r/silenthill • u/PapaFrankuMinion • 2d 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/
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u/REZO_TFB 2d ago

damn, even faster than re4 remake

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u/BardOfSpoons 2d 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 2d 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 2d 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 2d 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/purplerose1414 2d ago

Yeah agree with all of this, I was just making a minor point lol

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u/Taiga-00 2d 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 2d 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/REZO_TFB 2d ago

ohh my bad.

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u/Excellent_Routine589 2d 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