If you happen to haven’t been paying consideration over the previous couple of years, Konami has made a significant comeback in gaming with new releases like Silent Hill, Metal Gear Solid, and shortly Castlevania. If you happen to thought they have been planning on slowing down anytime quickly, properly, guess once more, because it seems to be like they’ve some massive plans for a few of their long-dormant gaming franchises.
We aren’t simply speaking about HD collections, both, because it appears Konami is planning to reboot main IPs, with the highlights being Steel Gear, Castlevania, and Suikoden.
Konami Going All In
In a latest interview (by way of Nikkei Gaming), Konami Digital Leisure’s president Hideki Hayakawa spoke about their upcoming pipeline, which incorporates the newly introduced Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse and Rev. Noir, slated to launch within the coming months. However what’s catching many eyes is his remark about different franchises: Steel Gear, Castlevania, Suikoden, and Silent Hill.
“Now we have a wide range of titles within the pipeline, together with the soccer recreation eFootball, baseball franchises similar to eBaseball: PRO SPIRITS and Highly effective Professional Baseball, Yu-Gi-Oh! TRADING CARD GAME, the cell recreation Suikoden STAR LEAP, which opened pre-registration on July 1, 2026, and Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse, scheduled for launch on October 15. One other key title is Rev. NOiR, a totally new IP introduced in February. It’s an RPG for recreation consoles that we plan to launch globally. Now we have excessive expectations that gamers all over the world might be very enthusiastic about it.
Reboots of present IPs similar to METAL GEAR, SILENT HILL, Castlevania, and Suikoden are essential initiatives that function pillars of our enterprise. On the identical time, we have now a robust need at KONAMI to create solely new genres and works.”
Whether or not he’s referring to Steel Gear Strong Delta as a “reboot” isn’t solely clear, however on the very least, it reinforces that Konami isn’t executed with Steel Gear, together with the opposite talked about franchise. Silent Hill, after all, noticed Silent Hill f and shortly Townfall, that are just about revivals of the collection. Right here’s hoping we see some new installments within the Steel Gear franchise, and Suikoden (non-mobile).
With that mentioned, what do you assume? Do you need to see Konami reboot these franchises solely, with new takes, or would you reasonably see extra remakes? I do know I’m itching for a remake of Steel Gear 1 and a couple of (not the Strong collection). For now, although, Steel Gear Strong followers could have the Grasp Assortment Vol 2 to sit up for, which releases this week. You may learn our review now to see if Konami has delivered a worthwhile remaster.
Keep linked to MP1st and the newest information by following us on Bluesky, X, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, and Google News.