Just a few hours ago, Team Cherry’s marketing director, Leth, posted an update about Hollow
Knight Silksong on the reputable website known as Twiter.com.
In this post, Leth states that Team Cherry had hoped to release Silksong in the first
half of 2023, but are still currently developing the game and want to put more time into it
to make sure it can be the best game it can be.
So the June 12th release window we got is no longer valid.
And yes, this is real.
I even checked the community notes so you know it’s real.
The Game Awards also tweeted out that Silksong will not be releasing in June 2023 at all.
Team Cherry might follow up this tweet with a blogpost themselves, but that remains to
be seen.
The delay is certainly disappointing.
There have been some rumblings that Xbox might have pressured Team Cherry into committing
for a release date, especially since Team Cherry has said in the past that Silksong
runs on “Cherry-Time”, which basically meant whenever they felt like it.
Now I think everybody watching this channel can agree that Xbox is evil, maybe even more
evil than, say, Disney or Footlocker, but I don’t know if they really forced Team
Cherry to agree to a release window they didn’t actually want.
That said, the fact that William and Ari themselves never confirmed the June 12th release date
caused some doubts among fans here in the first half of 2023.
So yeah, things have been kinda confusing lately, leading to some disgruntled fans within
the community.
Which, I can’t really say I blame them.
Now, if they’re being assholes about it and harassing the developers, that’s completely
unacceptable, but I do think Team Cherry could have communicated with the fandom a little
more clearly though all of this.
But either way, I think we can all agree what's ultimately important is the quality of the
final product.
And if Team Cherry thinks that they need this extra time to make Silksong all the more special,
I trust them.
Remember the wise words of Bethesda Game Studios director Todd Howard, who once said “"A
delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad.
My name is Todd Howard."
Thank you, Todd Howard.
Shine on, you crazy bastard.