RUMOR: Microsoft Saves Silent Hills [Confirmed False from MS!]
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Rikimaru
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No.
I hope so. Because that would be one of the biggest corporate bullying in the history of the gaming industry. It picked up on the PS4 with P.T. People went crazy about it and suddenly from a potentially multiplatform game with a guaranteed PS4 release, making it an XBOX exclusive is certainly one move that would piss off a great deal of gamers.
"Hey look this is a teaser on PS4. You want it dont you? You cant have it. Now buy an XBONE to play it because MS shoved in the money to bully the competition"
Rumors say the source is trusted?
.http://www.relyonhorror.com/latest-news/rumor-microsoft-gunning-for-silent-hill-ip-ahead-of-e3/
I wouldn't put it past them if the story is true. The Minecraft (Mojang) buyout of 2.5 billion is still mindboggling to me.
Why does it matter at all anyways? Better to release the game than never being it realised, or not?
The extra 20% of the development process that was left behind seems to be a lot of money. Billions of dollars... If that's so I'd expect a Silent Hill Hololens.
edit: another rumour says that the cancellation and the ulterior removal of the P.T. demo had something to do with this.
You should be happy you are free from Don Mattrick's paws. He is on the lose now and could end up working for another console. Armed and dangerous.
Phil Spencer freed us from Don Mattrick paws already.
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Well that's a kick in the teeth that I never expected from Microsoft.
If this is true they're not doing themselves any favours...
If this is true they're not doing themselves any favours...
That happens all the time in creative industries. You even get films completed and not released. Perfectly possible that the game was 80% complete and the publisher decided the ongoing investment wasn't worth it.
However, spending billions on the game makes little sense. That's just throwing money away.
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Indeed, but as Shortbread said: Mojang and Minecraft
It matters because the game WOULD have been released as a multiplatfotm and secondly this is very unlike a timed exclusive or a preplanned exclusivity. This is unhealthy competition since all the noise started on one console and suddenly someone saw it as an opportunity to use that human psychology to damage and bully a competitor, simply because they have the money to buy them out.
Yes I would have prefered not to be released at all if this is the case. There are millions of consumers who had high hopes to play this game, who have been prepared psychologically for it, who have tried it on PS4, hyped for it, only to tell them no you cant have it and later "hey MS is exploiting all this mindfuck to further screw with your expectations and your buying behaviour because they saw it as an opportunity".
I dont think the game was 80% finished or that MS will shove in billions. But if there is some truth to it MS would probably be giving a lot less to be made as an exclusive
edit: this is probably a BS rumor also made by someone to raise expectations for MS at E3
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Okay for the most part, but I am not sure what you mean by unhealthy competition...
I mean, the events were like this -excuse me if I am wrong-: the project was definitively cancelled, it was a multiplatform game that was to be shown on the PS4 as most games these days and a demo (PT is not Silent Hills afaik, but it was related) was published. The demo got chopped because Del Toro and the development team couldn't complete the game, no money. Kojima is unemployed now because Konami bullies him, and he is very talented --well, I never likd the lengthy cinematics of his games, but the guy is very talented nonetheless.
This leads me to believe that Kojima is going to be in the E3 alongside Phil Spencer.
edit: I guess that @ThePissartist shares a similar opinion and I see from reading your post where he is coming from, 'cos I was not sure about the core meaning of his post, it sounded cryptic to me.
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Despite the ridiculous price, Minecraft is extremely popular and visible and has a major Internet presence, plus it's not platform exclusive. MS may never get their money back directly from that, but it has wider value. Silent Hills is a niche title and unlikely to shift boxes in a big way, so it'll never make back lots of money. If SH could make billions, Konami wouldn't be selling it.Indeed, but as Shortbread said: Mojang and Minecraft
PT stood for Playable Trailer of upcoming Silent Hills game. It was a reveal teaser trailer.
If Konami were selling the IP, this is just business, if it happens at all. I don't think it's unfair of MS to spend more to secure it - Sony would do the same if they had the money, and buying up studios isn't any different. Sony buying Media Molecule stops non-PS gamers playing LBP, for example. It would only be outrageous if Konami were going to make and release the game cross-platform and then MS waved a billion bucks under their nose asking Konami to sell them the game exclusively. That's far fetched and not worth discussing until some solid evidence of that appears. Until then, this should just be considered as a possible, unlikely, IP buy-out as is normal.
Michellstar
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was it made public the amount payed to adquire GeoW??
that would be a reference point
that would be a reference point
But Silent Hill has the movies and all, while Minecraft doesn't (although it is used for educational purposes and government projects, i.e. English government built the entire British isles with Minecraft) and according to IGN, they need to sell 1,6 million sales at 60$ to break even. Judging from your post it looks like they are overpaying. If that's so, the value I see in it is the name of Kojima and the movies.Despite the ridiculous price, Minecraft is extremely popular and visible and has a major Internet presence, plus it's not platform exclusive. MS may never get their money back directly from that, but it has wider value. Silent Hills is a niche title and unlikely to shift boxes in a big way, so it'll never make back lots of money. If SH could make billions, Konami wouldn't be selling it.
