candy.

If it's the same King Records I'm thinking of........something funny is that I remember voice actress Yukari Tamura used to release her music under Konami (as a record label), debuting with said label on 2001, and at some point transitioned over to King Records and released music there for a long time before making her Cana Aria sublabel with the help of MAGES. just the other year Could be a coincidental thing tho ahahah

Their 2020 financials is suspicious as fuck. They claimed that all the money they lost from pandemic restrictions was recovered through games sales. Exactly. Very unsubtle yakuza fronting. They're probably trying to bring SH back just to obfuscate audits.

It's actually more common for companies or people to try to trademark things you wouldn't think would be possible to actually copyright, since in the off chance that they get it it would have a big payout. Like I'm not defending Konami, but I can imagine that maybe them trying to copyright the term "visual novel" wasn't something that was done out of sheer hubris but rather a relatively risk free gamble with a small chance of success but a massive payout if they did actually get it.

Well, yeah, what did you think happened with Capcom and SNK, after Street Fighter 1. lol

Or LeBron James trying to trademark "Taco Tuesday"

They also threatened SEGA for helping to bring Pump it up (a korean ddr clone) to japan despite being a success almost everywhere else in the world, they probably know that everyone are making their games but better so they just throw lawsuits at everyone hoping that no one would stand up against them.

Sounds like Andamiro got ripped off. Imagine if Konami tried to sue Harmonix over Guitar Hero.

@@cabbusses Konami didn't sue over Guitar Hero, but they did for Rock Band. Fun fact though, Konami assisted in the development of Guitar Hero Arcade.

@@ShiningEternity What backdoor deal did Harmonix do with Konami behind the scenes? How wacky

Not only that, konami also went after in the groove (a DDR clone made by fans desperate of konami not bringing their latest games to the west) which had the help of both red octane and andamiro, and konami obviously won because in the groove was made at first to run on ddr machines. And then konami went for seconds by threatening SEGA for bringing pump it up to japan in 2015, which is funny because both pump it up and stepmaniax (in the groove's spiritual successor that uses classic DDR and itg music) are a great success everywhere but japan, because konami (and actually all other Japanese game companies) makes it impossible for the average arcade to import their latest games.

too late, they're too big now.

That's the thing, that one visual novel, is one of the most important series in visual novel industry, Tokimeki Memorial. And it's on brand with konami, of just making it a one long franchise. 45 Tokimeki memorial games, mains and spin-offs, starting from 1994 to 2021. They also made Love Plus btw. So, even though they don't "specialize" it, they made one of the most important and longest franchise in visual novel history.

Soul Edge was renamed to Soul Blade, wasn't it? Back before Soul Calibur 1 even came out. Also they snuck it in at least in arcades, since I remember playing a Soul Edge cabinet back in the 90's.

HEy DAn how are youu doing pal?

And SNES games.

@@DanJackson1977 and PS1 and PS2 games

Don't forgot the arcades

Growing up, Konami and Capcom were always head to with each other.

Konami used to actually make many different types of good games, but they slowly neglected everything.

Didn't you hear what this youtuber said at the end about the boycott "with little success"

@@Kaimax61 Sure, but I’m curious about public opinion in Japan.

"with little success"

The Duke Nukem guys?

Well, good luck. Even if it's not "Metal Gear Survive" levels of insult, I'll stick with the original. I just find those remakes _less_ creepy than their grainy, foggy, low-res originals.

@@Orpheusftw oh I completely agree. But I just feel like I have to play it.

yes i will!

@@thegamingmuse Awesome, can't wait!

@@thegamingmuse cant wait for Orphan!

Looks like a Banjo Kazooie sidescrolling concept sequence (neither of the two BK games on the GBA are sidescrollers.)

Dead IPs? the last game was 2021.

@@Kaimax61 Using one spinoff game to gauge the life of the IP is like saying Konami still uses Castlevania because Belmonts are DLC characters in Smash, Bomberman and Dead Cells. Actually, it is even more silly, because Girl's Side is divorced enough from the original games that if you removed the Tokimemo branding, no one would even think they are meant to be directly related products, especially since they do not even have the same target audience demographic. (Which, even if you think that keeps the IP alive, STILL says a lot about how loose Konami has become with it.)

@@Kaimax61 yeah and metal gear is still alive and well thanks to metal gear survive

And you're still going to give them more by purchasing the new sh releases like a drone kek Cope and seethe

@@Ordoabchao-x9k oml people actually say these things unironically

@@toceeno874 White nationalists are not exactly known for their social skills.

I was going to say they pulled a Fine Bros myself lol

It wasnt in the 80s and 90s. Their games were a big part of making the NES the hit it was.