As announced a couple of months ago, the Silent Hill 2 remake is being developed by Bloober Team, the Polish studio behind The Medium, who have announced that this new version is technically ready, but that the decision on the release date remains in the hands of Konami. Statement made by Piotr Babieno, president of the studio, during an interview with the Polish media Bankier.pl who said that although Silent Hill 2 remake is technically ready, this “does not mean that the game is finished, but we are close. However, the issue of the release schedule falls on our partners (Konami)”, assuring that it is they who must decide what the promotion will be like and when the title will be released, since it is a task that does not fall on Bloober Team.
And in the same interview, Babieno indicates that players can expect great things from this reversion of Silent Hill 2, advancing that the studio hopes that their titles “will not only be milestones for the genre in the future, but also for the entire industry.” . We have said many times that our objective is where Naughty Dogs or Ninja Theory are”, making a parallel with other studies who have left a mark among gamers.
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In fact, the executive at the head of Bloober Team indicated that according to market research, the games they have created so far had a sales ceiling of 2 million copies, while survival horror has a higher bar, at the level of several million copies. This is why he assumes that “10 million copies sold is a reach that will soon be real for us.”
Figures with which he surely refers to his two major current productions, Project C, a game on its own IP in cooperation with Private Division (Take-Two Interactive) and Silent Hill 2 with Konami, who now have the post and must deliver a release date after the developers indicated that the product is “technically ready”.
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