Well, I think Konami, as a company, just doesn't need things like Castlevania, Contra and Silent Hill anymore.
Here in Japan, these series have never been among the most popular IPs, however they own the rights to Yu-Gi-Oh! and the Nippon Professional Baseball Organization (NPB) which are two HUGE franchises around here. Apart from that, most people in the West may not realize how big the Pachinko business is. You can find them anywhere and, even if you go to a town or village so small that it doesn't even have bus lines, you will certainly see one or two Pachinko parlors around. And finally, Konami owns the (by far) largest chain of fitness clubs in Japan, to the point that, "Konami" became synonymous to the term "gym".
I'm serious when I say that, around here, people don't even remember that Konami is a software development company and, asking someone if they know about Konami's video games is always as obscure as asking them if they know what was Nintendo's business before the Famicom or what was Sega's console before the Mega Drive (unless you are talking about Yu-Gi-Oh! or baseball games).
