Fans Beg Sony To Buy Konami After Microsoft's Bethesda Deal
Microsoft's massive $7.5 billion acquisition of Bethesda has undoubtedly shaken the gaming industry and has some fans dreaming of other potential massive acquisitions.
Konami, the publishing company behind the Metal Gear and Silent Hill series, trended on Twitter today as gamers took the Bethesda/Microsoft news as hope that Sony could do something similar and gain control of some beloved but recently-maligned IPs held by the company.
Konami has fallen from gamers' good graces in recent years due to some frustrating business decisions, including a high-profile breakup from video game auteur Hideo Kojima, right as he appeared about to revive Silent Hill with a title called Silent Hills, and then scrubbed the game's incredible demo P.T. from stores everywhere.
It's unclear if anything will come from the fan outcry for such a massive business acquisition, but fans can certainly dream.
.@PlayStation plz respond to the Bethesda purchase by buying Konami.Set the IP free. End our torment.
— Skill Up (@SkillUpYT) September 21, 2020
just like konami did pic.twitter.com/08ooiuOraL
— Lulu🌈🍔🎏 (@luulubuu) September 17, 2020
Can someone please just buy Konami and rescue their IP from pachinko hell
— merritt k (@merrittk) September 21, 2020
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Victreebong
This has to be the dumbest thing we’ve ever asked for.
I would infinitely rather have Konami owned by Nintendo than Sony. It’s depressing enough that Konami’s entire lineup isn’t on the Switch, and I’m tired of pretending it’s not.
Noside
Can you imganie Kojima owning the Metal Gear franchise…… sigh
Imre
Inject a new Airforce Delta (with Tsukasa Jun) into my veins
Hot Sauce
Lmao, i think it would be more likely that Konami ends up buying Sony than the other way around at this point.
Arn
Konami can buy Sony like five times and would make all PS5 manufactured so far into pachinko machines just for good measure.
Sony is poor, they made 8bil for the entire of last year while MS made 45bil only on the first quarter of this year.
PYRO
>Sony
>Getting Konami
>And sharing their games
I don't know what would be funnier. The shitfit caused by making the next Metal Gear PS5 only or the shitfit if they made Metal Gear multiplatform like with Horizon.
Captain L
I'll say the same thing I always said when people, years ago, never shut up about begging Nintendo to buy Mega Man. "It's a great idea! After all, we all know Sony doesn't already have IPs that they've ignored for longer than Konami's ignored Silent Hill or Metal Gear."
Spärdic Doctrine
People thinking $50 billion Sony is somehow adequate to $1 trillion Microsoft won't cease to amaze me.
Paranoid_Android
Just imagine if they bought Konami and forced them to (temporarily) hire Kojima
Metal Gear Solid V: Complete Edition
Include mission 51
A Hideo Kojima game
Only for PS5
tman105
I would sell all your souls for a new Suikoden game. Hell, i would sell all your souls for a steam rerelease of all the past suikoden games.
Well, i mean, i would sell all your souls for half a meatball sub, but the point is these are things i want.