Explaining the Internet’s obsession with Silksong, which (finally) comes out Sept. 4
Hollow Knight: Silksong will be released on September 4. It will come out simultaneously on Windows, macOS, Linux, Xbox, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, the Nintendo Switch, and the Nintendo Switch 2.
On paper, "game gets release date" isn't particularly groundbreaking news, and the six-year wait between the game's announcement and release is long but nowhere near record-breaking. People have waited longer for Metroid Prime 4 (announced 2017, releasing this fall), Duke Nukem Forever (announced 1997, released 2011), the fourth BioShock game (in development for a decade at a studio that just got ravaged by layoffs), and Half-Life 3 (never actually announced, but hope springs eternal), just to name a few.
But fans of 2017's Hollow Knight managed to make the wait for Silksong into a meme. It's hard to explain why if you haven't already been following along, but it's probably got something to do with the expected scale of the game, the original Hollow Knight's popularity, and the almost total silence of the small staff at Team Cherry, the game's developer.