Konami Moving Forward With NFT Plans
Konami isn't about to let NFTs go, as per the company's latest official financial report. Whereas most game publishers and developers are succumbing to critique from the community and doing away with whatever NFT-related business ideas they may have had, Konami seems to be going the opposite direction instead.
According to the document in question, Konami is intent on proceeding with its plans to lean into the ongoing NFT craze even further. Though the company is yet to announce any specific plans to leverage the technology, the report makes note of using it to offer «commemorative art» that's based on Konami's classic intellectual properties.
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The technology itself is only given a small mention as part of Konami's «Outlook for the Fiscal Year Ending March 31, 2022,» but the decision to mint and sell NFTs seems to have already been made, as the document specifies that Konami will make an «effort to preserve content that has been loved by [their] customers as commemorative art.» A plan that seems to be a direct follow-up to the Konami Memorial NFT Collection from the start of the year.
As of early 2022, NFTs aren't well-received by the gaming communities. The outcries are so loud that even people and companies that had initially supported NFTs have backed down from doing so, as the example of Troy Baker reversing his stance on NFTs plainly shows. As Konami's report shows, however, not everyone particularly cares about what the community might think.
Still, gaming companies seem to be somewhat evenly split on the topic of NFTs. Whereas Konami seems to have embraced the idea for the time being, if its financial report is anything to go by, other studios
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