In response to a rapidly changing market, video game giant Konami will close all three production divisions in a restructuring effort.
Konami will officially dissolve all three production divisions.
The digital entertainment company announced on its website that Konami would dissolve all production divisions “to respond to the fast-moving market around us” in an effort to restructure the company. As stated in the report, this includes Production Divisions 1, 2 and 3. This will occur on February 1, 2021.
The announcement also declared structural and personnel changes and included the appointments of Hideki Hayakawa as chief operating officer, Shoji Dewa as senior executive director and Koji Kobayashi as executive director. All personnel will assume their new functions in the company from February. Certain members of the dissolved production divisions will be moved to general production and product support, but no further information on these changes has been provided.
The video game giant, which celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2019, launched classic titles like Metal Gear, Castlevania and Silent Hill. The company recently relaunched selected titles from the Metal Gear and silent Hill series on the PC as well as a Konami collector series: Castlevania and Contra, also for PC. However, the company has been particularly absent from mainstream games in recent years and has killed many of its main franchises, routinely denying restarting the classic titles mentioned.
No further information on the company’s restructuring has been released so far.
Source: Siliconera, Konami
