With my daily play of Metal Gear Solid V as I work slowly towards 100% completion (screw you multi-hour development time on weapons and gear!) and how Konami is done with AAA development (outside of Metal Gear Online they still have to release and PES'16), it got me thinking of what is the likelihood of Konami letting other companies utilize their properties? They are essentially holding their properties hostage, relegated to suffering as Pachinko and mobile titles, but is there a comparable instance in game development history where a company let another developer/publisher utilize their properties to create a game? Like if Platinum wanted to make Metal Gear Rising 2, and they found a way to fund it through another publisher, is this a small possibility? It has no risk for Konami and with how money focused they are, it would be pure profit for them if they just get money based off sales, could that entice the uber businessmen that rule Konami?
I actually just thought of a comparable thing maybe after bringing up Platinum, with Bayonetta 2. Platinum wanted to make it, Sega wasn't wanting to dive into that, so Nintendo pops in, offers to get it going on their system, helping with the funding, with I'm sure Sega getting some profit from it in some way. Am I right in thinking that? What if to get more hype going for Nintendo's NX, they go over to Konami and say "Hey, how about you let us make Metal Gear Rising 2 with Platinum again for the NX and maybe a new 2D Castlevania with another...Retro (or whoever)?"
All lofty thinking for sure and unlikely to happen I feel, but I felt the topic was interesting enough to discuss.
*EDIT*
Of course right after I post this, I find a new article that just got posted that says that Konami ISN'T abandoning consoles and franchises will continue, but this isn't super official at all, so the topic is still worthwhile enough to at least discuss should it come down to them actually leaving consoles behind or at least highly minimizing their console presence in favor of other methods.
http://www.destructoid.com/konami-rep-we-re-still-definitely-working-on-console-games--312143.phtml