>>11862724
>All indications is that it undersold expectations compared to the first one (you expect sequels to sell more and build an audience)
>>11866064
>The sales were lower than the first game.
We don't actually know that. All we know is that the sales in Japan were slower than of the first game per Ito himself and that it sold 1 million copies on PS2 alone in just the first month which is not accounting for the sales on PC or Xbox, the latter of which sold well enough to become a Platinum Hits re-release 2 years later.

Also keep in mind that Konami never published sales for SH1 either, those numbers came from Sato's online resume. We know that SH3 and SH4 sold less than 400K on both PS2 and Xbox because they never got Greatest Hits or Platinum Hits re-releases on either platform and SH3 was never ported to Xbox to begin with.

According to Konami's own website, the Silent Hill series has sold a combined total of 11.5 million since the first game. From the official and unofficial published sales numbers for individual titles that gives us only 5.3 million. That's a lot of unaccounted for sales still missing and most of them can probably safely be assumed to belong primarily to the first two titles.

https://www.konami.com/corporate/en/business/digitalentertainment.html