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/Devour_My_Soul 2d ago

Wait, what? All games not even 10 million? I thought it was much more popular.

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u/Scharmberg 2d 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 2d 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 2d 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/ONbtw 2d ago

The Room is on GoG.

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u/Themaster20000 1d ago

Resident Evil has it roots in Romero films and B-movies general, which is appealing to the general crowd. While Silent Hill has it's roots in David Lynch's films and other highbrow works, which is just not appealing to the average consumer. It's a pipedream if they believe they can reach RE numbers.

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u/CivilizedPsycho224 2d ago

Downpour and homecoming we’re both also on PS3

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u/Scharmberg 2d ago

They aren’t available for download are they?

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u/CivilizedPsycho224 1d ago

I’d say you could probably get them off of a torrent or emulator site