Konami and their games...

[kamikazekeeg]

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

[gf78]

I think Konami has gone full-retard.  They won't say boo about whether they are leaving console development or not.  Then a senior officer leaves and says they are abandoning console development.

Now, a service rep replying to an open ticket says they aren't leaving console development. 

At this point, who knows?  But with all the mounting evidence such as Kojima Productions being folded, Kojima himself leaving, no announced titles after MGSV and the CEO stating they would be putting mobile game development first....I have to lean on Konami abandoning the traditional console/PC gaming market.  Not to mention they tried to completely obliterate the P.T. demo from existence.

I don't think the service rep has a clue.  They are someone paid to resolve end-user issues.  It would be like asking a service rep from AT&T if they knew that they were merging with DirecTV.  They don't have a damn clue.

As for the topic on-hand, Konami just doesn't seem to care.  I doubt they would license their games out for some else to make.  They would rather make mobile games "to preserve the franchise's integrity" and slap Castlevania on a semi-pornographic pachinko machine.  Gotta stay classy after all.