The Metal Gear series was once more popular than Resident Evil and even Tomb Raider.
Resident Evil series sold 24 million copies by 2008.
Tomb Raider series sold 38 million copies by 2008.
Metal Gear series sold 57.7 million copies by 2010. I could not find the 2008 or 2009 numbers.
Konami's poor decisions led to the series dying out. They should have kept making new games after Hideo Kojima's separation. Remakes and remasters (generous term for ports of the old HD Collection) don't excite players like something completely new.
Solid Snake and Big Boss are done, but they could have easily kept up the momentum with a new character. Resident Evil continued to grow without its most popular character, Leon. A new protagonist and villains in the future would have finally freed the Metal Gear series from the retcons that became harder to stomach as the prequels went on, including technology that comically moved ahead of what Solid Snake faced and used later. No longer stuck in the 1970s and '80s, the games could have explored current day technology and politics in the way MGS and MGS2 did.
I'm not gonna defend Silent Hill f, but it shows at least that Konami is still willing to make big original productions. All the fans talk about is which game should be remade next, apparently lacking the imagination to see beyond. The series won't recover with remakes. It's far too late to catch up to Resident Evil and Tomb Raider, but it's depressing that they won't even try to revive it, because the concept is still fun and Metal Gear would fill an untapped market. Every other game now has dumbed down, simplistic stealth with myopic enemies who hardly investigate and instantly forget. There is no game that specializes in stealth-action anymore.
Resident Evil series sold 24 million copies by 2008.
Tomb Raider series sold 38 million copies by 2008.
Metal Gear series sold 57.7 million copies by 2010. I could not find the 2008 or 2009 numbers.
Konami's poor decisions led to the series dying out. They should have kept making new games after Hideo Kojima's separation. Remakes and remasters (generous term for ports of the old HD Collection) don't excite players like something completely new.
Solid Snake and Big Boss are done, but they could have easily kept up the momentum with a new character. Resident Evil continued to grow without its most popular character, Leon. A new protagonist and villains in the future would have finally freed the Metal Gear series from the retcons that became harder to stomach as the prequels went on, including technology that comically moved ahead of what Solid Snake faced and used later. No longer stuck in the 1970s and '80s, the games could have explored current day technology and politics in the way MGS and MGS2 did.
I'm not gonna defend Silent Hill f, but it shows at least that Konami is still willing to make big original productions. All the fans talk about is which game should be remade next, apparently lacking the imagination to see beyond. The series won't recover with remakes. It's far too late to catch up to Resident Evil and Tomb Raider, but it's depressing that they won't even try to revive it, because the concept is still fun and Metal Gear would fill an untapped market. Every other game now has dumbed down, simplistic stealth with myopic enemies who hardly investigate and instantly forget. There is no game that specializes in stealth-action anymore.
