Dusk Golem redeemed (again)?
Anyway yeah, pretty much 90% sure it's a Sony team, probably Japan Studio. Given a couple of SH alumni left there a few months ago tho, the game must be nearing completion by now.
I'm genuinely interested to see more on it; Silent Hill 2 hit pretty hard back in the day and is a masterpiece of survival-horror to this day.
I'm saying i'm rooting for capcom because they have the necessary experience in horror game development and i like the direction they went with the Resident Evil series as a whole.
Would it make sense? From a business side i don't know. However in my opinion it would, as Resident Evil village is nearing its release and maybe they want to try their hands on the silent hill IP....
It could be anyone really. Rumors of Sony doing it have been around for a while.
Hell it could even be fucking From Software because miyazaki said they were developing a "weird" game. Who knows
The type of survival-horror Capcom is known for is
VERY different from the type of survival-horror that put Silent Hill on the map, though. Just because Capcom has experience in the genre doesn't mean they're a best fit for every single property in the genre.
Resident Evil has
always been the cheesier, campier brother to the more high-concept, artsy psychological horror of Silent Hill. Comparing them to the Alien films, Silent Hill would be the Alien to Resident Evil's Aliens. Or just to horror movies in general, Resident Evil would be the Deep Rising/Deep Blue Sea to Silent Hill's Jacob's Ladder.
So while Capcom have the tech and certainly have a great team for survival-horror I don't think they have a team for the specific type of survival-horror you need for a proper Silent Hill game (especially one to match up with the best entries in the IP i.e the first 3 games).
That was years ago.
My two cents...
Capcom would just turn it to Resident Evil.
Square canāt do horror.
From would turn it into an action game and it wouldnāt be scary enough.
SEGA, lol
Namco, lol
Koei Tecmo could possibly pull it off but it would still be worse than if Kojima did it like with PT.
TBF, SEGA did make Alien Isolation, which probably matches a bit better tonally with Silent Hill than Resident Evil (in terms of the psychological horror component). Outside of that though they haven't done a lot in survival-horror aside from older games like Deep Fear (which they should've turned into a longer-running IP tbh) and Blue Stinger, or HOTD Scarlet Dawn (which doesn't mesh well with a Silent Hill-type of vibe).
Really the only possible fit is Japan Studio; IIRC the guy who created Ico and SOTC even started working on the original Silent Hill and also at WARP (RIP Kenji Eno). There's an artistic element to those games and Last Guardian that could work REALLY well for a modern Silent Hill if married with more of the survival-horror style SH is known for.
Japan Studio are the best fit in all honesty but that also means it'll be a PS5 exclusive (and maybe a PC port in the cards).