You’ll have to wait an entire year if you want to play the Silent Hill 2 remake on a console that isn’t a PS5

And that’s if the game does come to other platforms at all.

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If you’re a Silent Hill 2 fan, but you’ve moved onto Xbox since the PS2 days, you’re going to have to wait a whole year before it releases on the PS5 rival.

It’s not very long until Bloober Team’s remake of Silent Hill 2 is out, but much like the original version of the game, when it does launch it will be a PS5 console exclusive (PC players will be able to play it day and date). The Silent Hill series obviously feels much more like it belongs on PlayStation , given that the first game launched on the PS1, though in the following years it did come to various Xbox consoles - including Silent Hill 2, which later made it to the original Xbox with the subtitle Inner Fears.

But like a lot of third-party PlayStation exclusives these days, Sony only seems to be buying exclusivity for around a year, as in a recent trailer for the game it was noted that the Silent Hill 2 remake is “not available on other formats until” October 8, 2025.

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As a reminder, October 8, 2024 is the Silent Hill 2 remake’s release date, so that exclusivity lasts exactly one year. And considering that the remake is coming to PC at launch, those “other formats” obviously mean Xbox. That also technically isn’t a confirmation that the game will be coming to Xbox exactly a year after it does on PlayStation, it does seem like those announcements typically come a little bit after the exclusivity deal runs out, but considering one of Bloober Team’s more recent games, The Medium , was an Xbox Series X/S exclusives (if just for a few months), it’s probably a safe bet that it’ll come eventually.

Our own Kelsey got to go hands-on with the remake last month, and much to their own surprise, actually came away from it feeling that it’s really quite good .

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