Silent Hill f Sold 1 Million Copies in a Day, Konami Says Achievement 'Reinforces the Series' Status as an Iconic Horror Franchise'

Silent Hill f — the latest mainline, if standalone, summation to Konami's decades-old fearfulness bid — has sold implicit 1 cardinal copies crossed carnal and integer income successful conscionable a azygous day.

Publisher Konami confirmed the quality via a property connection and connected the Japanese-language Silent Hill X / Twitter page, thanking "everyone who played" for exceeding 1 cardinal shipped copies conscionable a time aft its September 25 debut.

"This accomplishment reinforces the series’ presumption arsenic an iconic fearfulness franchise that continues to resonate with fans yearning for an unsettling intelligence fearfulness experience," Konami said. "Through the lens of Silent Hill f, players dive into a haunting communicative by Ryukishi07 based connected a 'beautiful yet horrifying' creator vision."

It's large quality for fans of the fearfulness series, proving that the occurrence of Silent Hill 2 Remake — which likewise sold 1 cardinal copies wrong days but took until January to surpass 2 cardinal income — was not a one-off for steadfast Konami.

Silent Hill f takes america to 1960s Japan, wherever we travel Hinako Shimizu, a teen struggling nether the unit of expectations from her friends, family, and society. IGN's Silent Hill f reappraisal returned a 7/10. We said: "Silent Hill f presents a caller fresh mounting to research and a fascinatingly acheronian communicative to unravel, but its melee-focussed combat takes a large plaything that doesn’t rather land."

Silent Hill f modders person already gotten down to business. And portion immoderate assistance boost the acquisition by tweaking motor performance, adhd successful ray tracing, oregon supply localization efforts and HUD removal, others adhd successful cheats, springiness Hinako a Shibito-inspired makeover, and region the game's fog.

In lawsuit you're wondering, no, Silent Hill f is not a sequel to immoderate of the existing Silent Hill games, truthful you tin play it adjacent if you've ne'er jumped into a Silent Hill crippled before. Instead, it offers a standalone communicative "independent from the series." And arsenic for whether it's a soulslike? It’s a question the Silent Hill fandom has been debating for immoderate clip now. But successful a caller interrogation with IGN, Konami insisted it's not, and expressed a grade of vexation with the ongoing debate.

Vikki Blake is simply a newsman for IGN, arsenic good arsenic a critic, columnist, and advisor with 15+ years acquisition moving with immoderate of the world's biggest gaming sites and publications. She's besides a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually High Chaos. Find her astatine BlueSky.