...Remember all of those jokes about Konami limiting Silent Hill's future to pachinko machines? Well,

I mean I guess it isn't really that surprising, but... The worst part of it all is they decided to use Silent Hill 2 of all the games to saturate with a bunch of flashing shit and out of place metal music. It all at least looks pretty ridiculous and for all I know may be a bloody fantastic pachinko machine... Still, pour one out for Silent Hill. Hopefully in a few years time somebody will get around to kickstarting a classic not-Silent Hill game. They're already developing a PT spiritual successor after all.

In my restless dreams... I see that machine... Silent Hill.

...You promised to pull the lever someday...but you never did.

I want a Hideo Kojima directed Pachinko machine.

This is what we deserve.

Killing a beloved franchise ain't no big deal...just pull the lever and...pow!

Look at the value: Pandemic Zone. Super Night Mare Rush. Escape Challenge. SUPER BIG BONUS. Creature Panic. Experience it all!

Silent Hill Pachinko Machine Red Band Trailer (Directed and Edited by Konami).

I don't want to play a haunted pachinko machine!

Jim Sterling did a nice video on that thing (and Konami).

HIT THE LEVER

Jesus Christ, this is just fucking embarrassing. I see that Konami have virtually no interest in trying to restore any good will with consumers. What a shithole of a company.

No, this can't be real. It must be a troll made or something.

... It must be!

That is the most intense ad for a slot machine I've ever seen in my life. Slot machines are hot garbage, so it was the most intense ad for hot garbage ever.

Wow I just watched a 7 minute trailer for a fucking slot machine........

Man, I'm not even a Silent Hill fan and this is super shitty. This is horrible!

scared kids??

lol, something inside of me wants this to end up a giant kojima troll on an epic scale and when TPP comes out Silent hills drops and Kojima productions members hop out a birthday cake....

As someone who puts Silent Hill 2 as one of my favorite games of all time, I find this to be fucking pathetic. Harry Mason and James Sunderland (depending on which ending you get) must be spinning in their graves... Konami is officially dead... I plan to buy Metal Gear 5 used so Gamestop will get my $50 and not Konami.

Eviru Eyeru makes everything ok though, that and the Superu Nightomeru Rushu

I think some of you might be underestimating just how many (video game) franchises have pachinko/pachislot releases.

Fatal Fury: https://youtu.be/WdfKy-rja2IRE: https://youtu.be/QSO07qBxQnQ
Tekken: https://youtu.be/Yll-G4FRymw
Mystical Ninja Goemon: https://youtu.be/ca81J85A75w
Shin Megami Tensei: https://youtu.be/A-qxMwfbbeI
Persona 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a4s9he5zx8
Viewtiful Joe: https://youtu.be/lErtpA2lyuM
Samurai Shodown: https://youtu.be/cm7xcfsYkEQ
King of Fighters: https://youtu.be/0rYg5cyfWTI
Bayonetta: http://www.sammy.co.jp/japanese/product/pachislot/2015/bayonetta/
Castlevania: https://youtu.be/UN0Te7uTi7o
Metal Slug: https://youtu.be/V0hAk_nJKGw
etc.

Sega Sammy, SNK Playmore, Capcom and Konami are all big on them.

The problem here is not that these things exist (although Silent Hill is a pretty ill-fitting franchise to make a pachislot out of) but that Konami is dumping the video games in favour of stuff like this.

I just want them to twist the knife a little further and make a PT Pachislot machine.

@hassun: yep... at least sega, capcom etc have some sort of decency and respect for their stuff and the gaming industry... konami just seriously don't give a fuck

They just know that whatever bad blood they might get with the gaming industry it won't make a dent on the ridiculous revenue they make with this crap.

Excuse me, I don P.T. was far longer than 7 minutes.


(that trailer was scarier than P.T. could have ever been.)

Ha, and this one's 9 minutes! It's weird how it's intermixed with original CG and cutscenes lifted straight from the remake. Also, Jill's wearing her RE3 outfit! Non-canonnnnnn!!! Now, to be fair, all of the added garish doesn't seem so out of place with a Resident Evil-themed pachinko machine than it does a Silent Hill one.

@hassun: I shouldn't be surprised that this exists, but there's a Shadow Hearts: Covenant pachislot machine.

This is unsurprising.

@donutfever: *slow clap*

I don't know why I watched over four minutes of that.

What a 180 from the series' promising return.

New creative leads! JK trapped in pachinko hell forever.

Pachinko machines based on video games and anime are nothing new. I've seen Fist of the North Star, Street Fighter, Mega Man, and all kinds of other stuff. It's been a number of years since I've been to Japan, but I'd say they were pretty widespread in the Pachinko parlors I visited.

Honestly, I think people are overreacting to all of this Konami stuff. From a business standpoint they make very little money on console games. So of course they are going to invest in Pachinko machines and mobile gaming. Its only smart business. I mean, from a consumer perspective in the west sure, it sucks because that is the context almost all westerners know Konami.

I kinda want to play it after watching that.

EVIL SHUTTER!

@demoskinos: That is not the problem with Konami. The problems are that they are a nightmare company to work for, make completely boneheaded business decisions when it comes to video games and public image and that they treat their (rich catalogue of) IPs incredibly poorly.
You can argue that they just want to get out of video games altogether and squeeze the IPs they have dry before leaving and burning the house down behind them but they would do well to realise who built that house in the first place.

@hassun: The working conditions thing I would say yeah, could be an actual concern. But all the rest of that I think is just westerners again looking at them at being solely a video game company which they aren't and never were. When the company was founded they sold and repaired jukeboxes and have had their finger in dozens of other peripheral business since then. If they are making money selling these Silent Hill Arcade machines to various parlors then I don't see how that is a poor use of the IP. Especially again, when you're looking at this through a business lens.

Featuring controllable Norman Reedus!

@demoskinos: They've made incredibly poor decisions from a business lens.

@hassun: The company as a whole seems healthy.

@demoskinos: Profits are down, they delisted themselves from the NY stock exchange, they seem to be shrinking back towards Japan/Asia instead of having a more global presence.
Again, not saying they're in dire straits or anything. It just seems to me like it's a lot of strip mining right now. Short term profits at the cost of long term sustainability. And if they want to get out of video games, that's their choice. But they could be doing much smarter things with their video game IP library than they are doing now. Both in terms of profits and in terms of preserving their legacy.

Can we determine if it's a crime that I may be unable to listen to the Edit: IT'S PROMISE, WHOOPS without hearing...

HIT THE LEVER

Ever again? Because that seems like a fucking crime...

No mention of the erotic violence castlevania one yet? I thought that was one of the more hilarious/sad ones.

@lestephan: It was mentioned. (But the RE one has been mentioned twice as well so eh.)

@hassun: Oops my bad, I see it now, you posted it in that list with all those links. I kinda assumed it was the non boobie castlevania one (from 2007 or 2008) as you were talking about how much this stuff has already been going on.

I'd play that.