Konami says GC port of Silent Hill unlikely due to demographics. Don't they realize there have to be mature games on the system in order to attract adults to it?

[Manshoon]

<div style='font: 14pt "Times New Roman", Modern; text-align: left; '><b>Link:</b> <a href="http://cube.ign.com/news/32859.html">bleh..</a>

Konami says GC port of Silent Hill unlikely due to demographics. Don't they realize there have to be mature games on the system in order to attract adults to it?</div>

[Don]

<div style='font: 12pt Modern; text-align: left; '>Look at the best sellers in Japan, like DQ Monsters, Yugioh, and Pokemon. Hardly the kind of stuff you expect your older gamer to be playing, and they sell *lots* and is cheap to develop, at least compared to a console game.</div>

[Gilder]

<div style='font: 12pt Modern; text-align: left; '>Actually, there IS some sort of Silent Hill game for Gameboy Advance in the workd</div>

[Manshoon]

<div style='font: 14pt "Times New Roman", Modern; text-align: left; '>I saw that first post of yours....don't know why you deleted it.</div>

[Manshoon]

<div style='font: 14pt "Times New Roman", Modern; text-align: left; '>Still, there's no reason Nintendo can't try to branch out to the older crowd. Sony might get lucky and become a hit among younger gamers.</div>

[S.Cody2]

<div style='font: 10pt "Copperplate Gothic", Modern; text-align: left; '>Yes there is. It's not a guaranteed market. Nintendo lives on blood-sucking the parents principally, and it hasn't failed yet.</div>

[Gilder]

<div style='font: 12pt Modern; text-align: left; '>Because I didn't feel like bashing Microsoft =)</div>

[Torgo]

<div style='font: 9pt Arial, Modern; text-align: left; '>True, espacially since they greenlighted games like Resident Evil 2 and Conker's Bad Fur day. Hell, there's even a new RE in development for the GC. Why scrap Silent Hill?</div>

[Gilder]

<div style='font: 12pt Modern; text-align: left; '>A Sweeter deal, *sniff sniff* something smells like Microsoft,</div>