Hi there,
Konami, a large video game publisher based in Tokyo, will publish
Microsoft's games on systems such as Nintendo 64, Sony PlayStation and
the Sega Dreamcast, Dow Jones News Service reported Tuesday. Microsoft,
meanwhile, will adapt Konami titles for the personal computer. The
first titles resulting from the deal will be announced this year.
The same happened to FF7, which was adapted by Eidos for the PC, right?
And what about the Resident Evil series? I only don't know which
Microsoft games there will be to port (a.f.a.i.k. they only made Flight
Simulator?).
Besides, Konami will have an easy time to convert to Dreamcast, since
it's Windows CE based. And doesn't Konami release Gremlin games already
in Japan (Actua Soccer)?
Funny, my favourite software company joining forces with my personal
worst software company (you may consider for yourself which is which :-)
). Hint: Linux rulez. OK, I think it's bad to see a good name such as
Konami linked with a dubious company like Microsoft (think Helloween
files and the Netscape/IE war).
Ed Fries, general manager of the Microsoft games business, said the
deal will help Microsoft develop new sources of revenue for the titles
already selling on the PC.
With other words: make more money and take over a new area of computer
entertainment as they did with the Operating Systems and they still try
to do with the Internet. Scary...
Tim Dunley, vice president of marketing at Konami of America in San
Mateo, Calif., said more of his company's games such as the
multimillion seller ``Metal Gear Solid'' are aimed at adult audiences,
making it more sensible to adapt the titles to the PC, which tends to
draw older players.
Poy Poy 2 *grin*
Both companies also noted that the alliance was a strategy to deal with
growing consolidation in the games business.
I agree, but I think Konami could have made wiser decision with an other
company. I think it's a far more better deal for Microsoft since most
modern PC games are too advanced for N64 or PSX (I don't know for DC)
and since Microsoft doesn't release games as regularly as Konami does,
M$ tends to get more money out of it with doing nothing but porting
Konami games. And since the DC and PC games can easily be ported, you
can guess there will be a lot of DC games from Konami in the future.
Also, and this is much more interesting for M$: if the popular Konami
games are available on PC, people won't buy a console but a PC, which
means the console market will be made smaller (in extremis!) and the PC
market will grow, which means: more profit for M$ and their Windows. And
in the end there will be only one system: a PC. Micro$ofts device: "If
you can't beat them, join them".
Grtz
Coen
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