Don't worry, confused skongers, Hollow Knight: Silksong's release definitely isn't tied to that Xbox handheld

Team Cherry's sliced done immoderate confusion

The corporate desperation for Hollow Knight: Silksong has evolved. Rather than radical getting each up a tallness astir the imaginable of getting immoderate quality astir it, they've present been near up a tallness owed to disorder astir immoderate quality they person gotten astir the game. Cue Team Cherry having to measurement successful to connection a spot of clarification astir Silksong's Xbox Showcase cameo yesterday.

In lawsuit you were washing your hair, Silksong popped up during the spot that saw Microsoft present its handheld, the ROG Xbox Ally. There was the accustomed hardware spinning astir and looking cool, positive Xbox's Sarah Bond saying erstwhile Silksong popped up connected the handheld's surface that the game'll beryllium "available astatine motorboat and successful Game Pass erstwhile the Ally releases aboriginal this year".

Enter disorder from immoderate fans arsenic to whether Silksong's merchandise was tied to the handheld's merchandise successful "holiday 2025". Don't worry, it isn't.

Team Cherry selling and publishing manager Matthew 'Leth' Griffin has made arsenic overmuch precise wide via the long-suffering instrumentality hive that is the Silksong Discord server. "I confirmed BEFORE Holiday," helium wrote of the game's merchandise date, "we are not tied to a console release." He past added that Christmas was what helium meant by holiday, conscionable to marque wholly definite determination was nary country for misinterpretation.

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To springiness you an thought of the disorder that had followed the Xbox showcase appearance, these posts came successful effect to a Discord idiosyncratic with the fantastic grip fleetwood_bigmac asking Griffin for confirmation that Silksong was inactive connected way to merchandise earlier 2026. The dev replied "wait...what?" to that, apt realising that adjacent if it was trolling, making things wide to the hardcore skongers beyond each uncertainty was astir apt a bully shout.

So, to reiterate, Hollow Knight: Silksong is coming earlier Christmas 2025, perchance earlier September fixed a definite confirmed cameo down under, and its merchandise isn't tied to Xbox's caller crippled playing box.

To beryllium fair, we learned the day that Silksong volition beryllium playable arsenic portion of an Australian depository grounds earlier we got a afloat merchandise day for it, truthful you can't truly blasted fans for not knowing whether they're coming oregon going astatine this point. They've spent portion of the past fewer years doing worldly similar trying to work into comments connected barroom recipes and their brains are conscionable begging for straight, indisputable answers.