Two titles are dominating the headlines this weekend for polar opposite reasons: Call of Duty: Black Ops III for its impending announcement – and Silent Hills for its seemingly inevitable cancellation. Hot on the heels of demo P.T.'s imminent removal from the PlayStation Store, acclaimed film director Guillermo del Toro – who was involved with the project alongside Hideo Kojima – has apparently told an audience at the San Francisco International Film Festival that the survival horror is dead.
The news comes courtesy of a Twitter quote from an attendee at the panel, which is admittedly a shaky source. However, we've checked the SFIFF's schedule, and the coveted movie maker was due to talk at the Castro Theatre overnight. He apparently said this: "[Silent Hills] is not going to happen and it breaks my greasy heart." This is, of course, the second game with del Toro's involvement to be cancelled; THQ's inSane never saw the light of day either.
It's entirely possible that the director may have been misquoted here, but given everything that's going on with publisher Konami at the moment, it seems more likely that the game really has been canned. We'll reach out to the publisher now in order to try and get some confirmation – but we're not exactly expecting a response on a Sunday. After all, only muppets like us work over the weekend.
Update (20:45PM BST): An IGN source has shed a little more light on Guillermo del Toro's comments on Silent Hills. Apparently, the director was referring to his collaboration with Hideo Kojima when he said that "it's not going to happen". This means that the game could, in theory, still be in production. We'll keep trying to get a comment from Konami.
[source twitter.com, via neogaf.com]
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Would it have been the game we longed for anymore without the main man anyway?
I truly hate Konami, it is now my most-hated company, easily. Even more so than Capcom, EA and SquareEnix combined.
What a joke! Probably the best teaser of all time with huge hype 😡
Where's my violin?
yeah after Kojima left (or was sacked whatever happened) I think this was a given
It wouldn't have been the same without Kojima, true. Still, if that team could have extended the thrills of P.T. into a ten or so hour nail biter, I think this would have been a real classic.
Obviously we don't know what's gone on behind the scenes, but I'm pretty furious at Konami for 'breaking up the band' right now.
Sad
If I was Sony (heck any publisher) I would find out what Hideo Kojima's future plans are, and if he is leaving Konami I would not only sign up the studio he would presumably create but I would also put them to work on the Silent Hills game they were going to make in the first place. Just obviously without any of the Silent Hill references.
@adf86 I'd be surprised if that wasn't already happening. Everyone's going to want to try and get Kojima - the question is: will he want to work with a publisher - or would he rather go it alone?
Why does everything love get taken from Me.if Sony had the cash, I would buy the silent Hill ip outright, and promptly throw money at Kojima to secure him a studio. In an ideal world they could just buy Konami, and in the ultimate fu rename it Kojima studios and call it a day.
What if kojima signed for microsoft?
Now that would be a real pisser!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm not convinced that the PT incarnation of SH is in the trash just yet. It had too strong of a positive reaction from fans, IMHO. Silent Hill 5 will be on ps4, we just have to wait for the stars to align. And now Kojima and del Toro can focus on mgs5 and new ideas respectively.
@BigDaddyT0101 indeed, konami can't sit on the IP, that would be a disgrace
@Bad-MuthaAdebisi sit on it, do something with it, I have 0 faith in Konami period. I can't remember the last non Kojima game I actually bought that was published by Konami. Maybe the second silent Hill? The others were not close to as good, and I may have either rented or bough used.
@get2sammyb I think he'll go with a publisher. I would think he could get someone to give him the freedom of being alone, but the resources of a publisher.
It's no great shame to be honest. The full game was never going to live up to PT.
@Jaz007 he's got more ego than Piers Morgan and Katie Hopkins combined. He'll go solo, the game will never get made (lack of money) and he'll go to a publisher with his tail between his legs for much less money than originally offered.
The only way this situation could be salvaged is if Del Toro, Kojima, and Sony got together to save the project by turning it into an original horror I.P.
@KratosMD @Gamer83 I think Capcom isn't so bad. They have really good line up of hd remasters and their games are actually pretty good. Monster Hunter 4, Revelations 2, Dragon's Dogma.. Street Fighter V... I really looking forward to DD online and Deep Down.
del Toro keeps announcing games that'll never get made lol
I was in the audience last night as well and can confirm that's an exact quote from him. Additionally, he said he's decided he's only going to focus on directing movies from now on, he's not producing or working in other mediums, including games.
@crossbonesstyle Thanks very much for the comment.
@crossbonesstyle I think he said the same after canceling that Wii game. (or thats what I like to think)
I can't believe Konami killed a game with so much hype surrounding it...
Once Kojima left the company I figured it was going to be cancelled. I can say I am not at all surprised. I just can't believe others are.
I never liked P.T. to begin with, from a Silent Hill point-of-view. I enjoyed the demo, but there wasn't anything particularly "Silent Hill" about it, IMHO.
Plus, I thought there seemed to be "too many cooks in the kitchen", as they say, with both Kojima AND del Toro directing. Not to mention trying to adapt the demo to their initial game ideas (I think it was clear that the game wasn't originally supposed to be anything like P.T.). Unfortunately, now no one is in charge.
Still, I hope Konami will salvage what they have and keep going. If not, I guess there's always Night Cry...
If it does get axed then Komami would've lost a potential brilliant reboot.
@Comrade44 He was apparently asking for it though. He punched a producer in the face, and while I'm not 100% sure of it, I think it was over a hot meal at the end of the day.
But thank goodness there's another Call of Duty coming out.
@rastamadeus Ego? What? The guy was recently going on about how GTAV made him feel insecure about his own works...
@get2sammyb I reckon he'll just get out now, and rest easy in his luxury pad, sleeping on top of a pile of money.
so as long as it's on my ps4 It won't be removed?
Konami still going to make Silent Hill... what else IP they have besides PES, MGS & Silent Hill?
But that will be a totally different game from what's originally planned...
@whywai88 You forgot Castlevania.
@Kage_88 And? The man is massively vain and egotistical. He's so far up himself he could wear his kidney as a hat. That isn't a criticism though. I think he's wonderfully talented and look forward to what he does next but, let's be brutally honest, he will be too proud and full of himself to not go it alone. By doing so he will rely on Kickstarter and when he starts pissing away that money on more and more cutscenes it will quickly run out and he'll be forced to get publisher backing.
@Comrade44 Massively off topic that. But yeah, being racist constantly, bringing embarrassment to his work place and then punching someone because lunch wasn't ready... easy to see why you'd be annoyed Clarkson lost his job. Besides, if you can't see he deliberately got himself fired to move to another company ("Hello, Mr. Murdoch!") for more money then you really need to step outside into the real world a bit more.
Norman Reedus also posted a Tweet indicating that the project might be dead. I am displeased. The P.T. demo really got my attention to what was possible with moving forward, so it's a bummer this is apparently not going to happen now.
Boo Konami! Boo!
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2015/04/27/konami-confirms-silent-hills-cancelation-but-series-still-alive.aspx
@Gemuarto
RE: Revelations 2 is one of my favorite current-gen games and I will admit I tend to like Capcom's games more often than not. It does things sometimes that make no sense at all though.
@rastamadeus I still don't know what you mean. Where are these instances that indicates Hideo Kojima has a huge ego? I see people saying this all the time, yet never give any specific examples.
@Tasuki They ruined the franchise with that awful reboot and its 3DS/Vita sibling Mirror of Fate (seriously...I paid full price for that game and I still feel utter regret, 2 yrs later)
Luckily I can now play most of the older titles on Wii U and 3DS. Replaying Castlevania IV and Aria of Sorrow is heaven.
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