Wow, a flame war in my little thread? Sheesh. Fact is, Konami\'s president says 70% for PSX/PS2 and lots of support for the GBA, which has already shown as soon as you look at the launch lineup for it\'s Japanese release. I\'d post all the titles, but I\'m sure Jumpman can handle that much more efficiently then I could. I kinda dont feel like swimming in the ign.handhelds archives today anyways. As for the 10 game thing, here\'s a quote from the president of Konami:
Konami is less sure about the X-box. Kitaue believes that it will gain a solid market share in the U.S., but questioned how profitable the machine will be for Microsoft.
"Games for Xbox don\'t figure much in our plans for next year\'\' to March 2002, he said. Devoting resources to game development for the new console is "risky, as the company has not shown us a clear business strategy,\'\' Kitaue told Bloomberg news.
Last September, Konami said it plans to develop more than 10 X-box games a year, but Konami appears to share some of the skepticism other Japanese developers have with the X-box.
Last September they had PLANNED to develop 10 games per year, yet releasing them is a different story. When these games see the light of day is still unknown at this time. I\'m not saying they\'ll never be released or that they\'ll be canceled, I\'m just saying that Konami has quite a few things to consider when it comes to releasing their titles. Their BeMani series is VERY popular in Japan, but their analysts, which reside within the company and do not come from a 3rd party source, predict the X-Box to sell well in America, but rather scarcely in Japan and when Konami considers that factor into its franchise series and its target demographic and sales, you can understand their concern with the decisions of MS concerning their consoles release. BeMani is popular in the arcades and home consoles in Japan and if MS won\'t back them as heavily in Japan, then who will Konami turn to? That\'s right, the company they are dedicating 70% of their manpower to.
Look, this is not to bash MS, but from all accounts, the American people are certainly going to get the best end of the deal, along with American developers. EA is going to bank off of it for sure and I think this generation will profit them moreso then any other company, but when it comes to Japanese based developers and European developers, they\'re getting the shaft and so far, Sony is the main player to turn to with those factors taken into consideration. If you want a successful console, you have to appeal to all demographics and MS just isn\'t doing it when you consider delays in Europe and wavering Japanese 3rd party support.
