The Biggest question here. WHY KONAMI GIVE A F*** NOW?

[bercerus]

really, why now of all sudden. and not just a remake but 3 more games and movie sequel.

and that is quit a project after they leave their legendary IPs in the dust and swim in pachinko money for almost a decade. a covid hurt pachinko business maybe? or a they got a new executive who want to turn things around?

[Jinn-Gon Qui]

I kinda hope it has to do with a new executive which significantly turned things around. Also the fact that they brought back two key developers; one for the monster designs and the other for the composition.

[VVakba]

Capcom opened the door.

Money. Big gamer money.

[Хела]

https://youtu.be/8CTeLy3Ujxc

[Snooky]

well its not like they just recently started working on them, they had those projects in the works for a while now. the movie was originally pitched many years ago if i got it right and the SH2 Remake has been in the works for 3 years now

[dprog1995]

Because at 2014-2015 they lost a lot of money on making financial failure AAA games(MGS V,Castlevania LOS 2,Metal Gear Rising etc) that their higher management decided to stop making AAA games for some time.

It also didn't help that Kojima loved to delay his games a lot and that financially damaged Konami in some ways.

[Nicodemo Gommorah #TransGaming]

"First of all, congratulations Konami"
Konami: Hello, I like money
"What inspired you to bring back the silent hill series"
Konami: Money

That's basically the truth of it. Konami is still ultimately motivated by profit (and their personal greed) as with any other company. Silent Hill has been regaining popularity, and some executives thought bringing back the series was a good way to profit off of that.

Konami is a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ company, and I don't want to defend them, but I personally am glad the series is back and I will be buying the game. I just frankly hope it's good. Call me a consumer if you want, I just want to support silent hill, I don't want to support Konami. There's plenty of great games made by terrible developers and corporations, and silent hill is unfortunately a big example in this regard. I wish this wasn't being published by Ubisoft, but I also don't wanna look a gifthorse in the mouth when it comes to the greatest horror series of all time returning.

[Gerfreckle]

They saw how much money Capcom made with the Resident Evil remakes. That's all.

[Raptor]

Because, after RE2/3 remake and other remakes like Mafia it seems Remakes are the new trend to bring old franchises back form the dead. Alone in the dark and dead space are doing it too. Konami want only money. Don't forget that!

[Vesper]

Craziest thing really is the fact that it's a four project spanning revival, with two big budget scope releases.

I genuinely hope at least half as much love will be poured into Konami's other dead franchises: Metal Gear Rising 2 would be obvious with the title's ever-increasing popularity online, and Castlevania is overdue in light of the Netflix series' popularity.

[dprog1995]

Origineel geplaatst door Kyriarch:

Craziest thing really is the fact that it's a four project spanning revival, with two big budget scope releases.

I genuinely hope at least half as much love will be poured into Konami's other dead franchises: Metal Gear Rising 2 would be obvious with the title's ever-increasing popularity online, and Castlevania is overdue in light of the Netflix series' popularity.

Metal Gear Rising was a financial failure. It sold less copies than a PSP exclusive MGS Portable OPS despite having far bigger budget and released on more popular platforms.
Newest popularity of Rising isn't that profitable for them since new fans will buy the game heavily discounted.

Maybe they hire Platinum to reboot it after some time but I don't think that it will happen.

[Peelsepuuppi]

Aping Capcom Just like they did with original Silent Hill. History is repeating it, hopefully the success will also be repeated.

[Peelsepuuppi]

Origineel geplaatst door dprog1995:

Origineel geplaatst door Kyriarch:

Craziest thing really is the fact that it's a four project spanning revival, with two big budget scope releases.

I genuinely hope at least half as much love will be poured into Konami's other dead franchises: Metal Gear Rising 2 would be obvious with the title's ever-increasing popularity online, and Castlevania is overdue in light of the Netflix series' popularity.

Metal Gear Rising was a financial failure. It sold less copies than a PSP exclusive MGS Portable OPS despite having far bigger budget and released on more popular platforms.
Newest popularity of Rising isn't that profitable for them since new fans will buy the game heavily discounted.

Maybe they hire Platinum to reboot it after some time but I don't think that it will happen.

MGR2 might actually work. The game is now better known thanks to the meme than it was on release. The Newfound popularity won't bring tons of revenue from the old product, but it might give enough relevance to a new product.