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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?
PostPosted:Wed Mar 28, 2001 11:19 pm
by 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>
Gameboy lives well enough on children
PostPosted:Wed Mar 28, 2001 11:34 pm
by 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>
PostPosted:Thu Mar 29, 2001 12:40 am
by 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>
PostPosted:Thu Mar 29, 2001 2:08 am
by 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>
PostPosted:Thu Mar 29, 2001 2:12 am
by 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>
PostPosted:Thu Mar 29, 2001 6:47 am
by 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>
PostPosted:Thu Mar 29, 2001 12:47 pm
by Gilder
<div style='font: 12pt Modern; text-align: left; '>Because I didn't feel like bashing Microsoft =)</div>
PostPosted:Thu Mar 29, 2001 1:38 pm
by 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>
PostPosted:Fri Mar 30, 2001 1:29 am
by Gilder
<div style='font: 12pt Modern; text-align: left; '>A Sweeter deal, *sniff sniff* something smells like Microsoft,</div>