Bloober Team, Developing Silent Hill 2 Remake, Had to ‘Push Konami Really Hard’ for PC

The age-old cold war between PC and consoles has calmed considerably in recent years. Once, everything was in its own silo, with games from one platform never appearing on another. A few, however, have crossed borders, and like the original, the Silent Hill 2 The remake will also be released on PC and console. But it wasn’t that simple, as its developer Bloober Team told us.

It seems that Konami wasn’t always so keen on the idea of ​​a PC port of Silent Hill 2. In an interview with Polish financial site Bankier, Bloober Team CEO Piotr Babieno opened up about some of the challenges the developer faced when it first started working on the horror remake.

“Silent Hill 2 is a game that has been associated with the PlayStation brand from the very beginning,” says Babieno. “In the very beginning, we had to put pressure on Konami to focus on PC. For them, PlayStation is their main market, but judging by the interest generated by the Steam platform, it seems that the launch should also be successful.”

Fortunately, those efforts paid off, as the game will be coming to PC at the exact same time as it did to PlayStation 5. With the Silent Hill 2 release date almost here, we’ll all be able to see very soon if the PC port holds up to the console version.

Additionally, Bloober Team’s CEO hinted in the Bankier interview that this might not be the last time we see the developer working with Konami. “We can expect that this won’t be the end of the adventure with Konami,” he adds. We can only theorize at this point what form future collaborations will take, but several Silent Hill games are in desperate need of a lick of paint, and some have never made it to PC.

Silent Hill 2 is coming out on Tuesday, October 8th and yes, it will be on PCHead over to Steam to check it out for yourself and see if you’ll be stepping into the fog with everyone’s favorite sad boy, James Sunderland.

If you can’t wait that long, you can take a look at our guides to the best survival games and the best old games you can play on PC, for your perfect gaming fix.

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