Konami has revealed that, yep, it plans to continue to work on NFTs in the future. After companies like EA and Team17 backed off on NFT plans, Konami is full steam ahead on NFT creation, at least for now.
In the company's latest financial results breakdown, the subject of NFTs is hidden within their 'Digital Entertainment' outlook. After Konami mentions a few of its games and how they're performing, the company had this to say on NFTs:
We will also be selling Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) in an effort to preserve content that has been loved by our customers as commemorative art.
So, there you have it. While the company doesn't go into specifics on which games will get the NFT treatment in future, plans are in place.
Konami's actual video game output hasn't been exactly fruitful in recent years, and we wouldn't be surprised to see the company lean into the nostalgia of its IP when it comes to NFTs. Konami owns the likes of Metal Gear Solid, Silent Hill, Castlevania, Contra and more.
Do you think Konami will stick to its NFT plans? Let us know below.
[source img.konami.com, via twitter.com]
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If their sole aim here is to "preserve content", I'm sure I've got a spare USB stick they could borrow.
Hard to believe there was once a time when Konami was my favorite company
Preserve bank balances more likely. Hopefully the revolt against NFT's stay strong and the companies change tune on it.
Good ol konami, ignoring the fan's wants for the past decade or so.
"in an effort to preserve content that has been loved by our customers as commemorative art"
So while they have zero interest in actually preserving the actual content, in either quality remakes or sequels, they very much want to preserve the memory, nostaligia, and money making value of said content.
Konami is very much one company I'd love to see boughtout. They don't deserve the IPs, love from fans, or the money either.
These moral reservation against NFT will not work. If it can find its own market, and if this market be lucrative enough, it will come. And gaming industry, due to its digital nature, will be affected by it. All these nagging against NFT is pointlrss, just like the nagging of physical media fans against digital markets was futile.
When they talk about preserving content it makes me think, maybe the execs don’t actually know what NFTs are?
That would explain why they start to backtrack after a bit.
@Spaceman-Spiff and my axe!
Hahah. Konami really enjoy pissing off gamers, don't they? Oh well, it's not like they are relevant anymore.
What a shocker, the two gaming companies that have been dumped on the most for total mishandling of their IPs and retreading the same thing over and over, Konami and Ubisoft, are going hard on NFTs...
NFTs will be prevalent in gaming in the very near future. The outcries might scare a few away now but it will eventually breakthrough just like DLC, microtransactions, lootboxes, $70 games, etc.
I dont plan on ever purchasing an NFT but if someone else wants to, I dont really care.
They could make money by making games we want to play instead of trying to sell us digital art we likely don't want.
I fear NFTs are gong to be used as an industry politics cudgel in the upcoming years. Watch out for the grifters who are are against it, suddenly to launch their own. We've seen the same thing from MTXs and loot boxes.
Give them a week or maybe a month to do a U turn.
To preserve content... They.... How....I don't....
What we really need to know is if they're erotically violent NFTs, Konami?
Will Microsoft/Sony please buy these idiots soon and get us a proper new Metal Gear Solid game? Also, if Kojima wouldn’t mind just selling up as well, I wouldn’t mind a proper ending to MGS V.
Doesn’t surprise me that Konami is interested still in NFT’s. However, I think Konami is one company that gaming fans feel needs to be in an acquisition.
They're really putting the "con me" in "Konami" these days, ain't they?
... because Konami is the worst.
LOL. They keep pushing that crap.
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