So, What is ACTUALLY Going On With Silksong? 

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2:53 no you’re 100% wrong, they literally want to release a game full of bugs

silksong is a social experiment and we are their subjects

Guys its easier to just forget about silksong. Then when it releases it will be a pleasant surprise

2:52 "They don't want to release something that's full of bugs." Nah, I'm pretty sure that's the point of Hollow Knight

The true silksong are the friends we made along the way

By this point, I'm writing in my will that my hopefully eventual offspring will play it for me in my memory.

Team cherry : Breathes fanbase : THAT MUST MEAN SOMETHING !

My cope method is to think the longer Silksong takes, the bigger and better it will be.

Can’t wait for my grandchildren to play Silksong on release day

i really feel like everything would just be so much easier, both for the fans and for team cherry, if they just released a newsletter every couple months or even just a couple times a year where they give some vague info about how far along in the development cycle we are, kinda like the deltarune newsletter. gives the fans something to cope with and relieves a bit of the pressure from team cherry by giving the fans more to look forward to or reasons why its taking so long

I just completely forget about Silksong until other people bring it up.

Remember, they are trying to top a masterpiece.

Tbf silksong has only been in development for 5 years. Big games normally take wayy longer, the only difference is that silksong was announced when they first started developing it instead of halfway through development. This gives people the unrealistic expectation of the game releasing much sooner than it should, this is why game devs wait a long time before announcing games theyre working on. Games take a long time to produce, especially when the devs care

We getting GTA6 before silksong

Prepare for what might be maximum copium, but I stopped being worried about Silksong for two reasons: 1.- We often complain about crunch during videogame development. Team Cherry is really taking its time to develop the game and since they haven't announced a release date yet, they don't have the pressure to work extra hours to complete the game in time. 2.- Once I heard (I don't remember where) that we should start seeing videogames as pieces of art instead of products. When someone is crafting a product, they have a plan on how much it will take to complete it, but when someone is creating art, a lot of times, the creation of the piece depends from inspiration, which may not always be the same, so it's really hard to try to adjust its creation to a schedule. This point is easier to understand if you compare it when music. For example, when some artist or band (such as Tool or Kendrick Lamar) haven't released an album in years, we (well, not all people, but a lot of people do) understand that since they're working on a piece of art, maybe they haven't had the inspiration to create new pieces of art, of maybe they don't feel like they have something new they want to communicate or convey to the public, you just can't force it. Well, I decide to view Team Cherry and Silksong just as that. I decide to view it as a piece of art that can't be forced to be created, and not as a product. And yeah, my only concern is the lack of communication from Team Cherry, but at least we know the game was alive on June 2022 because of the Xbox conference, so that's it.

It’s extremely simple. They expanded their vision exponentially but didn’t hire anyone to take on the work load. It’s an incredibly unsustainable way to go about making a game, leaving silksong with the possibility of never releasing. Although it probably will come out one day, the return on profit will be considerably less with the time taken to achieve it.

Team Cherry will sing us a SONG and we will become SILK

My hype levels are at an all time low. 5 years with barely a pebble of news is insane and frustrating. I'm fine waiting many years for games (I'm a KH fan), but you have to communicate with your fanbase. All this silence and waiting is doing is building insane expectations. IF it doesn't reach those expectations, people are going to be disappointed regardless of how good the game is.

I think its just gonna shadow drop like in a week at like 12 pm when no one expects it. ill put like 5 dollars on it

The only news here is confirming not in development he'll from Greg, everything else is stuff/speculation we've been hearing for months now like "it's being polished/ported and in its final stages No matter what % of it is done its taking a while because they want it to be as perfect as possible and their first expected date being early 2023 is because their perfectionists Imo

Silksong will be a launch title for the Switch 2

this video is such copium. good work but this fandom has been saying "its almost done its gonna come out soon so soon!!" for the last two years

not gonna lie, unless it's realising this year, I think it's kinda fucked up that they hyped everyone up so much and then ghost us for 5 years. A "development is going well" would have been enought, but nope, radio silence.

I hope they cook up some good lore with how long it’s taking 😭

Honestly, I don't know what to think anymore. I (and many others I assume) are lost, and it's hard to feel about it anymore without CONCRETE evidence. This is a good sum up though, thanks!

"what's going on with silksong?" they're working on it

I don't care at all how long it takes, as long as it comes out at the standard of the original

the fact that it took two years to make a game like hollow knight and just how good it turned out, i can’t even imagine how good silksong is gonna be. if they release it now, next year or in the next five years, i just know it’s something i’m going to fall in love with just based on how much effort team cherry as a whole puts into their games.

"What's 17 more years? I can always start again...make another Silksong" /j

People keep waiting for it to pop up on an indie showcase - Silksong (or Hollow Knight for that matter) has never been featured in one of those. HK was announced and shadow dropped on Switch during a Nintendo E3 Digital Presentation. Silksong was announced at a Nintendo and then featured at an XBox e3 conference. Unless it’s one of those I don’t see them featuring it. They could also have pushed back release to make it ready for the Switch 2, who knows

honestly i could see it going two ways. 1. They release in spring for the sentimental value and less competition. 2. They release fall/winter and go head to head with the big winter releases. followed by a big marketing push for merch. im really hoping they release at the end of this year. Mostly because i honestly believe at this point they're just timing the market and their merch. They're experienced and have the support to make the game but not with merch sales. The merch is also where most of their profit will probably come from to begin with. them timing the game to release in fall and then the merch in winter before the holidays would be the best way to capitalize on the games hype.

9:50 that's what I'm talking about, every day I think about that

Being a very impatient person is horrible in this situation

As someone firmly in the camp of "sure, Silksong's on my steam wishlist" (no other investment in it) it's fascinating to see a handful of people go insane over it It'll come out. When? Doesn't matter unless you're going to die in the next few months or years.

development hell doesnt just mean "wow this takes a long time to make huh", its more like theres miscomunication between executives and developers, about budget etc. which leads to the game taking way longer than expected because higher ups have no idea what makes a good game good. Them saying they arent in development hell does NOT mean that the game is almost finished, it could just mean that they keep adding new features and those implementations are going smoothly. My personal theory (said in a matpat voice), is that they are too focused on perfection, so even though they have a full game at their hands, or at least close to it, they cant finish it, because they want it to be bigger, better, more fleshed out, tighter etc. than hollow knight. So they keep adding more and more content. I think they should seriously just consider laying down a release date and then 100% stick to releasing it by that date, like "25. october 2025", its almost like they need someone to come in and tell them, "no you cant work on this anymore", i dont know if anyone has watched the 'rasing Kratos' doc, about the development of God of War 2018, but that is what happened with them, they wanted to keep on working on it, but Cory (or someone else i forget) said the team needed a date they could stick to, otherwise the game was never gonna come out, because developers at Santa Monica strive for perfection, and you can never get perfection.

It will be very hard to live up to the final hollow knight product. I feel like they had to make it huge to stack up against HK with all the dlcs

It breaks my heart to see a young man's hopes shattered again and again

I feel like we’re caught in scope creep but since hollowknight has sold so well, cherry could go on increasing the scope for years to come without running out of money.

In my opinion this is by far the most unprofessional event I've seen. They could have done so many things to make thier community less annoyed and frustrated. Like not releasing a trailer years before the game. Or they could have said something like... Hey guys we released this reveal trailer a bit too early. Don't expect anything for like a few years. But instead of letting the people know absolutely anything it's just been years of radio silence.

If you got the itch go play nine sols

"I'm feeling that they must be in the polishing phase of development" yeah we've been feeling that way for years. game is in dev hell

Honestly, at this point I think the devs are.. scared to release the game. Imagine all the expectations, it must be daunting. If the game will be average, gamers will destroy it in the reviews. People will be talking about this game for years, either how excellent it became and the devs delivered, or as one of the biggest failures in gaming history. Either way I'm looking forward to it.

Cant wait for a triple AAA indie game release and actually wipe the dust off my switch 😂

I remember hearing about how the voice actress for Hornet already concluded her work for the game, but that was YEARS ago, lol. Anyway, im confident we will get Silksong before Winds of Winter... surely...

People who care about this at all need to get a life, im not even trying to be rude. If they were saying more yall would still complain. I keep seeing angry ppl claiming 6 years is waaay too long for a aaa title, when its really not; think about how many games that come out that quickly or quicker are riddled with bugs or general issues. How is this unreleased game important enough to you that you are genuinely upset about it? You reeeeaaaallly need to get your priorities straight if your emotions are influenced nearly at all by something so completely distanced from you and outside your control. Play something else

Imagine it was done 3 years ago, they just forgot to release it 🤣

i just started highschool when they announced this im gonna be a college student next week

the opposite of dev hell is not "nearly done," the opposite of dev hell is actively developing without any kinks in the process. dev hell does not indicate that a game is far from being completed, it just means that the process itself has been royally fucked and there's no straightforward way for anyone in the company to get anything done because things keep changing and nobody can make any decisions. a game can be in dev hell all the way til release. just because they aren't in dev hell doesn't mean they are close to finishing. you and i both know how dedicated team cherry is to fleshing out all of their ideas fully as they come up with them. I wouldn't be surprised if silksong is even larger than they initially presented us with, and they just haven't felt confident enough that they're done coming up with new stuff yet to give us any concrete news. either way, this sort of speculation simply isn't productive at this point. forget about the game and focus on something else, then when it finally comes out it will be a pleasant surprise!

Just a small correction. The first silksong merch was the hornet nendroid

Ugh, I need to check at the doctor. I thought my cope meter is to high

The scope creep on this game is out of control, I'm sure, and I have a feeling its because Team Cherry feels the need to cater to the most hardcore fans (not a good thing, in my opinion) with more difficulty, more bosses, more areas. They are probably shoving in content that 98% of players won't find or care about just to justify the delay. I really hope I'm wrong. Making a game bigger (and just adding more of everything) for its own sake doesn't make it better.

Consuming three bottles of Copium per day - The Video

But you were right, it will appear in the june direct... Of 2124

I don't want to look into things too much, but I also can't help but notice... Metroid Prime 4 got a release window before Silksong. Like that's a game that we know for a fact was announced way too early, entered development hell, and had to be restarted entirely, yet we actually know it's coming out soon after 8 years of waiting. I don't think Silksong is anywhere near that same boat, but I can't blame other people for feeling that way. The silence is deafening and not what people are used to with indie development.

Bit late to the video but the first actual Silk Song piece of merch was the Hornet Nendroid That happened quite a while ago

Guess 5 years for a masterpiece is not that long when you think about it. This game will be legendary. The whole gaming space knows about Silksong and no game will be able to compete. I wonder at this point if Silksong will release first, or Crowsworn.

Everyone says that team cherry is taking their time to make sure that the game is perfect, but I really just hope that there's a ton of bugs

They announced it too early, and you all are too obsessed with a video game. Forget about it, and it will eventually come out.

Are those Hylics legos on your desk?

12:33 I imagine that the next piece of silksong news will be the game releasing without warning, not a release date, release dates don't sound like a Team Cherry move.

going on 7 years with no information sounds like dev hell to me

We know why Jack Vine wasn’t there. We know the allegations. You can’t hide forever Jack Vine.

I wonder if all the backers are getting updates and just being asked to keep quiet til release?

I think what they're doing is they've shown us enough to show its real and then keeping all the rest a secret until launch so we can actually explore it completely blind. Like yeah been a loooong while since an update and this might be cope but id rather not see more. If they were to have updated us frequently or whatever we would have things spoiled important or not.

Theyve been writing the newest blogpost for 5 years

maybe the wait will be worth it in the end.

I think what a lot of people forget is hollow knight made a lot of money the developers wanted to put as much effort as much money they made so if it’s taking this long it just means there’s gonna be a load of content in the game so hopefully the pay off for the wait we’ll be worth it

I don’t mind games taking along time to develop especially for a big game which silk song is going to be, but I do have a problem when games just announce games way to early then it should and also saying a release date or a time it will release.

i couldve recreated this game IN GEOMETRY DASH by now.

A major game distributor was planning on this game coming out sometime 2023. We are 9 months past that deadline. We don't know whose fault that was. But it sure doesn't scream great things about development and its organization whatsoever. I do believe the development was not doing great, but they have the support to not care about it that much. But let's not bs people. I think by now we understand fairly well that Team Cherry has incredible skills and glaring flaws, and it's not wrong to praise them for the former and make them accountable for the latter. At the end of the day, the only thing they are hurting is their community and their success. Silksong is not doing better bc of their management regarding communications.

This whole video is coping and wishfull thinking... the game is firmly stuck in development hell. If they made a masterpiece in 2.5 years, there is absolutely no reason Silksong has to take this long to develop unless there are some major roadblocks in the development cycle. Team Cherry has enough money that they can hire some more hands to help finishing the game (if it would only come down to actually building the game) or get Microsoft or Nintendos help on optimising/finishing the development

silksong is never coming out we just have to accept it

It would be smart to release it during the trailer at Nintendo Direct. Max hype!

iirc, greg once said team cherry work on the game non stop from monday to friday, like a normal job schedule, so I guess they just take the weekends to relax or something and thats why they attended that event, nothing else

The teacher waiting for me to show my project or any type of update on how it's going: Me who's just waiting for them to forget: Safe to say I firmly believe they are NOT doing anything right now.

I love these Devs and Team cherry 🍒 so freakin much…as far as I’m concerned they can take all the time they need and I’ll still buy and play the fuck out of anything they make 😂🎉

Silksong is giving you the opportunity to be the next star on RU-vid🥁

1 year from now: OKAY I KNOW I SAID ITS WINDING DOWN BUT IT SEEMS LIKE ITS ACTUALLY WINDING DOWN NOW!

Totk taught me thst many years of dev time for a sequel doesnt mean it will be great

silksong will not release until 2026. do not expect anything sooner.

Silksong is just a myth it never existed at all

They played Nine Sols and realized they're gonna get washed

GTA 6 is gonna come out before silksong

This game has took so long to come out im not even excited for it anymore 😭😭

We getting GTA 6 before Silk Song ☠️

“Team cherry doesn’t want to release a game full of bugs” Well, actually….. xD

the game is coming out end of this year, early next year. That is the most information we have.

Moral: All good things comes to those who wait

This shit is like winds of winter, its never coming out until i have it in my hands.

The one thing no one is talking about is there a ton of expectation for silk song so of course it takes quite a long time

If they still want it on switch they do have to optimize the fuck out of it so I can't really complain

Isn't the game supposed to be full of .. y'know, bugs?

The waiting for Silksong is already more legendary than Silksong

What’s going on with silksong? It’s being developed! Let team cherry be!

Let's bet on the game. Here's the sides: Silksong comes out before an objectively good modern pirate101 update Or An actually good modern pirate101 update comes out before silksong. I bet on the former

I think Team Cherry were just in Japan to have a nice holiday because they Deserve It :)

aaah, yes, some good quality copium

Silksong is not real. It was all just a dream. Wake up. Its been five years

It will be a release title for the Switch 2 - that' s why it' s been "delayed". But since the Switch 2 hasn' t been revealed yet, they cannot talk about it.