Konami's had a banner year, with big releases from both Metal Gear Solid and Silent Hill. With the former, we got the long-awaited remake of the third game in Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, and a brand new installment in Silent Hill f for the latter.
Both have done well critically and, as a new financial report states, commercially. In a round-up for March through September of this year, the publisher notes that both games crossed the threshold of one million "initial sales" globally. In other words, they launched incredibly strongly.
There’s a small note on f's conception, stating the idea was to make something "beautiful yet horrifying." The use of 1960s Japan and more plant-based monsters, the game lives up to that description. Even though it's a spin-off canonically, taking place decades before the mainline games and well removed from them geographically, it just goes to show what all that pent-up desire does for a franchise.
Solid Snake's return, then, actually enjoyed one million purchases around the world in just 24 hours. A beloved game, from an S-tier property, remade for modern hardware, is truly an equation for success. The only note given here is, "allows players to enjoy extreme survival stealth action in a jungle setting," and, yep, that is correct.
Coincidentally, Silent Hill f and Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater both take place in the ‘60s. Does this matter? Probably not. But Konami, if you're wondering what to do with Zone of the Enders, maybe consider going retro-futuristic with it.
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