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Kotaku: Silent Hills officially cancelled
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EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
Well, yeah of course. At the end of the day, Kojima was just an employee of Konami. Everything belongs to them.
Who would be surprised if it actually looked more like: Now we're not spending tens of millions of dollars on AAA games and can keep focusing on products with higher returns. Kojima was expensive. MGSV was expensive. Silent Hills was going to be expensive. Can you imagine how well Konami took Kojima telling them, "I want to work with [high profile director] and [actor gaining lots of traction] on a niche title."
Pharaoh 117
Member
Well, fuck Konami!
Super_Cobra
Member
Wow Konami you had a chance to redeem silent hills. Sell the ip to someone that wants to make the game.
Neuromancer
Member
Fuck you Konami. This is the shittiest thing you've ever done.
That's true. I actually sometimes wonder if Silent Hills could have lived up to PT. It seems impossible.
Paradise Brunch
Member
Fox Mulder
Member
Sad. I was truly excited for this with Del Toro and Kojima.
konami can go fuck itself.
konami can go fuck itself.
Thabass
Member
Well, they already Fucked you and me...so really they've already done 4 things on the list.
Latest trend? The hell you talking about? Pretty sure they've been into the fitness club and casino machines for quite some time, if I'm not mistaken. And both of them have been very successful endeavors. GAF may not care about them, but Konami is honestly a pretty stable company due to their other ventures.
paragonpro
Banned
I see a dark future where mgs v is delayed and repurposed into a f2p title.
Pretty much.
Is this a parody post? Kojima didn't program the engine.
IAmRandom31
Banned
There it is for the 2nd time?
Seriously, someone needs to dig deep or sleep with some interns or secretaries or SOMEONE to learn what the hell happened here between Konami and Kojima.
Konami has been dead to me for awhile now besides MGS so I could care less about their not so graceful exit from the console market. I just have to know what happened here.
Seriously, someone needs to dig deep or sleep with some interns or secretaries or SOMEONE to learn what the hell happened here between Konami and Kojima.
Konami has been dead to me for awhile now besides MGS so I could care less about their not so graceful exit from the console market. I just have to know what happened here.
artsi
Member
As a huge SH fan, this sucks.
And here's some music to accompany this sad announcement.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDgjTP8fuz4
And here's some music to accompany this sad announcement.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDgjTP8fuz4
YoYo Switch
Banned
Rip Konami.
Sounds like it. I'm glad they saw fit to kill Hudson in the process.
CloudyTuba
Member
Well Konami can go fuck itself. Theyre on my shitlist now along with Ubisoft.
I hope Kojima/DelToro can work together on a new horror project under a different publisher.
I hope it's true and they sell their IPs to Sony or something.
Hoping that they get out of the game business and just start licensing out FOX Engine for use.
I hope Kojima/DelToro can work together on a new horror project under a different publisher.
I hope it's true and they sell their IPs to Sony or something.
Hoping that they get out of the game business and just start licensing out FOX Engine for use.
FinalStageBoss
Banned
Shocking....said no one.
Konami's pretty much done with big budget games aside from Metal Gear.
Konami's pretty much done with big budget games aside from Metal Gear.
Typographenia
Member
There's always a next time. Maybe. Probably not. Oh well...
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
I would honestly be surprised if they were making any console games 2-3 years from now.
PES sales have completely cratered over the last few years.
Sad to see this shell of a former company.
PES sales have completely cratered over the last few years.
Sad to see this shell of a former company.
AusRoachman
Member
New games have already been leaked :
Silent hill saga
Flappy Norman
Angry pyramid
Silent hill saga
Flappy Norman
Angry pyramid
JimJamJones
Member
I was holding on to a tiny sliver of hope, but I guess its nice to hear it straight from the horses mouth rather than stringing us along for months.
It's just a damn shame though, Silent Hills was one of my most anticipated games this gen. With Kojima and Del Toro at the helm it could have been something really special, now we will never know.
It's just a damn shame though, Silent Hills was one of my most anticipated games this gen. With Kojima and Del Toro at the helm it could have been something really special, now we will never know.
I'm sure we'll know not long after MGSV is released and Kojima gives a tell all interview.
This is very disheartening to hear to be honest. After all Kojima's hard work....
This sucks ass so much. As a horror game buff P.T was the greatest and the most scariest thing ever and it made me wait anxiously for Silent Hills. Although I never was a huge fan of SH (especially after 1 & 2).
Well, I guess there's still hope that Guillermo Del Toro & Hideo Kojima will make a non-konami horror game not related to the Silent Hill universe. Which could turn out to be something even better than Silent Hills would have been. Too bad it won't have fox-engine which was absolutely stunning in P.T (even if it was downgraded for lulz)
Well, I guess there's still hope that Guillermo Del Toro & Hideo Kojima will make a non-konami horror game not related to the Silent Hill universe. Which could turn out to be something even better than Silent Hills would have been. Too bad it won't have fox-engine which was absolutely stunning in P.T (even if it was downgraded for lulz)
ShockingAlberto
Member
They're getting out of this particular market and only focusing on their massive moneymakers, which is MGS and, to a far lesser extent, PES.
Silent Hill is not anywhere on this pyramid, especially currently. Now, without a director and the game never really existing beyond a teaser, there's no real way to move that project forward. Who is at Konami that could make the game? They've outsourced the series before, it hasn't worked, and it's not a series that makes so much money (like Metal Gear) that they're willing to spend money to try.
What did people think the consequence of the big-budget AAA bubble correlating with the shrinking of the Japanese market would actually be? That everyone was just going to ride on niche series and remakes for ten years until the PS4 sold super well and then suddenly the doors would blow wide open for everyone? It's a feast-or-famine market now and Konami's decided they'd rather not risk planting crops without good yields.
Yes, maybe Silent Hills could have been huge, but what's huge today? Selling two million is not a ridiculous success across PS4, Xbox One, and PC unless you budgeted for that in the beginning and something about a Kojima-produced, del Toro-collaborated, Norman Reedus-starring game was unlikely to be there. Would it have sold three million? Four? What's the number that would have made the game people want profitable?
It sucks from the perspective of I Want This Game -> I Am Not Going To Get This Game. It seems that horror can do fairly well in the market, with proper expectations, but the stars did not align for this one. I don't think cancelling it is incompetency, though. Trying to float a boat after drilling enough holes into it is the incompetent thing.
the building they worked out of was also built by his own two hands. Damn shame how this all went down.
Triggerhappytel
Member
On the other hand, at least we got PT out of it. Try not to focus on what we've lost, but rather what we've gained.
Well it doesn't really matter. Kojima Productions (his team) did and it was Kojima's idea to create a brand new engine so they can compete more with western developers. He looked at the western market and saw that their lighting, animations etc. is much better than what they were using so Kojima decided to make a new engine.
PR damage control. If they're touching the IP ever again, it'd be mobile or Pachinko.
Sephiroth_GR_
Member
PES series....nah nope!
Zomba13
Member
After MGS5 there won't be any new Konami games to buy.
