Silksong’s Release Is Hammering Steam, Xbox, Playstation, And Nintendo Stores

Hollow Knight: Silksong launched today, and instantly afterward nan awesome video crippled storefronts were struggling to enactment online. Shortly after Silksong’s 10 AM ET merchandise time, Steam, nan Nintendo eShop, Xbox, and PlayStation stores each displayed correction messages aliases grounded to load entirely.

Hollow Knight: Silksong is 1 of nan astir anticipated indie releases successful caller memory. Its gravitational propulsion has been truthful strong, respective different indie games releasing astir nan aforesaid clip arsenic Silksong announced delays to get retired of its way. Compounding nan feverish anticipation is that Team Cherry is trading Silksong for fundamentally thing — it’ll only costs $20 successful an situation wherever big-time publishers are floating $80 and $90 caller releases.

The hype for Silksong has besides been a boon to nan original Hollow Knight. In nan days earlier Silksong’s release, Hollow Knight has gotten a important bump connected nan Steam charts, boasting its highest concurrent subordinate count ever, 7 years aft its merchandise successful 2017. Silksong has already beaten Hollow Knight’s record, arsenic SteamDB reports location are complete 100,000 concurrent players. That number will only turn arsenic players proceed to trickle successful arsenic Steam and nan different gaming storefronts commencement functioning usually again.