Silent Hill 2 remake dev Bloober Staff needed to “push Konami very arduous” for PC

The age-old chilly struggle between PC and consoles has significantly thawed over latest years. As soon as upon a time every little thing was in its personal silo, with video games on one platform by no means showing on one other. Just a few, nevertheless, crossed over, and like the unique model the Silent Hill 2 remake may even be coming to PC in addition to launching on console. It almost wasn’t fairly really easy, nevertheless, as its developer Bloober Staff has recounted.

Plainly Konami wasn’t all the time fairly so onboard with the thought of Silent Hill 2 having a PC port. In an interview with Polish monetary web site Bankier, the CEO of Bloober Staff, Piotr Babieno, opened up about a number of the challenges the developer confronted when beginning work on the horror recreation remake.

“Silent Hill 2 is certainly a recreation that has been related to the PlayStation model from the very starting,” Babieno says. “”On the very starting we needed to push Konami very arduous to concentrate on PC. For them, PlayStation is their fundamental market, however judging by the curiosity on the Steam platform, plainly it must also be a profitable launch.”

Fortunately that pushing has paid off, as the sport might be arriving on PC at precisely the identical time because it does on PlayStation 5. With the Silent Hill 2 launch date nearly right here, we’ll all get to see if the PC port holds up with the console model very quickly.

As well as, the Bloober Staff CEO hinted within the Bankier interview that this will not be the final time we see the developer work with Konami. “We will count on that this isn’t the tip of the journey with Konami,” he provides. We will solely theorize at this level what form any future collaborations might take, however there are a number of Silent Hill video games badly in want of a lick of paint and a few which have by no means come to PC in any respect.

Silent Hill 2 will launch on Tuesday October 8 and sure, it’ll be on PC. Head over to Steam to test it out for your self and see in case you’ll be entering into the fog with everybody’s favourite unhappy boy, James Sunderland.

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