Eight years after the Silent Hills demo first launched, the particular person answerable for taking PT down from the PSN retailer discusses what occurred.
All of us dearly want we may have seen Hideo Kojima’s tackle Silent Hill (and clearly so does he), however sadly we probably by no means will, outdoors of any footage of PT that is at present on-line. PT was an extremely promising demo, and now resulting from its cancellation is not even downloadable for those who owned it at any cut-off date. And now the very one that had it taken down from the PSN has spoken concerning the state of affairs.
On the time of PT’s launch, Pearl L. was Konami’s first-party lead, and took to Twitter to speak fairly overtly about some behind the scenes occasions concerning PT, although has since made their account non-public.
“Enjoyable reality: since I used to be the [first-party] lead on the time at Konami, I helped get this product arrange on the storefronts, pretend writer and every thing,” tweeted Pearl L (thanks VGC). “And I used to be the one who needed to name Sony and ask them to take it down and block redownloads. That was a brilliant enjoyable dialog.”
Pearl responded to a commenter asking if the state of affairs was “awkward,” saying “Awkward is true! We might already gone via rather a lot to get it arrange, received loads of operational exceptions. After which so as to add the request to dam redownload? Extra engineering workarounds. It was thrilling to see individuals hype about it and see the work repay! However in a manner additionally not.”
A part of the preliminary thriller surrounding PT was that it was supposedly developed by a studio known as 7780s Studio, a pseudonym setup to cover the very fact it was really a brand new Silent Hill sport.
The entire state of affairs was extremely messy, and clearly led to Kojima’s departure from Konami to kind his personal studio, the unsubtley named Kojima Productions. At the very least Kojima received his want to put Norman Reedus in a sport.