Konami Terminating Super Bomberman R Online, Will Move Forward With "New Projects"

Welp, yet another blow to Bomberman fans. Kinda was expecting it though

Oh yeah, that was certainly one of the games of all time

Wow, that was super fast. The game ended after only a year? Jeez...

Well, totally didn’t see that coming.

That didn’t last long, just around for only a year.

I suppose the original version was always going to be better.

It felt like the loading times were longer than the actual gameplay. I appreciate that it had crossplay and wish more games would do include it at launch.

barely even a year!

Konami should release Dance Dance Revolution on modern consoles instead.

Well, I'm glad I have my copy of Super Bomberman R. On a physical card. I can play that forever.

I feel a bit sad, had a bit of fun with this one on both Switch and PC, even if I wasn't the greatest player. Last time I checked the game was to look in the in-game shop, I remember getting 500 coins via a promotion they had sometime after launch.

Wow, that's unfortunate, but I guess not entirely surprising. I definitely would've played more, but the time it took to get into matches just took longer than I would've liked...

I do like the sound of them at least trying to keep the IP alive with new projects, though. I personally wasnt crazy about Bomberman being hard tied to a supporting cast of one-note archetypes, so hopefully they'll scale that aspect back and flesh out the few characters he does interact with.

(Also, more Louie representation, please and thanks!)

I kind of kept meaning to check it out but never did.

Ironically, this game didn't blow up.

Hey at least they're confirming new games. Bombermans alive!

R wasn't great but it revived the series, sold a million copies and obviously new games are coming.

@MasterGraveheart It's not the same game. They will continue to sell Super Bomberman R. Super Bomberman R Online is very different.

As a huge Bomberman fan myself from back in the day (and have personally enjoyed Super Bomberman R since launch), I didn't really see a future for Super Bomberman R Online at all, especially since the Live Service model it was trying to get across to the players just wasn't doing much justice for the series. The original Super Bomberman R admittedly launched barebones, but it still managed to hit the million-seller marker a while after and even then, much of Super Bomberman R Online's new content (Louies, to name one of them) could've easily been added to the original Super Bomberman R.

Either way, hopefully one of those "new projects" will at least encompass in a (sizeable) Bomberman Collection. Bomberman, in my opinion, needs to return in a better light and it still pains me that even after all of the fond history the series had with Nintendo that the White Bomber was relegated to being an Assist Trophy, Spirit, and Mii Costume instead of a playable character in Super Smash Bros Ultimate (No, people. Bomberman has used Bomber Transformations in Bomberman Hero, Elemental Bombs in Bomberman 64: The Second Attack!, and Charabons in Bomberman Generations. He has a lot to pull together to make a decent moveset, which says a lot compared to Sonic with three spin dashes, in my opinion).

I liked it for what it was but haven't played it since it came out. Terrible shame this is happening though since this was actually my first ever Bomberman game. Hopefully they'll make an entirely new one in the future? Doubtful given Konami but you never know.

@Deltarogue It was definitely a time.

Focus on Pro Evo.

Well back to normal R. Wish I didn't blow 10 bucks on the pass. I hope a collection of the classics comes someday.

Another reminder to never pay money for F2P games.
One day, they will simply vanish into nothingness, taking your money with them.

Whaaaaaat 😢. I loved that game. It felt just like playing Bomberman in my childhood with friends. Aww man this sucks

Great, even Switch doesn't completely immunize freemiums against the recent "infant mortality" syndrome.🙄 Galak-Z Variant S (another title technically competing with a meatier retail incarnation of itself) apparently sank last year, too - although it and the earlier discontinued Dawn of the Breakers at least made it well over two years. This one feels more in the league with mobile short-livers like Crestoria/Luminaria or the pseudoglobal versions of MagiReco and Symphogear XDU.

Oh no!!! Preserve it for the future people...

I played it once not long after it came out with a streamer i regularly watch, never felt the urge to pick it up again afterwards neither did the streamer

@TryToBeHopeful Kind of, which is why most cinemas are on the brink of going bust.
In the age of 70+ inch 4K TV's, 8.1 Surround sound systems and the ability to buy a physical movie for less than a cinema ticket, yes, why pay for "the experience" when the long term investment is simply superior in pretty much every way.

So can i still play my physical copy of the game online after december?

Give us a Bomberman Generations sequel!

Damn, didn't see this coming. This was one of only a handful of online survival games that I was actually able to get good at. I'll miss the rush of beating others with the most powerful bombs. R.I.P. SBRO and F you to the Bomb spaming white mains.

I've never got round to playing it. They should just do a Bomberman collection with added online stuff.

Barely played this on the PS4 or Switch; just didn't grab me.

Bring back the best Bomberman - Ultra from the PS3!

Going the way of Mario 35 I see

@TryToBeHopeful More often than not, we're talking about more than 8 bucks though.
Plenty of people sink hundreds, if not thousands into F2P games that one day just vanish.
I'm not talking about Bomberman specifically, but the whole service model.
It's a considerable time and money investment that can (and will) go up in smoke from one day to the next.

@link3710 Nope. 2 years.

It were exclusive on Stadia at first.
I have it installed on PC, Switch, Xbox One and PS4, and i also have it on Stadia.
In fact i played it only on Stadia back when it were exclusive.

@sanderson72 I've heard Sega Saturn Bomberman is the best one!

@TryToBeHopeful Yeh the original 2017 release. I didn't realise they were separate things. I thought maybe the online version was just a lower key release of it they were putting out as free to play.

"Konami make a good decision" challenge (100% impossible)

@Ventilator Yeah, but being on Stadia is basically the same as not being available shrugs.

Honestly I would feel super slighted if I had actually invested in the Battle Pass or paid for any content related to this game… shutting down after a year? Shoddy for the consumer. But seeing as I only played for the freeski… I’m not in that boat.

This game was fun for what it was though. I actually played it a lot for a time period, more than I thought I would. Sure it had load times that were a little too long, but it actually supplemented the main game quite well for online multiplayer since the online community in that game was really barren from my experience trying to find a match in Super BomberMan R proper.

C'mon guys you can still play online with the regular Super Bomberman R. Not sure what the point of the live version was anyways, the fact that Konami didn't know how to distinguish between the two was the main reason nobody gives a crap about Super Bomberman R Online. Why not called it Bomberman Online or Bomberman World Online? Calling it the same as the launch title confused players and those who bought the launch version ain't gonna bother with the live version especially when it's the same name.

Any big differences between this one and the original retail version?

Give us Wario Blast 2.

I just want a new Bomberman with an adventure mode like either of the 64 games or Hero

@link3710 Stadia had more players than Switch ever had.
The game were too old when it came to Switch.

@Ventilator And that affects my point how? You can't own a game on Stadia, plain and simple.

@link3710

You can't own a live service game anyway, so what is your point here?

These kind of games actually fits very well to a service like Stadia.

The game was free to play on Stadia. You only needed a Google account and then you could play it instantly everywhere you wanted, if you had decent internet. Witch is required for a live service online game anyway.

No waiting for download and install. Just click and play

@Ventilator I believe the reason Stadia got more players in that than Switch is cause the majority of Switch players are too busy playing the real version and not that fake ass one that is gonna be gone in the next few months. Wouldn't surprise me if Stadia is gone too after their awful cloud streaming service they kept messing up. For a company that wants to be the Netflix of videogames they couldn't even follow the same basic procedure as Netflix. You're suppose to stream games, not buy em. A monthly subscription should be all you need. Netflix doesn't even had a digital store for you to purchase movies so why do Stadia needed a digital store to buy a videogame stream anyways? This is why everyone says Stadia failed.

@Serpenterror
Stadia and Google never said they wanted to be the Netflix of gaming. That was the general media that said that.

Stadia's problem has never been their business model, but only the lack of content on the service.

Stadia has a total free tier, were you need to buy every game. And then they have a subscription tier called Stadia Pro were you get access to a library of games and new games every month.

Stadia Pro is similar to Netlfix and GamePass, but it just doesn't offer enough of exiting content compared to GamePass. Content is the problem here.

GamePass does also not give you access to all the games on the Xbox Store. Not every publisher wants all their games to be part of a subscription service.

On Stadia you could get access to a lot of games with the Stadia Pro subscription, and then buy games were the publisher simply did not want to be part of a subscription. But Stadia Pro just didn't offer enough compared to GamePass.

@link3710 You don't own any digital game you buy. When store, DRM or server is down.. Purchase lost.

You don't own Control, Hitman 3 etc. on switch either.
60$ for each cloud game and they have way more input lag than Stadia versions on top of terrible picture quality and resolution on Switch vs Stadia.

@dres Nice to see someone who actually know what Stadia is. A rarity these days.
It's true that Stadia never were intended to be Game Pass. In fact Stadia is still misunderstood in 2022, I knew what Stadia were from the beginning. It's like nearly everyone got it wrong.
Stadia 1080p/60 have no monthly paid sub.
I had some trials there, so i have 10's of games there and i own 2 premium kits.
F2P Games were always 100% free for everyone on Stadia at 1080p. Destiny 2, Bomberman etc.
Did you know that Stadia last 2 years have been UBI Soft's cloud service for all their games?

The library isn't that good on stadia, because Google isn't willing to gamble. Stadia had bad reputation before it even launched, and it's hard to recover because of the toxic media who had no clue what Stadia is.

In reality, it had best gaming streaming and it MS Cloud barely catched up in 2022.
Microsoft knew you had to go all in to attract people. Microsoft also knew existing Xbox users would get discount for years which is a money loss.
In fact. I had up to 50% discount on Game Pass for nearly 4 years. February 2022 were the first time i started paying normal price for Game Pass Ultimate. I play on PC 95% of the time so.
Cloud for weekly MS Rewards.

The new Sony sub is better than Stadia, but doesn't included 1st party games on day 1 which is a big mistake.
To be fair, Sony lives on Gaming.
Xbox is only tiny part of Microsoft, and MS have endless money stream unlike Sony.
Microsoft were thinking 10 years ahead and went all in.

When XCloud is out of beta, MS will release their Xbox dongle for TV's and market it bigtime.

The biggest joke is actually Switch Cloud.
NVIDIA Shield TV from 2015 streams 4K/60 better than 1080p/720p Cloud on Switch on nearly same chip. Both is Tegra X1, but Switch version is downgraded since 2015 version.

I suspect Nintendo thought the proper streaming part of Tegra were irrelevant for Switch in the future.
Weird that a 180$ NVIDIA box from 2015 streams 4K/60 better than 720p/30 on Switch.
I bought 2 NVIDIA Boxes in 2015 at launch and they came with Gamepads and remote controls for that low price.
Still use them in 2022 as they were ahead of their time for streaming.

@Serpenterror Bomberman Online on Switch were dead for years and only supported 8 players. Back in 2019 i couldn't find any match online at all on Switch even with only 4-8 players.

Stadia version supported 64 players in same game and were populated longer than the 8 player version on Switch.

Also. Stadia were never intended to be Netflix of gaming ever, but someone else explained that to you already.
I guess you confused Phantom with Stadia.

Anyways. Fall Guys is 2 years old and lost it's momentum and novelty already in 2020.
Good luck when it finally releases on Switch.

@dres Cloud gaming is very nice for testing games before you install them natively.
Xbox and PC owners also use it for weekly MS rewards.

As for cloud gaming in general. Mass market don't know what input lag is, so they are fine with cloud gaming as it is today.

You are also right that you don't own any game you buy digitally. When store, server and DRM is gone, your purchase is lost.

This is why i pay for Game Pass permanently. To me Game Pass is a cheap game rental service that saved me 1000's of $ in wrong purchases already, and purchases generally.

I still buy games of course, but not games that i know will be on Game Pass.