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We sincerely hope that you haven't used up all of your hate on Konami over the last couple of months, because we've got a corker for you this afternoon. Translated by NeoGAF member HGH, the Japanese company's new CEO reckons that "mobile is where the future of gaming lies". Surely you can see where this is going?

"Our main platform will be mobiles", Hayakawa told Nikkei Trendy Net, adding that Konami will follow "the pay-as-you-play model". We can already hear the screams from some of you reading this, but the despair's probably about to get a whole lot worse. The CEO then goes on to say that "we hope that our overseas games such as Metal Gear Solid V and Winning Eleven (Pro Evolution Soccer) continue to do well, but we are always thinking about how to push our franchises onto mobile there too."

Of course, mobile gaming is a massive deal in Japan, where its impressive popularity has done a lot to damage the console gaming industry as a whole. As such, it at least makes some sense for Konami to focus its future efforts on mobile platforms, but there's no doubt that Western gamers will find this news tough to swallow - ourselves included.

[source jin115.com, via neogaf.com]