Silent Hill: Homecoming’s Japanese Release Canceled

It looks like Silent Hill: Homecoming will not be making its way to Japan. Konami writes this on the official Japanese website, “Please look forward to future titles in the series“. Ouch, it looks like Konami wasn’t too happy with Homecomings sales. Silent Hill: Homecoming was developed by Double Helix and released last year with minimal success. We didn’t find it being a bad game when we reviewed it but it’s release was overlooked by non Silent Hill fans. The series latest sequel won’t be making it’s way back home after all.

Silent Hill: Homecoming EU first day sales

VGchartz has collated their data for the week ending Feb 27th 2009 which includes the European first day sales for Silent Hill: Homecoming. According to their data it sold 24,901 copies on the PlayStation 3 and 22,951 on Xbox 360 which makes the total sales at around 410,000 units sold worldwide. Whether this is enough to please Konami, after they commented on a possible Silent Hill 6 stating they would consider it if Silent Hill: Homecoming was “a success”, or even to break even is uncertain, however overall they are pretty alright sales and will hopefully be enough.

As always however, take VGchartz’s numbers with a grain of salt.

Source: VGChartz

Silent Hill: Homecoming enters UK chart at no.11

After making the horrible marketing choice of releasing Silent Hill: Homecoming on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on the same day that Killzone 2 and Halo Wars were released, it hasn’t performed all that badly. According to Chart Track, SHH has entered the all format UK chart in 11th place, which is pretty much what we expected after it’s mediocre reception. More details after the jump.

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Silent Hill Homecoming PC To Receive Patch

For those who do not know, Silent Hill Homecoming for the PC is littered with bugs. Numerous bugs were some how not squashed in the testing process and many fans were displeased. Rejoice!, for Konami has now announced a patch to finally fix the issues that plague the game.

Source (Thanks Tanshaydar)

Silent Hill: Homecoming EU released today

Silent Hill: Homecoming was finally released today in Europe. Our review code has no changes as far as I can see in comparison to the US release. A lot of the problems in the US version still remain, and sadly the PlayStation 3 version does not have trophies.

Silent Hill: Homecoming was released on 30th September 2008 in the US, and has made 210,000 copies on Xbox 360 and 160,000 on the PlayStation 3 giving a grand total of 370,000 sales (US Only). We’ll report any European numbers as they come.

If you’re on the fence about buying Silent Hill: Homecoming, check out our US review.

You could have been Adam in Homecoming DLC

Double Helix originally looked into having “lost episode” downloadable content for Silent Hill: Homecoming according to the UGO Game’s Blog. Sadly, after looking at a “cost/benefit ratio” the idea of DLC was dropped. However, one of their ideas included the events concerning Adam Shepherd and the cult before Alex’s return to Shepherd’s Glenn. This certainly would have been interesting but sadly will never see the light of day. Read the full quote from the interview with Jason Allen after the jump.
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Silent Hill: Homecoming EU site launched

Today Konami have launched the official Europe Silent Hill: Homecoming site in preperation for it’s upcoming release next Friday. The site contains a load of screenshots and videos and also includes a competition in which first prize is an unlocked iPhone 3G with Silent Hill: The Escape pre-installed on it.

>> Konami Official site (Thanks RedRum)

Akira Yamaoka working on a new game

Silent Hill series composer and Silent Hill 3 producer Akira Yamaoka has spoken with Music4Games about Silent Hill: Homecoming’s reception and his current projects. He feels as though Silent Hill: Homecoming was not well recieved because “lacked the feel of the Silent Hill series”, and also believes that Silent Hill “have Japanese blood or a sense which only Japanese people have and can depict” when questioned on wether or not the Silent Hill franchise will remain in the hands of Americans or return to its roots in Japan. From that he thinks that future Silent Hill titles will be developed in both the US and Japan.

Among his opinons on the latest Silent Hill release, he also was asked about his current projects in which he responded “I’d love to talk about it, but at this point I can only say that I’m currently working on a new game.”

What this game is remains a mystery, but he hopes to announce it this year. Let’s hope it’s something worth being excited about!

Source: Music4Games (Thanks, SegaSonic!)

Australian Silent Hill Homecoming Edited

We all know that Australia’s classification system OFLC is a pain to get by but Silent Hill has gotten passed it. But not without loosing some Mature content. Silent Hill Homecoming’s cutscenes have been edited and new camera angles added to reduce the contents extreme nature. Silent Hill Homecoming is now rated a teen friendly MA15+.

Silent Hill Homecoming Australian ban lifted.

Australia’s strict video game rating system has been banned a few titles this past year. Shellshock 2: Blood Trails, Silent Hill: Homecoming, Dark Sector, F.E.A.R 2: Project Origin, and Fallout 3 were all refused the maximum MA15+ rating. Silent Hill Homecoming has found its way out of ratings limbo and has been given the countries max rating.