Keiichiro Toyama, the creator of Silent Hill and last year’s action-horror title Slitterhead, said in a new Famitsu interview that his studio, Bokeh Game Studio, has begun early development on an unannounced game. Toyama emphasized that the project will not be a sequel to Slitterhead and involves the entire team, putting the studio’s earlier ambition to pursue multiple smaller titles on hold. Toyama acknowledged that Slitterhead did not reach as broad an audience as hoped, attributing the shortfall partly to market confusion over whether it was a horror or an action game. Nonetheless, he described the release as a creative success for Bokeh’s relatively young staff and said commercial performance was never the sole objective. Now 55, Toyama said he is conscious of the need to "pass the baton to the next generation" but plans to remain hands-on with the new game. The veteran designer left Sony in 2020 to establish Bokeh with former colleagues from the Gravity Rush and Puppeteer teams, aiming to create original IPs without the constraints of a large-budget publisher.