The developer of Silent HIll: The Short Message claims that Konami is seriously interested in releasing updated versions of older parts of the franchise on modern platforms

Last week saw the release of free-to-play horror game Silent HIll: The Short Message for PlayStation 5.

Simultaneously with the release of the game, the publisher Konami released a number of videos, one of which revealed some interesting information.

Here's What We Know

In the fourth instalment of the series of interviews with developers, the head of levelling design of HexaDrive studio (the developer of The Short Message) Rika Miyatani told that Konami originally proposed to create not a new horror game, but to port old Silent Hill parts to new platforms. A few years ago the publisher was looking for a decent studio to do this job, and HexaDrive had a lot of Silent Hill fans working in it, who even managed to create a prototype of Silent Hill 2 remake. But at some point Konami decided to hand over the development of the remake to the Polish studio Bloober Team.

As for the updated versions of other games in the series, Rika Miyatani claims that Konami was very interested in such projects and it is possible that they were handed over to some third-party studio, especially since recently the company itself indirectly hinted that Not just Silent Hill 2: Konami's financial report hints at the development of remakes and other parts of the famous franchise.

Recall that in 2012, the terrible quality of Silent Hill: HD Collection for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 was released. Perhaps, after its huge failure, Konami will prefer to release full-fledged remakes, rather than ports created by hastily inept developers, so right now there may be work on a modern version of Silent Hill 1, 3 or 4.

Source: SILENT HILL (Official)