According to Famitsu, coming via Gamefront, Konami have canceled development of:

Gradius

Coded Arms: Assault

Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu (baseball game that' s big in Japan)

Unidentified new action title

Unidentified new RPG

Now, Coded Arms has already been rumoured to have been canceled. Gradius being canceled would only be bad for people like myself and ofcourse Terry, and i doubt anybody here would play Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu anyway. The action title and RPG were announced projects but we' ve never heard any details about them.

If it' s true then it sucks and it could be an indication of problems. Not technical problems or anything, i' m just wondering whether Microsoft have some involvement. Konami isn' t exactly a huge company and i wouldn' t put it past Microsoft to buy them. Note that two Wii games are also rumored to have been canceled; an action game and an RPG.

With IP' s like Gradius, Pro Evolution, Metal Gear Solid, Dance Dance Revolution and Silent Hill, Konami is a developer Sony can' t afford to lose. Lets hope this is untrue or that there' s a good reason for it.

Gradius or grandia,one of those i played on the dreamcast,the 2nd game,it was great.

Not cool! More proof that it is very expensive to produce games for the PS3. Not that I care for any one of those though.

Hahaha, when i read " Not Cool!" i heard Patrick Swayze' s voice in my head...

I have pretty strong gut feeling MS will either be buying Capcom or Konami this generation. If MS buys Capcom Sony will almost assuredly pick up Konami. Not so sure about the other way around though.

I think this is the rigth path, they should focus on the great frinchises, when i first hear about Coded Arms in the PS3 i was like WTF??? who are u selling that to??? there are so meny Coded Arms fans to sell over 600 000 copys of the game??? Konami should focus on Silent Hill, Castlevania and a few others, if they try to sell new IP´s in an expensive console and with a short installed base now, every gameits gonna flop and the konami-SONY retaionship would be hurt.

have pretty strong gut feeling MS will either be buying Capcom or Konami this generation. If MS buys Capcom Sony will almost assuredly pick up Konami. Not so sure about the other way around though.

Capcom doesn' t and probably can' t be bought they are probably the third largest developer/publisher behind EA and Nintendo. However Capcom will probably stick with the 360 since right now that is the only console that has proven to them there is profit.

It could even be both, seeing as Konami aren' t going to bring out a pro evo for the PS3 and Dead rising still is (As far as I am aware) a 360 exclusive, Sony seem to be losing face with most of the software houses at the moment.

Konami isn' t exactly a huge company and i wouldn' t put it past Microsoft to buy them.

...what' s the difference between Halo 1 and Halo 2 ?


' Microsoft game-studios' ...[:' (]

...what' s the difference between Halo 1 and Halo 2 ?


' Microsoft game-studios' ...

There actually is a few minor differences...

1.) Halo 2' s campaign sucked
2.) On Halo 1 Blood Gulch was awesome, but Coagulation sucks on halo 2
3.) Halo 1 actually required skill to use sniper and rocket, halo 2 doesn' t
4.)Halo 1' s Shot gun and pistol was practically unstoppable (unless they were using one too), while on halo 2 they both sucked
5.)Ofc Halo 2 has live play
6.) Halo 1 had better graphics on certain details such as the grass and characters(if you look at it the spartans in multiplayer often have different speeds, heights, weights )

According to Famitsu, coming via Gamefront, Konami have canceled development of:

# Gradius

SCREAMS!!!!! AHH Noooooooo!!
Just Make Gradius 6 for the PSP, problem solved Konami!!!

Unidentified new RPG

I can only hope that it wasn' t a new Suikoden game.

With IP' s like Gradius, Pro Evolution, Metal Gear Solid, Dance Dance Revolution and Silent Hill, Konami is a developer Sony can' t afford to lose

you forgot zone of the ender and more importantly, CASTLEVANIA. oooh man and suikoden too.

i don' t think konami could be bought by microsoft, but i' m really surprised that coded arms get canceled, the game looked nice... to get 5 titles canceled at once , and some others from other publishers, those are reallly bad signe for sony... i wonder what' s going on

ORIGINAL: Terry Bogard
SCREAMS!!!!! AHH Noooooooo!!
Just Make Gradius 6 for the PSP, problem solved Konami!!!

I know! It shouldn' t be on the PSP, though. But the Game Gear might be nice.

Games may not have been cancelled afterall...

MS is not buying Capcom

http://www.gamespot.com/news/show_blog_entry.php?topic_id=25304105&sid=6164175&tag=latestnews;title;0

..the thought of Microsoft buying any major Japanese studio, makes me feel severely unwell....

...thank god money can' t buy kinship or taste...

...thank god money can' t buy kinship or taste...

Silly Bishonen, money can buy anything

not everything...

not everything...

Yes... anything