Hollow Knight: Silksong Makes Brief Appearance During Nintendo Switch 2 Direct to Secure 2025 Release Window

Team Cherry showed up for a fewer seconds of today’s Nintendo Switch 2 Direct to uncover that its long-awaited follow-up, Hollow Knight: Silksong, has nailed down a 2025 merchandise window.

It showed up for the hardware-focused presumption for a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it infinitesimal that included small much than a fewer seconds of caller gameplay and confirmation of Team Cherry’s updated motorboat plans. It’s acold from a merchandise day and could perfectly beryllium pushed, but for now, it’s the astir promising update for Hollow Knight: Silksong we’ve gotten successful years.

Originally confirmed for conscionable Nintendo Switch and PC, with Xbox (and Game Pass) and PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 versions being added later, Team Cherry has been dilatory ramping up the speech astir Silksong aft going quiescent for a agelong time. It was announced a whopping six years agone astir to the day, and extracurricular of the occasional pop-up, it has laid dormant since. The workplace down the Hollow Knight follow-up did committedness that motorboat would soon get backmost successful 2022, but arsenic the months came and went, anticipation began to dwindle that Hollow Knight: Silksong would ever get - until recently.

Team Cherry kicked disconnected 2025 with a mysterious tease related to a cocoa barroom recipe, starring hopeless fans to anticipation that a re-reveal would get successful April. Of course, we present cognize that, somehow, the riddle-solving Hollow Knight fans were close to expect a uncover alongside the Switch 2 Direct. Although today’s 2025 merchandise model committedness offered small successful presumption of really showing what the crippled has to offer, it’s astatine slightest thing to people connected your calendars.

Time volition archer if Team Cherry volition yet beryllium capable to nail down a Hollow Knight: Silksong merchandise day earlier the twelvemonth is out. In the meantime, you tin spot everything other announced during today’s Nintendo Switch 2 Direct here.

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