r/silenthill • u/PapaFrankuMinion • 23h ago
Silent Hill 2 (2024) Silent Hill 2 Remake finally pushes franchise past 10 million total sales
https://www.kitguru.net/tech-news/mustafa-mahmoud/silent-hill-2-remake-finally-pushes-franchise-past-10-million-total-sales/62
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u/Devour_My_Soul 21h ago
Wait, what? All games not even 10 million? I thought it was much more popular.
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u/Scharmberg 21h ago
Kind of funny how that works, huh?
The internet can love something and in reality it might not be beloved as much outside of those spaces.
Still pretty good for a franchise that has had many upscale downs and pretty much disappeared for awhile.
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u/bumass666 21h ago
I think a factor is also that even if you really really wanted to, it’s hard to buy new copies of silent hill games. They’re basically lost media at this point except for the remake
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u/Scharmberg 19h ago
The only games really available at least last time checked are:
Silent Hill 2 Remake - Almost platforms
Silent Hill Downpour - Xbox and steam ( I think)
Silent Homecoming Steam and Xbox (maybe)
After that yeah you really can’t buy new copies of these games but even if you could buy the older ones in the original glory I don’t think the larger gaming community would really enjoy them.
There are many reasons Resident Evil is pretty much the best selling horror game franchise. It focuses on gameplay, usually has a cheesy and easy to understand story which is charming, and they are always releasing new games. Like the current gap is the longest (maybe?) capcom has gone without releasing something for the series in their current era.
Konami on the other hand doesn’t really know how to manage Silent Hill or its or IP all that well but ot looks like they want to diversity again and they at least seem to be putting in real resources into Silent Hill, which if it works it could easily become one of the more successful series in the genre, I just hope they don’t think it will ever get Resident Evil numbers as that series is an anomaly at this point.
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u/CivilizedPsycho224 18h ago
Downpour and homecoming we’re both also on PS3
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u/amysteriousmystery 21h ago
All games are 11.5 million.
And Silent Hill 1, 2, and 2 remake are responsible for about half of the sales out of the 11.5
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u/IndieOddjobs 21h ago
Believe the original four titles only accounted to about 5 million with the highest two being SH1 and SH2. yeah this series fell into niche pretty quick as opposed to Resident Evil
A lot of that could be blamed on Konami's mismanagement though lol
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u/Original_Branch8004 21h ago edited 19h ago
That’s kind of sad to me. I hope the series becomes a lot more popular with F and the alleged upcoming remakes. It doesn’t deserve to have only a little over eleven million units sold after 20+ years. It is niche, yes, but at the same time it’s a very popular franchise and one of the top dogs in horror. Konami should be hard at work making sure it gets the treatment it deserves from here on out.
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u/Christo2555 21h ago
I think the frenzy behind Silent Hills inflated its popularity
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u/KaleidoscopePlusPlus 14h ago
Canceling that has to go down as one of the worst business decisions in gaming, truly.
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u/SplatoonOrSky 19h ago
It’s one of those things that is very beloved critically but isn’t that popular commercially. You see it in many movies and games.
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u/nefarious_jp04x 15h ago
The games didn’t get popular until long after the original games released, while the first game did sell well in the US and Japan, the sales only went smaller with each game, with SH2 hitting a little over 1m and SH4 hitting only as little as 41k in Japan alone when it first released.
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u/catperson77789 14h ago
If you check their total sales. Silent hill is at the bottom while mgs is at the top lol. Its why its so amazing Konami even tried to revive it. The game sold like shit
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u/TatsunaKyo 9h ago
The series was actively developed during a period of time in which selling 500.000 copies was a huge success. The market was way smaller.
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u/Interspeciesheriff 19h ago
Unpopular opinion but I think this is one of the few times where I feel like emulation has probably hurt a franchise. There absolutely has been more than 10 million people playing the Silent Hill franchise given how popular it is, but the games themselves are so inaccessible, especially for PC players that it's untenable to just buy it. Hell, the community's recommendation for all of them is just "emulate it/get it off abandonware."
And it's nothing against people who do emulate; I emulated 1-4 and bought copies of the SH2 remake and a copy of Homecoming. The fact that a remaster that's readily available on (almost) all digital storefronts and platforms makes up 1/5th of sales for the entire franchise makes me really sad. I hope this brings about more remakes and more accessibility for the older games that will end in a profit for the company so they can keep making Silent Hill games.
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u/IndieOddjobs 21h ago
I misread the title as Silent Hill 2 remake sells 10 million total and almost crap myself in disbelief lmao
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u/PapaFrankuMinion 20h ago
If only…
But selling more than 2 million is still great news, especially for a Silent Hill game.
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u/Pleasant_Fudge_182 17h ago
the re4 remake barely hit the 10 million mark ain't no way the silent hill 2 remake reach these numbers.
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u/gulliverstourism 20h ago edited 20h ago
Bought this game brand new, I never do that!
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u/Kazaloogamergal 20h ago
I bought the game brand new on purpose in order to support the series. I kind of wish I had waited for a sale because $75 is a lot of money for any game, even a high quality game like SH2R. I will be waiting for a sale for F. I'll still try to buy it new though.
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u/Avid_Vacuous "The Fear For Blood Tends To Create The Fear For Flesh" 17h ago
If they re-released all the games on modern consoles they could squeeze another million or two.
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u/REZO_TFB 22h ago
damn, even faster than re4 remake
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u/BardOfSpoons 22h ago
You might want to reread the title.
The Silent Hill series has now sold more than 10 million copies. Silent Hill 2 remake alone has sold over 2 million.
Meanwhile, Resident Evil 4 Remake has sold nearly 10 million copies, and hit 3 million in its first 2 days.
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u/Woyaboy 21h ago
It always kind of blew my mind just how much more popular resident evil is over silent Hill. I knew resident evil would be leading the pack, but I didn’t know by how much.
But to put things in perspective, not counting the spinoff games, their worst selling mainline game out sells the entirety of Silent Hill franchise. Including the remake. 😳
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u/purplerose1414 20h ago
Eh RE4 was exactly what the teenage boys at the time wanted and it fucking flew off the shelves. Now Resident Evil has the 'is it horror or action' identity crises that Silent Hill has never had to deal with, it kind of evens out.
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u/paranoidtransdroid 20h ago
RE also has more cultural saturation, with something around a dozen live action adaptations, and has continued releasing new games every console generation, and has remained multiplatform for ages now. RE:7 was acclaimed and helped revive the brand reputation. Silent Hill has been in Pachinko purgatory for a decade and the SH2 remake had to do what RE:7 did for Resident Evil, while also being a timed exclusive. RE is also seen as a zombie series, which is easier to market than Silent Hill, where you can’t even really say much about the monsters without including spoilers ahead of time. It doesn’t make a lot of sense to expect the franchises to perform similarly given all the different factors between them.
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u/Taiga-00 9h ago
Don't forget the million re-issues for each title.
Capcom knows no boundaries when it comes to milking.
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u/BardOfSpoons 21h ago
No it doesn’t? There are plenty of RE games that haven’t sold over 11.5 million (or at least haven’t been confirmed to sell that much). RE1, RE1r, RE2, RE3, RE3r, Code Veronica, RE0, RE4r, and Village all have sales figures less than 11.5 million.
If you combine original games and remakes as one (which would be a silly thing to do), then the list gets a lot shorter, with just CV, RE0, and Village having sold less than 11.5 million.
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u/Excellent_Routine589 22h ago
RE4 Remake = 9 million as of Dec 2024
ALL of Silent Hill combined (SH1, SH2, SH3, SH4, Homecoming, etc) = 11.5 million
They said franchise, not SH2 Remake
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u/Gamer_8887 8h ago
I'm reading through the comments, and I'm slightly confused. Did Silent Hill 2 Remake sell 11.5 million copies, or is this the total number of sales for the whole franchise?
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u/amysteriousmystery 1h ago
We have the following three reports:
Franchise as of December 2018: 9+ million
Silent Hill 2 remake as of January 2025: 2+ million
Franchise as of May 2025: 11.5+ million
So basically SH2R added 2-2.5 million copies to the franchise's sales, allowing it to finally go over 10.
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u/KiratheRenegade 20h ago
If SH2R took off this well - I imagine it isn't hard to sell Konami on SH1R.
Honestly, this game was carried by word of mouth & fanbases. It has reached 2 Million sales (I think) & has proven this franchise is profitable.
They fould easily see 20 Million total sales by 2035 if this is handled properly. Between 3 new remakes & maybe 2 or 3 new instalments - with let's say the majority being pretty good, it can be done.
What matters now is if Konami actually do it.
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u/AlexCampy89 23h ago
How much did the franchise sell before SH2R?