Konami is an interesting beast of a company. Some may say it doesn’t know its head from its ass, and to those people I say… Maybe. You see, the problems began long before Kojima left/ was fired from the company some weeks back. Those troubles are highlighted by two major projects that Kojima himself was a part of, and two of the biggest for Konami as a publisher/developer.
While the company dropped a $40 –down to $30 after backlash– glorified demo for Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain that takes less than an hour to complete –no, I don’t consider needless padding part of the price tag– Konami also released the amazingly tense playable teaser for P.T. Cute naming scheme aside, Konami gave the world something truly unique to pitch the next Silent Hill game, Silent Hills. The boys in the naming department must have burnt the midnight oil coming up with that winner.
Not only was it rightfully scary, but the damn thing was free and not even billed as a Silent Hills teaser. It wasn’t until someone figured out how to beat it and posted the hidden away ending online did we know what it really was. The P.T. demo was so good that I would have easily paid a few buck for it. Not only that, but you had a new team headed up by Hideo Kojima and Guillermo DelToro working on the project.
Fast forward to today and things look very different in the land of Konami. Not only is Kojima gone, but now it seems that P.T. may have gone up in smoke. The games website says the following on the matter:
The distribution period of ‘P.T. (Playable Teaser)’ on PlayStation Store will expire on Wednesday, April 29, 2015.
Sure, this doesn’t exactly confirm that P.T. is no more, but if not then Konami has no reason to pull the demo. Doing so would only alienate fans from getting to experience not only a cool teaser, but a pretty cool game in and of itself. We will keep you updated as more news develops.
Via: (Eurogamer)
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