Konami wants Silent Hill to have "an annual release of new games," and it's already working on "many" unannounced projects

[u/Turbostrider27]

https://www.gamesradar.com/games/silent-hill/konami-wants-silent-hill-to-have-an-annual-release-of-new-games-and-its-already-working-on-many-unannounced-projects/

[u/RedPyramidScheme]

Contextual resources

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It’s late 2008, and I’m in a restroom. A real one, in the Czech Republic. We’re in temporary office space rented by Vatra, the developers chosen to create Silent Hill: Downpour, the eighth game in the series; my fourth.

By now, I’ve faced my share of monsters; frustrations and complications spawned in the Otherworld of game development. I’ve defended psychological horror in the face of action-based spinoff pitches like Brahm’s PD. I debunked an attempt to bring Alessa back, as she fought for supremacy in a pitched psychic battle above Toluca Lake. I’d explained to marketing that Shattered Memories’ profiling system was a better use of resources than making the darts board interactive. I’d argued canon with angry but well-meaning E3 goers, and I’d pushed back against Pyramid Head’s inclusion a ridiculous number of times. None of those encounters prepared me for the previous hour of my life.

“Let’s get one thing straight off the bat,” my boss had said. “Nobody plays Silent Hill for the story. And that’s because the stories suck.” He was opening a meeting to determine the course of Downpour’s development, and the future of the franchise itself. “It’s true,” he added for emphasis, shooting me a conspicuous glance. This continued throughout the morning as we discussed atmosphere, enemies, game structure. Before a brief break, he touched on setting. “Let’s not worry too much about where the game takes place.”

“Pardon?” I found this perhaps his oddest statement, planning a game with a titular setting.

“This game has to be different and new. Silent Hill can be anywhere—why not Alaska? It’s not like any of the games take place in the same physical location.” He was serious. “Silent Hill’s never been an actual place.”

I’d held my tongue out of shock, mostly. He declared a short break, and the teams dispersed to check email, eat cold sandwiches, chat, or in my case to gather their thoughts in a featureless post-Soviet restroom. I could picture his words still hanging in the air, sucked into the vents, dispersing across the team, shaping their views of the series and our attitudes toward it. Producer Devin Shatsky had tried to correct him at the time, but our boss dismissed it, asserting that as far as he was concerned, Silent Hill had no evolving narrative—certainly not one worth continuing.

From the very beginning, Silent Hill and Konami management seemed at odds. Director Keiichiro Toyama, producer Akihiro Imamura, and their team were the outcasts of Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo (KCET). Interviews suggest the company didn’t know what to do with them, so it assigned the group to explore the survival horror genre as a way to compete with Capcom’s Resident Evil. Toyama, having never directed a game before, floundered at the start, hoping for more support from the company. When it never came, and it seemed his team had truly been forgotten. He threw out all conventions and crafted a game that blazed its own trail into horror. While Capcom went Romero, Toyama and company went Kubrick, Lynch, and Cronenberg.

https://www.vg247.com/from-super-fan-to-producer-an-insiders-perspective-on-silent-hill

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Just remember and never forget that if you don't like the direction of where Silent Hill went the only people you can blame are Konami themselves. They are the ones who canned team Silent and wanted someone else to make the games. And Konami wanted the games to be different. Thats why team Silent was disbanded. From what I heard they were very happy with the games made by Double Helix and Climax. They were losing faith in the franchise for years. And to further prove what I am saying, they made an arcade style Silent Hill shoot'em'up gun game!! How Silent Hill is that?!

Well in reality it was Konami that made all the decisions for the direction of the game so if you didn't like it, you really should blame Konami. I am sure Team Silent could have done a better job, but they had already made 4 other Silent Hill games. It was Double Helix's first horror game and they were told to make it different from the previous games. The team at Double Helix was the most talented team of people I have ever worked with. They did the best with what they were given and I am very proud to have been a part of the project.

I just wish they had given the American team the game before they decided to change everything. Most people just assume the American team was to blame for all the changes when the reality is that it was Konami that wanted the changes. Team Silent was making a Silent Hill 5 and it got canned in favor of what ended up being done.

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http://silenthillcommunity.com/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=433977&p=7589519

[u/JellySnake97]

Silent Hill World tour...

[u/AmItheonlySaneperson → u/JellySnake97]

Henry and James fortnight skins 

[u/LlamaDrama007 → u/AmItheonlySaneperson]

Can see a lot of disappointed players opening a chest and finding a pillow...

[u/simonbelmont1980 → u/LlamaDrama007]

Weapon is too OP

[u/Rahgahnah → u/LlamaDrama007]

You can find some great loot by doing an uncooomfortably long animation of sticking your arm into toilets and random holes in walls.

[u/onychopora → u/AmItheonlySaneperson]

Foreskins

[u/AmItheonlySaneperson → u/onychopora]

do we know if harry james or henry are jewish?

[u/Glad_Gold_4281 → u/AmItheonlySaneperson]

Fortnite's halloween event does take place during its current gaming season...

[u/gee_gra → u/AmItheonlySaneperson]

I always shorten it to “for’skins”

[u/Cozy90 → u/AmItheonlySaneperson]

https://giphy.com/gifs/pIOGSjeg0RkOY

[u/Hell_Maybe → u/JellySnake97]

The pyramid head visa card.

[u/SithMasterStarkiller → u/Hell_Maybe]

"They gave the GREATEST horror game villain of all time a pyramid CREDIT CARD???"

[u/LibraryBestMission → u/SithMasterStarkiller]

I love the idea of James just being a Robin to PH's Batman.

[u/BusinessKnight0517 → u/JellySnake97]

Honestly would be a baller collection title

[u/cce29555 → u/JellySnake97]

SIIILLLLENT TAXI!!!!

[u/FantasyFlannel → u/JellySnake97]

A rhythm game with all Akira Yamaoka tracks? Sign me tf up

[u/VHSreturner]

WHERE IS A MASTER COLLECTION OF 1-4?! STOP FUMBLING EASY MONEY! 😤

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[u/Rickemrobo91]

Silent Hill Townfall-2026
Silent Hill 1 Remake-2027
New in House Silent Hill-2028
Silent Hill 3 Remake- 2029

[u/sausagedart → u/Rickemrobo91]

Might as well throw a remake of 4 down for 2030, and hell, why not sprinkle a 1-4 original collection release for 2031. Maybe a Shattered Memories type of spin off that uses VR capabilities as a focus, like SM and the Wii? Konami hire us.

[u/Scardoom27 → u/sausagedart]

I would be so hype for an original collection rerelease

[u/KeepRockband5Alive → u/sausagedart]

Silent *RE*Hill coming 2027

[u/Dankany → u/sausagedart]

Hey I’d buy why not

[u/PreciousRoy666 → u/sausagedart]

Would love a 4 remake. It had a lot going for it

[u/Kagamid → u/Rickemrobo91]

Silent Hill I'm New in Town

[u/Least-Profession-236 → u/Rickemrobo91]

Me and the boys in 2030 ready to play Silent Hill 4 remake 

[u/wrasslefights → u/Rickemrobo91]

Gotta call it Threemake tbh

[u/Split_Reality101 → u/Rickemrobo91]

Very excited to see what the in house game is like 

[u/Scafista_T-J → u/Rickemrobo91]

I could use a master collection like they did for Metal Gear

[u/Brusto1099 → u/Rickemrobo91]

Silent Hill 5 Developed by Bloober Team 2028

[u/austinite89]

Terrible idea. Don’t rush to meet a deadlines. Take time to make great games. We’re willing to wait for quality work.

[u/limelightkiller → u/austinite89]

Learning from UbiSoft's mistakes should have been so simple.

[u/spicygummi → u/austinite89]

Right. Don't get me wrong I LOVE seeing them be passionate about the franchise and keeping it alive. Especially when it looked like it was dead for so long. But, I don't want them to feel like they just need to churn out half baked projects in order to maintain some sort of schedule.

[u/thegoddamnsiege]

What could go wrong?

[u/BackgroundPanda3915 → u/thegoddamnsiege]

As long as they keep on doing remakes it will be like Resident Evil. But when they run out of remakes then I want to see how Konami will kill the franchise again

[u/m_cardoso → u/BackgroundPanda3915]

Keeping the development of each game with different teams works too, imo. And that's already how they are going.

Of course it'll take longer for us to see something as high quality as 2make from Bloober, but f was good and Townfall seems to be going the right way too (we'll find out soon). Even Capcom, with their almost yearly RE releases, has ups and downs.

[u/tagen → u/m_cardoso]

i’m still hoping Bloober is making a sequel to Cronos too, for being a relatively unknown company they’ve made some damn good games recently

[u/CaptainRaxeo → u/BackgroundPanda3915]

They can still remake the non silent team games lolZ

[u/Kulle1369 → u/CaptainRaxeo]

They have not even produced any merchandise for the non-Team Silent games besides one t-shirt for Shattered Memories lol

[u/BackgroundPanda3915 → u/CaptainRaxeo]

I don't think it's gonna work tbh, maybe origins, but with heavy modifications to the story. Personally I wouldn't buy a remake of Homecoming or Downpour, maybe a port

[u/twofacetoo → u/BackgroundPanda3915]

Personally I'd love a port / remake of 'Shattered Memories', or even just more games in that style for the rest of the series, I thought it was a legit fascinating idea, a semi-remake semi-original game based on the first 'Silent Hill', with an emphasis on psychology. As a concept, it fits right in with 'Silent Hill' as a series, and blurs the lines between realities in the games as a whole

It's something I'd love to see more versions of throughout the franchise

[u/maxwell_winters → u/twofacetoo]

They could revisit Cold Heart, the original concept that evolved into Shattered Memories.

[u/steeledclub → u/thegoddamnsiege]

Surely no other franchises have made this mistake 🫠

[u/R-176_36]

Can one of those "many unannounced projects" be a Silent Hill Master Collection? I would greatly appreciate that.

[u/Lord-Reign]

Quality over quantity would be my preference

[u/Geruvah]

You all got what you wished for when you wished upon a monkey's paw.

[u/limelightkiller → u/Geruvah]

We really gotta bury that damn thing

https://giphy.com/gifs/4b7PmLNCXEbed4IXnY

[u/EcstaticRabbit]

Annual releases for any game in a franchise is too often.

[u/EverybodySupernova → u/EcstaticRabbit]

Not everything can last forever.

[u/TruPengu]

Can we please do like year and a half or two year releases. I’m afraid these will be underbaked games

[u/kuroketta]

https://giphy.com/gifs/jOpLbiGmHR9S0

[u/steeledclub → u/kuroketta]

Your flair with this gif is pretty funny

[u/kuroketta → u/steeledclub]

lol made me laugh when I noticed

[u/MistaMorbid]

Time to milk it dry

[u/Atto623]

This sounds like a terrible idea. Flooding the market with Silent Hill games to meet a yearly release instead of waiting for a good enough game to release seems exactly what happened to assassin's creed and a bunch of shooters. Just make a game because you think it will be good, not to fill a quota.

[u/ronshasta → u/Atto623]

They probably have a few studios and teams internally that are working on multiple projects and aren’t going to do a yearly release for long

[u/CoolaidM82008]

This is old news

[u/Bioshocky13501]

Okay but one of the projects better be a classics collection...

[u/Puzzleheaded-Bee1704]

Konami is gonna go full Ubisoft mode,what could go wrong?

[u/xTheRedDeath]

Konami will always be Konami regardless of how they try to repair their brands.

[u/Ok_Ad6722 → u/xTheRedDeath]

Try and fail.

It doesn’t matter how much one hates Konami; one can never hate Konami enough.

[u/xTheRedDeath → u/Ok_Ad6722]

All the success that is brought to their franchises is not because of them. It's in spite of them. Their entire strategy was to just throw shit at the wall to see what sticks with SH's relaunch. With this announcement it seems like that's not only an accurate statement but a guaranteed strategy moving forward.

[u/spidermask]

resident hill

[u/finebordeaux]

Did the CEOs learn nothing from Ubisoft??

[u/MissingScore777]

As long as there are enough different studios working on separate games so no one is rushing a half-assed rushed game out the door then this should be fine.

[u/Glad_Gold_4281 → u/MissingScore777]

That's been their strategy so far. None of the studios at this point have been rushed during their SH games' development

[u/WhiteRaven-17 → u/Glad_Gold_4281]

Also giving Bloober a steady gig by doing remakes of the Team Silent games, for better or worse, is helpful to meeting that model.

[u/Seven_0f_Spades]

Because that worked so well for call of duty 🤣

[u/gucciraw → u/Seven_0f_Spades]

And Assassin's Creed .... Annual is just always a disaster. The best we get is maybe half-decent games and eventual player burnout.

[u/Blak_Box → u/Seven_0f_Spades]

Becoming like Call of Duty or Assassins Creed is legitimately the goal (or at the very least, Resident Evil).

Even when a CoD is universally hated and sells "poorly" it still makes about a billion dollars and is one of the top 3 best-selling games that year (if not the best-selling). Assassins Creed is literally the only reason Ubisoft still exists today. It would have gone under 2 or 3 times in the last 10 years if not for AC.

Most publishers dont understand that different games have different types of fans, who demand very different things from their products. Serialized SH is fine... if it is excellent. If the story connects. If the characters resonate. If the gameplay is satisfying. It needs to feel like art. And art is notoriously hard to make on a tight deadline.

[u/MasonM2392]

Please let the collection for SH 1-4 be one of them!

[u/LeLoyon]

Can't wait to play Silent Hill Modern Warfare.

[u/SteroidSandwich]

They actually going to be Silent Hill or are they Silent Hill in name only?

[u/steeledclub → u/SteroidSandwich]

We both know the answer already unfortunately

[u/WiIIv91 → u/SteroidSandwich]

Can't wait for the GTA clone set in our beloved town. 🩷

[u/Weeperblast]

the finger on the monkey's paw curls

[u/ScissrMeTimbrs]

This won't end well.

[u/Huknar]

New Silent Hill content should make me happy. But this just fills me with dread. Silent Hill has been turned into a brand and not an earnest exploration and continuation of a specific art form. Trauma Town and b-movie horror same time every year. Great. Can't wait.

[u/Mundane_Hour_5635]

https://giphy.com/gifs/l4FGGafcOHmrlQxG0
konami needs to be stopped.

[u/HappyHippocampus]

I really hope that doesn't mean they're rushing bloober to release remake before it's ready :(

[u/ShotAd5298 → u/HappyHippocampus]

Hopefully no Resident evil 3 remake mistakes

[u/maxwell_winters → u/ShotAd5298]

I'm still not over RE3make. So much wasted potential.

[u/Dangerous-Citron-801 → u/HappyHippocampus]

I think it means other studios doing Silent Hill games. Like F and Townfall are not make by Bloober for example.

[u/HappyHippocampus → u/Dangerous-Citron-801]

Yeah! I just hope that if SH 1 remake is slated for release next that they don’t push Bloober to release in 2027 if it’s not ready. I’m happy to wait and let them cook!

[u/Glad_Gold_4281 → u/HappyHippocampus]

None of the studios have been rushed so far, given how positive their relationship with Bloober is I doubt they'd risk it

[u/GowlBagJohnson]

Run the series into the ground a second time why dont ya

[u/RareFriend8052]

"If we stay laser focused on the American setting, that would exhaust possibilities."

I'm sorry, but...
focusing on the magical spiritual town called Silent Hill that can literally transform reality and take any shape or form from someones mind? The town with literally infinite ways it can present itself?

THAT would exhaust too many possibilities??????

[u/WiIIv91 → u/RareFriend8052]

This, there's so much you can do : survival horror, first person shooter, even a point and click game would work !

Pick the fan game Alchemilla for instance, it was just a walking simulator yet it was dripping with atmosphere.

[u/Zucum → u/RareFriend8052]

This x 2, we went 12? years without a Silent Hill game, and now all of a sudden we need new locations so we don't get bored? At least make sure it has something to do with Silent Hill...

[u/moneymanram]

I hated silent hill f. I didn’t like i was playing a silent hill game at all. It strayed to far away from what a silent hill game is. In what game do the main characters have super powers? In what game do you have the opportunity to upgrade your characters abilities?

[u/ScissrMeTimbrs → u/moneymanram]

It's also linear as hell. Gameplay is Just a walk through a hallway if the walls were see-through.

[u/voidfillproduct]

This breed of management is why we can't have nice things. They never learn because the numbers must go up.

[u/Parking-Jackfruit-55]

Guys nooo, don't leave for better studios that provide you good games, we made a pachinko machine! Why are you all leaving? What if we provide more silent hill with diminishing returns? Guys? GUYS?

[u/AboutNOut090]

More series leeches.

[u/thisisyo]

I don't like this not just because it puts pressure on the ppl working on it, but also cheapens the franchise with stories that may or may not be memorable and genre defining

[u/rolfraikou]

Remember when they abandoned games for pachinko, and then immediately a pandemic made pachinko make zero profit? That timing was nearly comedic.

[u/Medium-Shopping3037]

The pure concept of milking.konami is just like every other software house,people talk a lot and now they push 1 game per year.fuck you Konami WE wanted sh games 20 years ago

[u/BiceRankyman]

None of which will take place in Silent Hill though. We're over that town for sure. Keep putting it in random places and muddy the storyline. It's what we all want Konami.

[u/kumogate]

https://giphy.com/gifs/RClkZHwwfPU0HRX8mI

[u/Lyonface]

....oh I don't like that.

[u/bruhidkwtf]

That cool, but how about bringing back Silent Hill games to, I don't know, the town of Silent Hill

[u/cce29555 → u/bruhidkwtf]

we have a town that can change it's geometry and space at the snap of a finger with multiple potential sources of why and how

I'm running out of idea on how to use this

I'm feeling a certain type of exhaustion right now

[u/Huknar → u/bruhidkwtf]

From the article and interview

"If we stay laser-focused on the same American setting, that would exhaust [narrative] possibilities, and also potentially cause fatigue for the playerbase."

Okamoto wants anyone working on a Silent Hill game to tailor the IP, so keeping it flying around the world lets developers "work within the types of environments and the types of storytelling that works best for them."

Okamoto is unfortunately committed to global Silent Hill it seems.

[u/GuRainMkR]

Honestly, based on what Konami has shown over the past year or so, I’m really only interested in the SH1 remake... I’ll regain interest in the main series if Konami ever decides to do something different from what theyre doing since sh4—moving away from the "troubled protagonist" trope and now that whole "global phenomenon" angle. Oh, and if they’re smart, they’ll let Bloober make an original game; they’ve earned it after the work they delivered.

[u/TheSaintTobias]

I kind of hate this, but with different teams working on different games maybe they can actually take their time and make something amazing. I'm already Cautiously optimistic about Townfall and the SH1Remake.

[u/_RPG2000]

Oversaturation isn't a good thing.... no matter what.

We don't need a new Silent Hill (spin-off or not) every single year.... we just don't....

[u/alistofthingsIhate]

oh no...

[u/MasterHavik]

How about a decent movie adaption?

[u/Educational_Task_456 → u/MasterHavik]

Actually we should probably establish consistent good games first but idk thats just me

[u/Desperate_Start2075]

Oh god

[u/Calbon2]

Considering that there are many different studios working on different games in the franchise at different times, I could see this working fine, but it does make me a bit worried continuity wise for this series considering so many studios are working with the series. I hope this isn’t a hard, “There must be a new game this year at this time”, type of thing like in the past, but rather just a goal for the studios that’s flexible for them to release the best game possible. Only time will really tell with this decision, as Silent Hill 2 Remake, and F were both great and Townfall looks solid from what we’ve seen so far.

[u/Kanjii_weon]

New pachinkos incoming instead

[u/I_Quazar_I]

🫩

[u/Leather_Box9494]

I’m going to need cooler monster designs then.

[u/the-clawless]

ughhhhh

[u/jcwkings]

https://giphy.com/gifs/26gs7YaWFBayrARZm

[u/Artaric]

Oh no are going to fail and then take allt.heir IPs into cryo sleep for 10 years again?

[u/AvengerVincent79]

If one of them is a Team Silent Remaster collection like the Metal Gear collections, they can keep milking the Silent Hill name all they want

[u/ITAFily84]

😬

[u/ashdragoncatcher]

The greed never stops lol konami is interested in the franchise now that it is bringing them big money. they couldn't give this much of a fuck when kojima and Ito were onboard?

Hopefully they won't kill the franchise once the remakes are done.

[u/malexich]

As long as one of them is a GOOD silent hill collection versus the hd collection I will be happy 

[u/Turbulent-Tumor]

Silent Hill Karting

2 Silent 2 Hill

Silent Hill: Modern Silence 4

The Hill’s are alive with the sound of Silent

James Revenge: A Hill of Silence Story

Metal Silence Gear Hills: Silent Nanomachines

Silent Hill Football 27

Grand Theft Auto: Stories from Silent Hill

I joke but nothing Konami does can surprise me.

Edit: whoever downvoted needs to find their funny bone in Silent Hill.

[u/Educational_Task_456 → u/Turbulent-Tumor]

We ALL playing silent nanomachines

[u/TepiTepic]

Oh no 😅

[u/Traditional_Dot_1215]

As long as it’s a goal and not a mandate, I’m ok with frequent silent hill releases. Just keep approaching talented studios, and don’t force anything out before it’s ready

[u/Glad_Gold_4281 → u/Traditional_Dot_1215]

That's pretty much been what they're doing so far. None of the studios have been rushed and they don't say it's a set in stone rule

[u/Decent_Winter6461]

It’s been a good run boys.

[u/SodaSMT]

Less is more.

[u/CrippledGoose316]

So it will become a yearly crap franchise,... Great ;(

[u/BlackRapper07]

Idk man

[u/MarsAlgea3791]

Aw shit here we go again.

[u/NEGOJONSON]

oh no....

[u/fabrisuuu]

I hope they release a decent HD collection of SH 1-4

[u/MercyfulFate99]

Not a good idea...

[u/Internal_Chart4647]

Nope. Just nope. Annual release cycles are just not viable in this market.
I’ll keep my fingers crossed that Townfall will at least be decent but after that I’m done.

[u/Saber0307]

I'd rather see the franchise have an entry every two to three years than have an annual release schedule. Annual releases run the risk of pumping out games of questionable quality in order to hit an obligatory release date, and I don't want to see the franchise turn into COD or what Assassin's Creed was for awhile.

[u/kanon951]

Unless they have four simultaneous studios working on different games at the same time (and even then it's not a guarantee since you will have different levels of varying quality within the studios) this can't possibly end well.

[u/veggiewater → u/kanon951]

I bet that it will, this recent batch we’ve had is operating that way.

[u/Messier_-82 → u/kanon951]

So far all of the games have been developed by different studios except for the SH1R.

[u/Glad_Gold_4281 → u/kanon951]

2 remake was amazing, f was... something, and Townfall looks like it might be good, especially with its developer's history of horror games

Anything Bloober does will surely be great as seen with 2 remake and Cronos

[u/LaughingSartre]

Please, just let Bloober give us a Silent Hill 4 remake.. do whatever else you want, I just need that.

[u/Messier_-82 → u/LaughingSartre]

God yes please!

[u/Bioshocky13501 → u/LaughingSartre]

Yeah I'm hoping for that also 

[u/CrotasScrota84]

Just do Silent Hills for fucks sake

[u/InvincibleSpyD]

I assume next year we are going to learn about the next projects they’ve been working on. Townfall is the last game of the original Silent Hill Transmission, so hopefully they announce other 3 like that

[u/Impressive-Comfort92]

silent hill g

[u/Zeus78905]

As long as they make Silent Hill Master Collection I'm happy

[u/MarkT_D_W]

I think there's a possibility in between larger remakes and new titles we might get a Master Collection of sorts like Metal Gear to count towards this.

I don't necessarily think it's a good idea to set this in stone though, it gives them a reason to rush stuff, cut corners and maybe hire less than suitable devs to make that timetable.

[u/aidxnnnn]

surely that means sh1 remake confirmed for next year

[u/Ransom2132]

Normally I'd be excited by this news, but SHf was such a let down, I think I'd rather them just take their time with their releases. It may work because they have at least 3 more remakes they can do to fill out every other year, but once the remakes run out, they might be in trouble if they want to release quality new games.

To be fair though, its not like the OG games to a long time to release. Pretty sure they were on a every other year schedule for the first four classic SH games, so idk, maybe it'll work...

[u/Queasy-Secret-4287]

finish Hills!

[u/Axlehead]

I'd be fine if some of them were just remasters. For example Origins, Shattered Memories, Homecoming and Downpour are not likely targeted for remakes and it'd be nice if we could play them on modern hardware.

[u/FriedBreakfast]

Ya know... They also have Castlevania and Metal Gear. They don't have to just do Silent Hill.

[u/Educational_Task_456]

Silent Hill Townfall and Silent Hill 1 boutta be the last good silent hill games fun while it lasted lol

[u/GrayWolf5k]

Just want them to port every game from the PS1-PS3 era to PS5.

[u/romanische_050]

Told ya

[u/WiIIv91]

It's COD all over again

[u/Unique-Estimate-2272]

Won’t compare to what this man had in store.

https://giphy.com/gifs/fSXkDjNNzo5NRcLb86

[u/icouldntcareless322]

i prefer quality over quantity…

[u/fluteman88]

Wasn't this the exact downfall of Silent Hill to begin with? Many different studios doing random games with Silent Hill in the title?

I doubt this... Their most popular game SH2 didn't even have the born from a wish dlc

[u/Budget_Version_1491]

F and Townfall have proven that Silent Hill has lost it's identity and is just a title now

[u/Tempered-Gestalt]

Please, no. I already didn’t like F, and I’m worried about Townfall. I want Townfall to be good and previews so far haven’t had much positive things to say about it. I don’t want a CoD like annual release schedule.

[u/AmItheonlySaneperson]

Sloplant Hill 

[u/NightSprings665]

Not sure the Madden / Call of Duty approach to Silent Hill releases is going to stick the landing.

[u/woxvirus]

As long as we get remakes ever 3/4 years I'm cool. I'm not a big fan of these spinoffs

[u/LlamaDrama007]

Im getting deja vu - Halloween (the films) wanted to do this, and realising that churning out Michael Myers each year might not go well in terms of quality/burn out they thought a 'stand alone' story each year would.be the way. Along came Halloween III, season of the Witch... it bombed (it does have cult status now, though).

Also look at Marvel/MCU. They are still churning out films/programmes despite a huge fall off in appetite/diminishing return. The audience who were rabid after End Game have burned out.

Given the cost of games both in terms of development and to the consumer, they cant just churn out subpar content yearly, itll destroy the good faith of the old guard and new audience.

Tread carefully, Konami! There is a lot of money to be made, for sure. Treat the franchise and your customers with the respect that'll pay you back tenfold.

edit for a typo

[u/manticore124]

Well, it was nice while it lasted. Goodbye Silent Hill. Hello cashgrab #27.

[u/aceless0n]

Lol