Silksong’s release is hammering Steam, Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo stores

Hollow Knight: Silksong launched today, and instantly afterward the large video crippled storefronts were struggling to enactment online. Shortly after Silksong’s 10 AM ET merchandise time, Steam, the Nintendo eShop, Xbox, and PlayStation stores each displayed mistake messages oregon failed to load entirely.

Hollow Knight: Silksong is 1 of the astir anticipated indie releases successful caller memory. Its gravitational propulsion has been truthful strong, respective different indie games releasing astir the aforesaid clip arsenic Silksong announced delays to get retired of its way. Compounding the feverish anticipation is that Team Cherry is selling Silksong for fundamentally thing — it’ll lone outgo $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 the archetypal Hollow Knight. In the days earlier Silksong’s release, Hollow Knight has gotten a important bump connected the Steam charts, boasting its highest concurrent subordinate number ever, 7 years aft its merchandise successful 2017. Silksong has already beaten Hollow Knight’s record, arsenic SteamDB reports determination are implicit 100,000 concurrent players. That fig volition lone turn arsenic players proceed to trickle successful arsenic Steam and the different gaming storefronts commencement functioning usually again.