Despite Konami denying it, a new Silent Hill installment is being developed by SIE Japan Studio and is said to be revealed later this year.
Several rumors regarding a new Silent Hill were debunked by Konami last month, stating that these were false rumors. As teased by Horror manga artist Suehiro Maruo, however, two photos have hinted at a Silent Hill meeting at Konami, suggesting that something is in the oven. While this ‘tease’ appears to be related to a different Silent Hill project, reputable horror insider AestheticGamer, who goes by the name ‘Dusk Golem’ on the ResetEra forums, who has now written a lengthy post on the rumored soft reboot from Sony.
Apparently, the project has been in development longer than previously expected following negations between Sony and Konami back in early 2019, and is said to be revealed later this year. Upon reveal, the game has been in production for roughly 18 to 24 months. We’ve included Dusk Golem’s post on the ResetEra forums down below:
To my understanding, the situation is a bit of a unique one. Toyama has good standing in the company because he's polite, professional, talented, and can do a lot with meager budgets. That said, neither the Siren or Gravity Rush games set the world on fire, they did make back money but neither were smash-out hits. Toyama wants to do another horror game, and Sony is completely fine with that, but if it was a new Siren game or a new IP, the actual budget would have to be on the slimmer side due to past performance indicating while both will do fine, neither would probably break out of a niche.
So enter in Konami about two years ago hunting for developers to develop two Silent Hill games. I wish I had a better understanding of how talks even began because that's a huge missing piece, but somehow or another Sony had the thought and talked with Konami still looking to fund two SH games that they could get in contact and develop a game. Toyama would be able to make a horror game like he wanted, it'd be behind an IP many would like to see Toyama work on and has more market share than Siren or another new IP does, Konami just want a quality SH game to help their reputation get back on track and been shipping around for the "right pitch". The deal was negotiated in early 2019, Sony Japan Studio is developing it composed of the Siren/Gravity Rush team, but they also contacted a lot of people who worked on Silent Hill previously to help with it, which is why people like Akira and Masahiro Ito are on board as well.
In terms of cost, Sony and Konami are both fitting the bill of development, Sony is making it, Konami gets a share of each copy sold and just partially have to fund development. From Konami's side having a Sony first party studio develop the game, with them only partially funding development and though they receive a smaller percentage cut from sales, they also don't have to pay for marketing or anything so they're cool with it and the quality may help their image. Sony for them I don't think they expect to set the world on fire, but the actual budget is nothing compared to some other games they fund, the budget is even made smaller due to Konami helping out, and this title has more of a chance as a horror game to succeed with the brand recognition and the demand for a good SH game from horror fans than a new Siren or IP maybe would based on past performance. It also helps many at Sony do like Toyama and his team and want to give them a chance to be able to stand out more and gain more recognizability.
I do hear the plan is the game will be revealed this year, (and at this point it's nearing being in development for about a year and a half almost), but it's hard to speak concretely about these things.
I also will add with the SH stuff, I received some word on some other things I'm not sharing which over the course of the next year will confirm or deny to me if what I was shared was true or not ahead of time. Some will feel that's an excuse I have "things that can prove it I can't share", but all I can do for now is be open and honest about it.
In a follow-up post, Dusk Golem again said that this new Silent Hill will be a soft-reboot that will serve as some sort of re-introduction to the series instead of a remake or full reboot.
“To the talk about a remake or new entry and such, I've heard from pretty much every person who may have knowledge on the title that this is a soft reboot, which as many say lot of the series is anyways but they're going a bit further with it this time”, he wrote. “At the moment in development they're thinking of just calling the game, "Silent Hill", it won't have any numbers or anything and be made so it can easily be a person's first entry in the series. It's not a remake and it doesn't erase past games but none of that is important really to this game.”
“From my understanding it's not a remake of the first game and it's not a complete reboot, more of a re-introduction.”
Whether these Silent Hill rumors are true, remains to be seen. Dusk Golem does a have good track record, however, when it comes to leaks and rumors in the horror genre.
As always we will keep you posted on this matter.
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