Konami is “potentially porting” the Silent Hill series to current-gen consoles

Konami is reportedly “potentially porting” the Silent Hill series to up to date consoles.

That’s in accordance to one in all 5 quick documentaries Konami printed on YouTube the evening it shadow-dropped The Short Message.

In the fourth video, a stage designer who labored on the highly-anticipated (and lengthy rumoured) playable teaser revealed that Konami had initially reached out to the group at Hexadrive – a studio that had primarily labored on porting older video games till it helped an inner Konami group develop The Short Message – “about potentially porting the Silent Hill series”.

Rika Miyatani, stage design director at Hexadrive, mentioned their studio initially obtained concerned with Konami after it unsuccessfully pitched to lead the Silent Hill 2 Remake.

As we now know, Konami handed on that pitch in favour of Polish horror developer Bloober Team, however Miyatani says simply six months later, Konami obtained again in contact to talk about The Short Message.

“Everyone, including myself, who were part of that discussion were big Silent Hill fans, so, internally, people started talking, and we said, ports would be nice too, but what we’d really like to see is a Silent Hill remade for current-gen consoles,” Miyatani mentioned, as transcribed by Eurogamer.

There’s been no different point out of porting the unique Silent Hill titles to current-gen programs, nor any indication of which video games, particularly, Konami was wanting to port. But Miyatani’s phrases made all of it the approach to the Konami-sanctioned documentary series.

If true, it will not be the first time Konami makes an attempt to revive the unique video games. Back in 2012 – throughout Konami’s self-coined “Summer of Silent Hill” – the writer labored with Hijinx Studios to convey Silent Hill 2 and 3 to PS3 and Xbox 360. However, lacking supply code and the determination to document new voice work – all wrongly attributed to Silent Hill’s then beleaguered producer, Tomm Hulett – resulted in an astonishingly poor displaying wherein characters had enamel the place they eyes ought to have been (no, not deliberately) and the framerate dropped to the velocity of a Powerpoint presentation at occasions.

We’ve reached out to Konami for remark and can replace as quickly as we hear again.

Silent Hill: The Short Message – Konami’s oft-leaked “contemporary psychological horror” spin on its long-dormant series that focusses on a youthful, extra up to date solid – was lastly official unveiled at this week’s State of Play.