Castlevania Anniversary Collection

I've seen this from a lot of people now, and while that may be some part of it, I don't think so. The same thing was said of Requiem. If they can't tell from Netflix, Curse of the Moon and Requiem by now that there's interest, they still aren't interested in said interest ;p

The main concern is risk aversion for them, in how I see it from their point of view. How we look at what they do is them being evil, but from their standpoint it's like this:

Even if proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that every fan at even a casual level wants a new Castlevania and believes in their heart they would buy it, they know how exquisitely hard to please we all are. Everyone at every level of demographic/generation has a different idea of what Castlevania is, and the last time they tried to do something "new", it split everyone and got bad to middling critical reception.
A new Iga style game? Way too much work for too little potential return on something that niche'd itself into the ground. All of the publishers Iga approached proved as much by unanimously turning him down. Without the attachment of the original people behind it, too, this wouldn't get far off the ground. It'd be some Survive-style bastardization most likely, and I think even they know that's a bad idea given how clear the good guy vs bad guy narrative it would have against Bloodstained.
A new classicvania game? That's like a new classic arcade game in 2019, such as beat 'em ups, shmups, their own Contra, anything stage-based is dead in the water for any large company's consideration. That's an indie product or the occasional curiosity for companies in a better place to actually already make many good console games and collections to support it (Mega Man). Konami definitely isn't Capcom.
Something new? See above - probably not.

So, the incredibly low risk approach has been and will likely continue to be for some time the best way to go - gambling/mobage. Easy, almost automatic returns on re-use of things, now with basic compilations. The only chance to pull out of this is for them is to find a group to take full control of a game and make some charming hybrid of new and old, that should have already been. I think several dev companies could do it, but they either may not be interested or Konami's terms too limiting, or they haven't even tried communicating for it from the bad experiences with outsourcing above. If they could just learn that they can get someone else in Japan to do their damn work for them, but that may also be a matter of pride, either their own or the dignity of those they'd ask.

On that last point, I can easily picture this - a fact is that Hideki Kamiya's favorite action game is Castlevania 1. However, him being the guy that he is, if Konami approached him and asked if he'd work together with them to bring back CV, I can imagine his response would be "Never call me again - you guys are jokes and deserve your reputation. I have my own IPs that stomp yours".

It will be interesting to see how it goes.

A "4th"/new ReBirth game was among the rumors at one point, too, which was exciting. I'd heard of that news much before Curse of the Moon's release, so I was hoping it would be Castlevania 3 - perhaps tying it in with the current Netflix seasons. Would have been very smart and less of a risk than most ideas.

No, I'm not entirely sold on the Platinum/Kamiya idea myself, rather just an example. I'd like to see the series either be its own thing or continue in previously held genres. A one-off celebration of characters high in fanservice seems like it'd serve well, too, outside of Grimoire of Souls. Many would be interested in a "Warriors" game which would do that, and a risky yet interesting move would be to set the 1999 Demon War in that genre or a clever spin on it.

I believe myself that classicvania -and- Igavania can work for new/current CV games, and be profitable, but in their eyes likely not. Maybe after Bloodstained has proved itself fully and completely to them and everyone besides just us, beyond the Kickstarter phase and the lead-up period we're in right now.

Something can/will happen eventually. I don't know which/how much or if any at all of those events you listed have significance to that end, but we're in a place now where it's a better idea for them to move than it has been in quite a long time. The good news for me as a Bloodstained fan though is I see us benefiting from it regardless of success or failure.

Not really expecting much from Konami these days after alienating and driving away their in house talent and releasing games like MG Survive, CV Grimoire of Souls and Harmony of Despair. They could rely on outsourcing as mentioned and farm it out to Inti Creates, Way Forward or Platinum Games (Nier Automata team) depending on the scale of the project which would be great. But I just don't think they'd be willing of sink a lot of resources into a new CV project based on their corporate culture as it exists today. Hope I'm proven wrong though.

I hope this was a slip, even if the text was made before for the launch of website. That would mean someone knows about a second collection in the works. I want Symphony of the night and Rondo of blood on Switch. Of course, GBA games would be great as well, but I am going to keep my hopes moderate.

If M2 is involved, we might get Castlevania: The Adventure ReBirth and GBA games in the next collection. Rondo could be in the mix because it was already on Wii Virtual console, too. But mostly I want Symphony to come to Switch! 

＞• Bonus Book eBook

I'm glad if there is a picture not on this.

purifyweirdshard where are you seeing that? From the Konami site (https://www.konami.com/games/50th/ac/castlevania/us/en/):

"This KONAMI Castlevania Collection is designed to be a collection around the origins of the historic franchise.
Included is a unique eBook that has details provided by developers, artists and other inspired by the Castlevania legacy.
Released as part of the KONAMI 50th Anniversary celebration, now the best time to relive these timeless classics that helped define the platformer genre."

I did see the original post that had "first" in it, but this is all I could find on that page now.

Odd they didn't use the Castlevania ReBirth: The Adventure for the collection.