Hollow Knight: Silksong Developer Responds to Release Date Confusion, Promises Launch 'Before Holiday,' Not Tied to Xbox Handheld Arrival

The developer of Hollow Knight: Silksong has addressed the game's little quality yesterday astatine Microsoft's Xbox Games Showcase 2025, erstwhile it popped up alongside the caller ROG Ally X handheld.

During the show, Xbox president Sarah Bond stated that Silksong would beryllium "available astatine motorboat and successful Game Pass erstwhile Ally releases aboriginal this year" — starring galore fans to judge the crippled was being lined up to get specifically arsenic a motorboat rubric for the caller hardware, which has a Holiday 2025 motorboat window.

But this isn't the case, Silksong developer Team Cherry has present said.

Writing connected the game's authoritative Discord, successful messages seen by IGN, Team Cherry selling manager Matthew 'Leth' Griffin stated that Silksong was not sat waiting for the ROG Ally X to motorboat — and that the crippled would get earlier the holidays.

"I confirmed BEFORE Holiday," Griffin wrote, adding: "we are not tied to a console release."

And conscionable successful lawsuit of confusion, erstwhile asked which vacation helium was referring to, Griffin added: "Christmas yes."

So, however agelong earlier Christmas volition Silksong yet release? Remember the information that the crippled volition seemingly beryllium playable successful September astatine an Australian museum, the country's nationalist depository of surface civilization successful Melbourne, from September 18. Could the crippled inactive beryllium acceptable for motorboat arsenic aboriginal arsenic that?

Silksong fans had hoped for much definitive quality connected a merchandise day from yesterday's Xbox Games Showcase, particularly arsenic aggregate updates to the game's Steam store leafage implicit the past week appeared to constituent towards an imminent launch, oregon possibly adjacent a shadiness drop.

Instead, Xbox reserved its accustomed shadiness driblet merchandise for the belated accomplishment of Final Fantasy 16 — and Silksong fans were near inactive wondering erstwhile the long-awaited Metroidvania would yet arrive. Still, Christmas is lone six months distant now.

IGN has already gone hands-on with the ROG Ally X, should you privation to play Silksong connected it, whenever the handheld arrives.

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