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Is the Silent Hill 2 Remake Coming to Xbox?

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Published: Oct 3, 2024 07:39 am

Bloober Team’s Silent Hill 2 remake is just a few days away from releasing on PlayStation and PC. But what about Microsoft’s console? Is the Silent Hill 2 remake coming to Xbox? Here’s the answer.

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Is the Silent Hill 2 Remake Coming to Xbox?

Bloober Team and Konami’s Silent Hill 2 remake is not coming to Xbox until October 8, 2025, if at all. It’s a PlayStation 5 exclusive on console, and while some fans have been grumbling about the characters’ new looks, Sony will be counting on the game to pull players to PS5.

For a while, we were left to guess just how long the game would be a PlayStation exclusive. You can bet that money changed hands and that Konami was given a substantial sum of cash to keep the game that way. However, the game’s “Immersion” trailer, which you can watch below, ends with confirmation that, on console, the game is a PS5 exclusive for a year.

Microsoft is, seemingly, not happy about whatever arrangement Sony does have with certain publishers. That’s according to a statement they released in response to the FTC case (via Windows Central), which states:

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“In addition to having outright exclusive content, Sony has also entered into arrangements with third-party publishers which require the ‘exclusion’ of Xbox… Some prominent examples of these agreements include… the recently announced Silent Hill 2 remastered (Bloober team).”

Does that mean Silent Hill 2 will appear on Xbox? Not necessarily. It means that Konami and Microsoft can choose to release it on Xbox from October 8, 2025 onwards. But they’ll have to decide whether it’s worth doing so; so far, they have not confirmed that it’s coming to Xbox.

So, the answer to whether the Silent Hill 2 remake is coming to Xbox is that it’ll be a PlayStation 5 exclusive until October 8, 2025, after which Konami and Microsoft may choose to put it on Xbox. Until, then, it’s on PC and PlayStation 5.

The above article was updated on 10/3/2024 by the original author to include new information about the Silent Hill 2 remake.

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Chris McMullen is a freelance contributor at The Escapist and has been with the site since 2020. He returned to writing about games following several career changes, with his most recent stint lasting five-plus years. He hopes that, through his writing work, he settles the karmic debt he incurred by persuading his parents to buy a Mega CD. Outside of The Escapist, Chris covers news and more for GameSpew. He's also been published at such sites as VG247, Space, and more. His tastes run to horror, the post-apocalyptic, and beyond, though he'll tackle most things that aren't exclusively sports-based. At Escapist, he's covered such games as Infinite Craft, Lies of P, Starfield, and numerous other major titles.
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