Silksong announced for 2025 on the Nintendo Direct
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Wasn't it among the games shown somewhere where they staded all games shown will be "releasing within a year" well over a year ago?
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Wasn't it among the games shown somewhere where they staded all games shown will be "releasing within a year" well over a year ago?
Xbox did that I think in like 2022-2023
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The fact that they just snuck it into the sizzle reel. blink and you miss it, is so wild.
My running theory has been that the official release date is tied up in Microsoft marketing deals still. So I'm guessing we'll hear the date from Microsoft during summer game fest.
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I don't believe it until I see it
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My running theory has been that the official release date is tied up in Microsoft marketing deals still. So I'm guessing we'll hear the date from Microsoft during summer game fest.
Its hard to tell what exactly their MS deal is and it would be surprising if MS had much influence beyond "We are part of the first release date"
But 2025 is actually pretty plausible. Pure speculation, but if Silksong was in the polishing/padding stage in even late 2023 and Team Cherry are financially stable? Waiting for a new console release makes a lot of sense. ESPECIALLY the Switch 2 since...
Look. The Switch 1's launch year was a fucking shitshow. Yeah yeah yeah, they had the greatest wii u of all time and blah blahblah. But the first party releases were pretty jacked up. It was "the Nindies" that carried the Switch 1. And it was ridiculously good for those indie studios who basically were the only games available for the latest Nintendo gameboy.
And Switch 2 is looking the same. That sizzle reel was almost all "We have a small DLC for the Switch 1 game!" and "This will be available in 2026". So you can bet plenty of indie devs and publishers were in talks with Nintendo about when the release window was so they could decide if they wanted to wait or not.
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I was hoping for an actual release date rather than just vaguely mentioning the year. They did say a year twice before IIRC and it still got delayed, an actual release date would feel more real.
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And would be nice to know if it's coming to other platforms at the same time, or is it going to be Switch 2 exclusive for some time.
No way it's an exclusive since Xbox mentioned it in their blog post.
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Damn, now we actually need an exact date to be sure it will be release this year.
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I don't believe it until I see it
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Xbox did that I think in like 2022-2023
I believe that's what I was thinking of, thanks
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I actually did blink and miss it, so I thought the internet was coping super hard until I saw the end credits and saw Team Cherry lmfao
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Its hard to tell what exactly their MS deal is and it would be surprising if MS had much influence beyond "We are part of the first release date"
But 2025 is actually pretty plausible. Pure speculation, but if Silksong was in the polishing/padding stage in even late 2023 and Team Cherry are financially stable? Waiting for a new console release makes a lot of sense. ESPECIALLY the Switch 2 since...
Look. The Switch 1's launch year was a fucking shitshow. Yeah yeah yeah, they had the greatest wii u of all time and blah blahblah. But the first party releases were pretty jacked up. It was "the Nindies" that carried the Switch 1. And it was ridiculously good for those indie studios who basically were the only games available for the latest Nintendo gameboy.
And Switch 2 is looking the same. That sizzle reel was almost all "We have a small DLC for the Switch 1 game!" and "This will be available in 2026". So you can bet plenty of indie devs and publishers were in talks with Nintendo about when the release window was so they could decide if they wanted to wait or not.
It's also launching day 1 on Game Pass, so Microsoft paid a pretty penny for it.
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My running theory has been that the official release date is tied up in Microsoft marketing deals still. So I'm guessing we'll hear the date from Microsoft during summer game fest.
Most definitely
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I need to rephrase that. I'm not believing until I see the game released
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That scene where you're fighting the dude and she swoops in and breaks his face and is like "GE DAH" and the music is fucking epic. They can take all the time they need, I'd rather it be good.
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It's also launching day 1 on Game Pass, so Microsoft paid a pretty penny for it.
I assume it will be on basically every subscription IGC.
Big lump sum to start with and guarantee they have a successful launch for any investors. And then people will buy it when it leaves the IGC in 6-12 months because they put it off or were waiting for a DLC or whatever. And then they'll buy it on every single platform because Hollow Knight is that damned good.
But the actual price to get something in an IGC is not as high as people think it is.
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3 years after Xbox announced it back in June 2022.
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On April 2? I'm suspicious.
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Welp, finally the year to do my first playthrough of Hollow Knight.
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I seen this song and dance before.
