All silent on the hills after Konami split
It’s also the only code Konami seems to honour these days. Recently, the Japanese developer abruptly announced that it was cancelling Silent Hills, the game jointly designed by Hideo Kojima and film director Guillermo del Toro. There were no concrete reasons given for the move, but it follows rumours that Kojima has been frozen out at Konami HQ and will part ways with the company once Metal Gear Solid: The Phantom Pain is released in September.
Konami has even removed the Kojima Productions logo from all promotional material for Phantom Pain and deleted the Silent Hills demo from the PlayStation Store, a scorched-earth tactic that even Metal Gear Ray would be hard pressed to top. No one will admit it, but it looks like ‘creative differences’ are behind the split, with Konami deciding to focus on mobile content over consoles, and Kojima unhappy with the direction the company is taking.
