Konami Is The Only Publisher Truly Respecting Games Preservation

The only publisher that is consistently doing a phenomenal job with game preservation today is none other than Konami.

[closed_account]

Yea, for all the hate that Konami got in the post-Kojima departure.... I give them major props for their efforts in the retro game department! I love their Retro collections and have gladly bought all of them.

See, the way Konami has approached it has eliminated the need for Roms. I'll gladly pay for them if they are made available to us. It sweetens the deal when they add things like concept art & alternate international versions in the package.

*I'm only talking about retro from the 80's/90's, as it was my childhood.

[MrBaskerville]

I agree, they've done a good job with Castlevania, still would be nice with 2-3 more collections. Ds games, Chronicles and ps2/n64 games would be nice.

Soon we'll get Suikoden 1-2 and all off Metal Gear. They could do more, but so far they've done more than most. Which is surprising.

But as some mentioned, Capcom does it better. Ms, Square and Nintendo also deserves a mention, they've been good at making a wide variety of stuff available.

[Flawlessmic]

What lol, no just no.

I haven't been able to purchase any of the metal gear games outside of 5 for years now even though there was a hd version already made.

They are literally just selling us the same hd content that was made for ps3 basically, and took if off the market for no good reason at all, and now re packaging it with some extra stuff but no upgrades at all!!

Where can I buy silent Hill 1-4? Ohh that's right, I cant

I mean I love Konami games but this is the last thing I'd give them credit for.

[Sephiroushin]

On ebay you can

[Terry_B]

The article is about the already RELEASED Konami Classic game Collections and compares them with collections by other companies.

[GhostScholar]

I was thinking the same thing.

[MrBaskerville]

I'm thinking that Silent Hill 1-4 might be realistic at some point. The way things are going they might even remember 0 and Shattered Memories.

But so far they've focused most on Castlevania.

[shadowknight203]

Your a funny dude. Your like HUH, "out of all the things, this is what u praise them for?!"

Anyway, valid arguments. Love the read.

[bangoskank]

LOL!! This is a joke, right. The only thing Konami is interested in preserving is its revenue from pachinko machines.

[Christopher]

So, we're just going to completely ignore Capcom collections and remakes?

[closed_account]

Yea, they went into it in the article, but it doesn't seem it was up to their standard. Their complaints seem to revolve around more recent "retro" from ps2 era forward.

I'm more concerned with earlier retro, so I love Capcom's collections. The Mega Man collections are so good, w plentiful concept art, music player, database.

The Contra collection is great. the arcade cabinet collections are great.

[Christopher]

I guess if we choose to ignore anything we want we can make any claim we want. There are almost 100 Capcom games being preserved across all their collections let alone keeping the more popular street fighter games playable on current generation hardware via BC. Then remaking past games to take advantage of new hardware instead of just sitting on them. It's a lot.

[closed_account]

lol I accidentally typed Contra here for Capcom... got my wires cross. XD

I liked the Beat'em'Up Collection, although I would have liked to see the SNES version of Final Fight, along w FF2 and 3.

I also liked the Fight Collection.

[shinoff2183]

Yes cause they are playing with me and not releasing anything breath of fire related or even remasters. I mean come on its my favorite series from them.

[Christopher]

Okay, this is a valid complaint. I also agree with your sentiment.

[TheEnigma313]

lol

[Terry_B]

Yup..somehow their Retro Collections are good. However, Capcom also did an excellent Job. Sega all in all as well and Atari with their recent Retro Collection too.

[ANIALATOR136]

Let's wait and see. The remasters could be travesties

[MIDGETonSTILTS17]

FucKonami.

[rayford15]

Really??? I still can’t buy MGS 4 many moons later…

[FallenAngel1984]

All Konami can do nowadays are remasters and remakes

Aside from Super Bomberman R 2 I can’t think of any new game from them worth getting excited over

[Puty]

Oh yeah. Like the source code for SH2 and SH3 which they lost @____@. What a joke of a company.

[Sgt_Slaughter]

1) This is genuinely baffling that they think this is accurate on any level
2) Why does N4G allow websites to submit their own articles for approval?

[OhReginald]

I think they are trying to fix their reputation

[franwex]

Ok. How come I cannot download mgs2 and MGS3? You know, games that I already paid for?

[KwietStorm_BLM]

I guess Capcom and Sega are irrelevant. If you told me this article came from thegamer.com I'd believe you.

[PunksOnN4G]

what these aint even decent remasters they are ports sooo lazy tey cant even get them to work with keyboard and mouse day 1

[Knightofelemia]

I'll believe it when I see it as far as I am concerned as a gamer Konami turned their back on the gaming world. They are more focused on pachinko machines. And only releasing of older games they do is anniversary packs like with Contra and Castlevania. When SH2 comes out I am going to fully look over that game before I buy it. Konami has been known to farm out some titles and well then tend to suck.

[mastershredder]

Your example is Konami’s old arcade collections, meanwhile all the OG console publishers have an arcade collection, disc collection/dl collection, or have a mini console and/or ports to various licensed commercial devices … wtf.

[MadLad]

They didn't even respect videogames, themselves, just a year or two ago. Just saying.
Is this a paid fluff piece? Konami has yet to actually prove anything to gamers. All we have is news pieces letting us know content is coming down the pipeline.