Konami Teases Future Plans to Outsource Its IPs to Other Developers - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 June 2021 / 1,806 Views
Konami partnered with indie studio GuruGuru to develop GetsuFumaDen: Undying Moon, which recently launched in Steam Early Access.
Konami producer Shin Muratoin an interview with JPGames discussed working with GuruGuru and teased they have similar plans to bring back other dormant IPs.
"We are continually inspired by various indie titles, and how they innovate and produce exciting games," Murato said. "We felt that GetsuFumaDen would be an interesting IP to bring back to follow this indie approach, and so we decided to contact GuruGuru as we know the team well.
"They had been exploring new approaches for graphical design and thought they would be a great fit for this IP. It also helped that there were fans of the original GetsuFumaDen game within the GuruGuru team. In terms of other collaborations, please wait for future projects like this!"
There have been reports Konami is looking to license out some of its biggest IPs, Metal Gear Solid and Castlevania.
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The rumors of Sony getting the deal to make Silent Hill and MGS are years old already, so let's see what comes out of this new info.
Yea Im sure both Sony and MS have approached them for this as well.
Everyone wants someone to revive the corpse of PT. And even if it's true, unless they can get the original team back on track, I have no expectations for it.
A Silent Hill with today's tech would be dope.
Just make sure that a competent studio works on Suikoden!
One of my favourite underutilizes franchises. But, similar to Resident Evil and Milano, my interest is limited without involvement of Murayama.
Just sell them, other publishers will do better work with them anyway.
I prefer them licensing them, actually. Too many publishers end up having so many IPs that many end up abandoned. Better let people who actually want to work with them access to the licenses.
I worry for the future of Castlevania. I don't know if I can stomach another soulless cinematic reboot.
Yep, if they are smart they will keep a good oversight to make sure the IP values instead of losing value.
