Konami is reportedly “potentially porting” the Silent Hill series to contemporary consoles.
That’s according to one of five short documentaries Konami published on YouTube the night it shadow-dropped The Short Message.
In the fourth video, a level designer who worked on the highly-anticipated (and long rumoured) playable teaser revealed that Konami had originally reached out to the team at Hexadrive – a studio that had primarily worked on porting older games until it helped an internal Konami team develop The Short Message – “about potentially porting the Silent Hill series”.
Rika Miyatani, level design director at Hexadrive, said their studio initially got involved with Konami after it unsuccessfully pitched to lead the Silent Hill 2 Remake.
As we now know, Konami passed on that pitch in favour of Polish horror developer Bloober Team, but Miyatani says just six months later, Konami got back in touch to discuss The Short Message.
“Everyone, including myself, who were part of that discussion were big Silent Hill fans, so, internally, people started talking, and we said, ports would be nice too, but what we’d really like to see is a Silent Hill remade for current-gen consoles,” Miyatani said, as transcribed by Eurogamer.