Team Cherry announced that Hollow Knight sequel Silksong will launch on PlayStation 4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Switch, Switch 2, and PC on September 4, 2025. The announcement disrupted release calendars for numerous indie developers and publishers who had planned launches around the same time. Many studios have publicly delayed their games to avoid direct competition with Silksong, a phenomenon now referred to as being "Silksong'd" or "Silksonged." The clustering of new release dates after Silksong creates potential congestion as delayed titles collide with each other. Some developers may gain unexpected publicity by announcing delays tied to Silksong.
Last week, after years and years of waiting, we finally got a release date for Hollow Knight: Silksong. The highly anticipated 2D action platformer is out next week, which is exciting for fans, but it is proving to be a problem for a number of indie studios that were planning to release their own games around that time. A bunch of games are being delayed to avoid Silksong.
On August 21, Team Cherry announced that its Hollow Knight sequel, Silksong, will launch on PlayStation 4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Switch, Switch 2, and PC on September 4. That blew up the schedules for a number of indie devs and publishers who had staked out a release date around that time and were now suddenly competing directly with what will likely be one of the biggest games of 2025.
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