The age-old chilly warfare between PC and consoles has significantly thawed over latest years. As soon as upon a time all the pieces was in its personal silo, with video games on one platform by no means showing on one other. A couple of, nonetheless, crossed over, and like the unique model the Silent Hill 2 remake can even be coming to PC in addition to launching on console. It practically wasn’t fairly really easy, nonetheless, as its developer Bloober Workforce has recounted.
Plainly Konami wasn’t all the time fairly so onboard with the concept of Silent Hill 2 having a PC port. In an interview with Polish monetary website Bankier, the CEO of Bloober Workforce, Piotr Babieno, opened up about among the challenges the developer confronted when beginning work on the horror sport remake.
“Silent Hill 2 is unquestionably a sport that has been related to the PlayStation model from the very starting,” Babieno says. “”On the very starting we needed to push Konami very exhausting to deal with PC. For them, PlayStation is their essential 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 will probably 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 Workforce CEO hinted within the Bankier interview that this is probably not the final time we see the developer work with Konami. “We are able to anticipate that this isn’t the top of the journey with Konami,” he provides. We are able to 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 should you’ll be entering into the fog with everybody’s favourite unhappy boy, James Sunderland.
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