Silent Hill 5 interview ... if PS3 sells, it could be exclusive

Finally, it looks like Silent Hill 5 is bursting forth from the loins of Konami and scaring the bejeezus out of people. No, we don't have any screenshots and yes, we made all of that up, but we do have an interview with one of the creative minds behind the game. Masashi Tsuboyama, chief director, answers some questions in the latest Electric Shock magazine.

Go to the site for the points of interest and the rest of the article.

[ErcsYou]

konami and sony .... building hype together

@ sevir04... i meant this in a good way. im happy that konami is thinking excusives. they have been so hush hush lately that it seems like sony is laying down the law..

[Sevir04]

team ninja, and square , and free radical, Ubi, and EA. so go figure dude, developers are seeing it's power and though it's a hard to work for, the learning curve after it's been clears shows incredible feats. Haze, and Ninja Gaiden Sigma to show what i mean...

but enough i'm not here to SH5 wont stand againt RE5 so i'll just put that out, i'd still like to see what they are gonna look like

[THWIP]

Well , we might as well chalk it up as multiplatform then. :/

[bung tickler]

i actually laughed at that, out loud. "+" bubble for you sir.

[nice_cuppa]

GETTING VERY OLD VERY FAST !

if your game is exclusive just say it is and move on.....
i hate this cheap alternative hype generation pap !

WOW LOOKS LIKE SOMEONE LIKES IT !?!?!?........................ ........?

[jwatt]

The ps3 better get the selling. I'm actually going to buy my ps3 after I get done with the Halo beta which is sometime in June.

[IBLEEDBLU]

go have ur milk and cookies with ur mom u stupid kid.

Sevir04 said it best - more and more dev are stating the samething and im telling u rite now that MS is gonna screw all the elite and prem 360 fans by launching a new console in 2 years because of the stupid idea of going DVD9

end of 2007 PS3 sales will be close to 8million or over

end of 2008 PS3 will be on top and MS will be in 3rd

u sheep know its coming just look at the 1st year games for the PS3 - just open ur eyes and look....and games like MGS - FF series & the soon to be dominate one killzone2 will ruin anything on the 360...ur halo3 is a joke..i can go to the flea market buy a xbox1 and play halo2 and there u go same sh@t as halo3 but im a sheep let me go waste 400 bucks on a 360 to play the same game with slightly better graphics oh wait have to drop another 10.99 for a towel because ill be palying many hrs and the 3 red rings will come...lol what a bunch of dumb ppl

jwatt - welcome to the smart ppl club lol

***EDIT***

Honeal2g - first KZ game wasnt shAt u tard bag...they just couldnt do what they wanted with the PS2 hardware - have u noticed that KZ liberation got a 9.2?

halo is all u xbots have lol the 1st was great and now ur just hanging on 2 a pathic game - halo2 was a let down and halo3 is even bigger - some1 at bungie should tell them this is NEXT-GEN area..i think they 4got while making halo3 because its pretty much the same game lol and lets base the final chapter on the brute lol are u kidding me - the brute lol - sony games arent as deep? its been 6 months man wake up u retard lol look at the xbox360 its been out 2 years and what do u have?? gears lol that dark/short lets only have 3 people on screen game lol - its been 7 months and ppl still ref to " u sony ppl talk ill go play some gears" meaning 360 has garbage out rite now lol

so b4 u call some1 an idiot - i know its hard 4 u but try to think then type..ok..ok good

bloody diarrhea - with a name like that im pretty sure ur a normal kid hahahaa buts its okie u couldnt take a bubble from me...so not waste that saying of urs - i took one of urs lol

bloodmask - clearly ur rite that tech gets out dated quickly - ud have to be a cave man for u 2 not think that but if u think ur PC is more power then the Cell ur a idiot. the PS3 design makes it power - its how its used that makes it not out dated -

[Honeal2g]

wow good job making ur self look like an idiot Killzone2??? r u kiddin me why make a second if the first one was TRash .... yes ps3 is probably better like xbox was to ps2 .but this time around sony's game portfolio isnt as deep .. they are coming out with more original games which yes is kool but runs the risk of failure ....still both systems are nice ...and as for your comment about halo3 ...keep telling ur self that aand when it become the fastest selling game bringing in the most revenue in 24 hours we'll see if "halo 3 is a joke"

[bung tickler]

IBLEEDBLU you sir are a tool id take a bubble from you but well you dont have any left to take.

[socomnick]

Why is Ibleedblu so loyal to sony is it because he spent 600 dollars on a system that is doing very poorly so he has to psych himself into thinking its superior to make his investment worthwhile. So he bashes others that don't agree with him and then daydreams in a land with fairies and unicorns and a land where killzone 2 will be a good game.

[Phantom_Lee]

another article about the same interview as the old ones...
so much for NEWs....

[Lord Anubis]

this game really need uncompressed 7.1 sound. And lots and lots of night lamps, well the night lamps for me.

[Bathyj]

By this time next year Userbase wont even be an issue and devs will just develope for the machine that suits their needs. Exclusives will make a comeback next year. Mark my words. Remember a game only need to sell a million or two to be a big hit. It will be less about the userbase and more about the quality of the game, since a high quality game will sell alot of copies once the userbase is over 5 million.

[bung tickler]

well it cost a lot more to make games nowadays too so they have to sell more. and on top of that even if the ps3 sell more systems, say 5 million total that still doesn't change the fact that the 360 userbase will be bigger (3 times bigger by then) and xbox owners tend to be much more loose with their money when it comes to buying games as seen by the very high attach rate from both the original xbox and the 360. thats a lot of money to be passing up. but hey maybe their shareholders DON'T like money, who am i to say otherwise.

[Bathyj]

I agree, they need to sell more copies now to break even. My point was simply as the userbases both get over 10 million by the end of the year, or early next year, it wont be such a big factor as it is now. Exclusives will come back again in the next couple years as developer can worry less about whether their game will make money and more about the game itself. That sounds slightly naieve I know but devs are artist and have visions of what they'd like to accomplish. They aren't all concerned only with the dollar. Thats more the publishers domain.

I agree to a point but not 100% about Xbox owners being looser with their money. Sure you have a higher attach rate but thats alot to do with the fact you have more games. I might have more games on PS3 if I hadn't already bought them on Xbox. Its hard to have an attach rate of 5 if there are 2 good games. Its not hard to have 5 if there are 20 good games. If its simply being loose with money why are Xbox owners always complaining about $200?

The other way to look at it is, devs have a chance in the current situtation to either be a small fish in a big pond, or a big fish in a small pond. Haze for example would be killed if it came out the same day as Halo3 on XBox. But if it comes out the same day as Halo on PS3 it might actually do very well. All the PS3 fanboys would gobble it up so they could pretend they dont care about Halo. Being against Halo on a different platform might actually help it.

Anyway thats just another point of view.

[Bloodmask]

developers trying to be sneaky and use propaganda. Just tell it how it is. The only ones who get excited are the 13 year old fanboys, and you know they don't have 60$ to buy a game. All it does is get their panties in a bunch....

[Blasphemy]

This is not the only developer to claim ps3 has no limitations. Factor 5 said the same thing.

[Bloodmask]

Does that mean there will never be a PS4. The 360 and PS3 are both outdated already by PCs. Do you think technology never advances. You are a marketers dream. By the way, the world is flat because factor five told me.

[X]

Regardless of whether or not it is exclusive, I look forward to playing silent hill 5.

[Funky Town_TX]

Make the darn game exclusive if you want to. I'm getting tired of Dev / Pub thinking that gamers need to kiss their a$$. I'm sure millions of gamers will game without SH.

Why does every dev have to make a case for the PS3. WTF is going on. If the game is good it will sell. You can put it on thew 360, the Wii, or the PS3. Good games sell. As for installed base on the PS3. I have yet to see a PS3 or a PS2 title hit 30% of the user base. I sure hope they get a return on their investment.

[nice_cuppa]

im up at comment 4.
i guess we agree !

[Silver360]

They want to make it exclusive let them deal with the consequences. Just stop the BS. Man we all need a break from this crap. As a 13 year old might say if they love the PS3 so much then marry it.(dumb comment) but these dumb articles need to go. They are just trying to stir up hype by getting fanboys to fight over their game.

[Close_Second]

...that can stay a PS3 exclusive as far as I'm concerned. Apart from some very freaky visuals the gameplay has gotten pretty stale, i.e. the visuals have matured but the puzzles have not.

[Rockstar]

Is this guy on crack?

Any game like this WILL sell systems, no doubt.

[Uganda64]

I agree that exclusives will make a comeback. The costs won't be high forever and I would think at the most, an ordinary game could cost 45 million (over the top exaggeration) that game would have to sell 1 million to be successful, and with 10 million units out there, that'll be easy, especially since we assume the 45 million has gone into making the game good.

[kamakazi]

this game wont be out till some time next year, PS3 userbase will grow this coming summer/fall when the good games begin to roll in, and the holiday season. wether it goes multi a can careless, i am a huge fan of the game but can never really sit through them, but watching my younger bro play through the games is cool, he loves SILENT HILL games.

[Quicksilva]

Whatever format you put this game on make sure its bloody good PLEEEASE!!!!!

(no pun intended)

[CrazzyMan]

anyway, really doesn`t matter, if ps3 will be a leading platform. =)

[tony]

who cares. the last silent hill i played was a piece of junk anyways.

[tehcellownu]

well i dont see silent hill 5 comin out till next year..so it have a big chance of being exclusive..

[THE TRUTH]

I could careless if the game is exclusive or not but what has catch my eye is the positive words Konami has express about the PS3 hardware:

Masashi Tsuboyama, chief director, answers some questions in the latest Electric Shock magazine. Here are the points of interest:

Konami and the team behind Silent Hill have looked at the current consoles and concluded they all have limitations that hamper their ideas for the game and delay progress. Except the PlayStation 3.

No multiplatform plans as of yet. But the sales of PS3 are slow so they may have to reconsider later on down the road if things appear dismal. Which of course means delayed progress and not taking advantage of the PS3's power.

Tsuboyama claims Blu-ray will be a very necessary asset in their development of the game.

The PS3, he says, is tough to work with, but when they get used to it, the processing power will be far beyond the other consoles.

[lil bush]

we'll just have to see than............