Hideki Hayakawa, President of Konami Digital Entertainment, has labelled reboots of the Metal Gear, Castlevania, and Suikoden franchises as ‘important initiatives that serve as pillars of our business,’ indicating it’s far from done with these IPs going forward.
Speaking with Nikkei Gaming, Hayakawa-san commented:
We have a variety of titles in the pipeline, including the soccer game eFootball, baseball franchises such as eBaseball: PRO SPIRITS and Powerful Pro Baseball, Yu-Gi-Oh! TRADING CARD GAME, the mobile game Suikoden STAR LEAP, which opened pre-registration on July 1, 2026, and Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse, scheduled for release on October 15. Another key title is Rev. NOiR, a completely new IP announced in February. It is an RPG for game consoles that we plan to release globally. We have high expectations that players around the world will be very excited about it.
Reboots of existing IPs such as METAL GEAR, SILENT HILL, Castlevania, and Suikoden are important initiatives that serve as pillars of our business. At the same time, we have a strong desire at KONAMI to create entirely new genres and works.
In recent years Konami has been busy reviving some of its biggest IPs including Silent Hill, which is going strong off the back of Silent Hill 2 Remake and Silent Hill f. Metal Gear Solid meanwhile saw a revival with Metal Gear Solid Delta Snake Eater, while Castlevania is receiving a new entry with Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse.
It remains to be seen at this point if Konami is going to work on an all-new Metal Gear Solid title in the future, but we wouldn’t rule it out at this point.
[Source – MP1st]