Short answers, pulled from the story.
Hijinx Studios spent more than two years building the Silent Hill HD Collection. The team received incomplete source code from Konami because the original files had not been properly archived.
North America received the game on March 20 while Japan got it on March 29. Europe followed on March 30 and Australia on April 5.
Guy Cihi refused to allow Konami to reuse his voice work for James Sunderland because he believed the company owed him residuals. Troy Baker disputed this claim by arguing that residuals for video game voice acting were unheard of in Japan.
A patch addressing frame rate issues arrived for the PS3 version in July 2012, though the Xbox 360 update was canceled later that year. Audio syncing issues with character animations also drew criticism alongside unupdated subtitles reflecting script changes.
The collection includes Silent Hill 2 and Silent Hill 3 but excludes Silent Hill 4: The Room and other franchise entries. Only the PS3 edition was published in Japan.