The new, free-to-play eFootball, which was released on Thursday, has gone straight to the top of Steam 250’s ‘Hall of Shame’ of the 100 worst games ever to be available on Steam.Īt the time of writing, Steam users had given the game an overall rating of just 8%, seeing it overtake Flatout 3: Chaos and Destruction - which has a comparatively positive 15% rating - as the biggest flop in the platform’s history. eFootball 2022 goes straight to No 1 in Steam 'Hall of Shame' The thought of paying 69p every time Solid Snake needs to use his codec isn't a gaming future we want to entertain.EFootball 2022, the rebranded replacement for Konami’s long-running football sim Pro Evolution Soccer, has been given an immediate red card by users of the online gaming platform Steam. If Konami are intent on stepping back entirely from traditional development, hopefully it will at least consider licensing its properties to other creators. The deft stealth action gameplay of Metal Gear would be a very different experience with only a touchscreen for input, for instance. While the growth of mobile gaming is undeniable, it's a very different platform and experience to playing with a controller, or even on a handheld console such as PS Vita or Nintendo 3DS. Even those bigger IPs could be refocused as mobile products in future, with Hayakawa adding that 'we hope that our overseas games such as Metal Gear and Pro Evolution continue to do well, but we are always thinking about how to push our franchises onto mobile there too.'

While the new direction isn't necessarily the end of Konami as a triple-A publisher, Metal Gear Solid V is currently its only console game in development following the Silent Hills cancellation. The success of Power Pro especially has motivated us to actively push more of our popular series onto mobile than ever before.' 'We saw that even people who buy physical games are motivated to buy extra content. 'Following the pay-as-you-play model of games like Power Pro and Winning Eleven with additional content, our games must move from selling 'items' to selling things 'features', Hayakawa said. However, inside the country's borders, those titles and their brethren have been very successful, largely thanks to the microtransaction model. Its biggest spike has been from mobile versions of its Power Pro Baseball and Winning Eleven ( Pro Evolution Soccer in the west) franchises, which have little to no cache with smartphone or tablet users outside of Japan. Hayakawa's direction for Konami is also rather insular, focusing largely on its domestic fortunes rather than internationally.

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