Current Events > Konami still owns Castlevania right?

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so if konami owns it then maybe another castelvania game will never be made?

They literally just released a new compilation

How about a totally new game?

GranTurismo posted...

How about a totally new game?

whoa hold on there, let's not get crazy alright

I'd love a new one in the classic or SotN style

Bloodstained was the best Castlevania i've played in a while and that sucks.

Better yet, why havent they ported SoTN/Rondo to the Switch? Hell, SoTN was ported to the Android.

All they care about is using the IP for pachinko machines or leasing the rights to Netflix

dioxxys posted...

All they care about is using the IP for pachinko machines or leasing the rights to Netflix

Konami is doing everything with the Castlevania IP except for developing a new game.

Tyranthraxus posted...

They literally just released a new compilation

they did?

Killmonger posted...

Better yet, why havent they ported SoTN/Rondo to the Switch?

A very good question.

AceMos posted...

they did?

There's the Anniversary edition and the GBA collection on the consoles

Tyranthraxus posted...

They literally just released a new compilation

What compilation?

dameon_reaper posted...

There's the Anniversary edition and the GBA collection on the consoles

that was released 2 years ago

AceMos posted...

that was released 2 years ago

2 years is still pretty recent for me. The GBA is more recent but its still sorta new.

I got excited and thought they released the DS collection

"Literally just released" is not how I would describe a two year old release. I wouldn't say Resident Evil 8 literally just released.

dioxxys posted...

I got excited and thought they released the DS collection

This

it's in the video game hell of only being used for easy port/remaster money.

supervaan posted...

it's in the video game hell of only being used for easy port/remaster money.

alongside Metal Gear and Suikoden

Since Smash and Dead Cells could use it I wonder if we'll see Castlevania content in another unrelated game soon.

I believe the official excuse is that they ran out of centuries.

Dracula's castle is supposed to surface once every hundred years.

FortuneCookie posted...

I believe the official excuse is that they ran out of centuries.

Dracula's castle is supposed to surface once every hundred years.

the games have ignored that constantly

FortuneCookie posted...

I believe the official excuse is that they ran out of centuries.

Dracula's castle is supposed to surface once every hundred years.

They still have the 1999 story and they can make a game without Dracula cause they did it before but again: It's Konami were talking about.

lorddrakath1522 posted...

They still have the 1999 story and they can make a game without Dracula cause they did it before but again: It's Konami were talking about.

If they wanted to, they could pull a Zelda timeline. Or they could have Dracula resurface every 50 years with only mild continuity errors. It's an excuse to close up shop and sell pachinko machines.

Konami would rather go under or sell Konami brand vacuum cleaners than treat their employees with any respect. The reason the first game had fake movie credits was to offer that as an alternative to crediting the programmers.

Nosferatu_Zodd posted...

"Literally just released" is not how I would describe a two year old release. I wouldn't say Resident Evil 8 literally just released.

In konami time, that's literally just released.

dioxxys posted...

All they care about is using the IP for pachinko machines or leasing the rights to Netflix

are there any pachinko machines outside of japan? what are they anyway?

FortuneCookie posted...

If they wanted to, they could pull a Zelda timeline. Or they could have Dracula resurface every 50 years with only mild continuity errors..

He already shows up every 50 years in the last 200 years of the timeline (and that includes the Bram Stoker Dracula being part of the timeline).

In fact in that same period they officially put some of the games as not part of the official timeline such as Castlevania 64 and Circle of the Moon.

GranTurismo posted...

are there any pachinko machines outside of japan? what are they anyway?

If you've ever seen Plinko on The Price is Right, that's a simplified pachinko machine. Or the secret level in Mario Sunshine that you need to rocket into under the bridge in Delfino Plaza.

Basically, you launch a metal ball the same way you would in a pinball machine but it's vertical rather than horizontal. It goes to the top and begins falling down. You score points based on where it lands at the bottom.

It's mostly used for gambling. Cash gambling is illegal in Japan, but they get around it by having you win more balls. You can then trade the balls to the pachinko parlor for tokens that can be sold for cash at a different shop. The shop then sells the tokens back to the parlor for slightly more than what they paid.

Just reboot the whole damn thing then.

pegusus123456 posted...

If you've ever seen Plinko on The Price is Right, that's a simplified pachinko machine. Or the secret level in Mario Sunshine that you need to rocket into under the bridge in Delfino Plaza.

Basically, you launch a metal ball the same way you would in a pinball machine but it's vertical rather than horizontal. It goes to the top and begins falling down. You score points based on where it lands at the bottom.

It's mostly used for gambling. Cash gambling is illegal in Japan, but they get around it by having you win more balls. You can then trade the balls to the pachinko parlor for tokens that can be sold for cash at a different shop. The shop then sells the tokens back to the parlor for slightly more than what they paid.

so lotteries are illegal in japan, stuff like powerball