Summary
- Hollow Knight: Silksong mysteriously disappeared from the Nintendo eShop earlier today, causing panic among the Silksong faithful.
- No explanation was given by Nintendo or Team Cherry for the removal, though the page was back to normal within a few hours.
- Some fans are now convinced that this was a sneaky update for an upcoming announcement scheduled for Hollow Knight’s anniversary next week.
Hollow Knight fans have been desperate for even the smallest update on Silksong from developer Team Cherry for a good while now, with many searching high and low for even a crumb of positive news. It’s what made the community go wild when they thought that a potential Silksong ARG was found, though that ended up being yet another disappointing dead end.
Imagine then, how many Hollow Knight fans felt when they woke up, checked out the Silksong listing on the Nintendo eShop, only to find it had gone missing. That was the reality for a lot of people earlier today, as Hollow Knight: Silksong had completely vanished, nowhere to be seen on the eShop itself, and it had also managed to remove itself from wishlists too.
Hollow Knight Fans Panic As Silksong Was Briefly Delisted From Nintendo Eshop
With absolutely no explanation from either Nintendo or Team Cherry, panic began to set in. There were worries that an official announcement was incoming, and that Team Cherry was going to cancel the game. You could find hundreds of fans with the obligatory “it’s over” tweets, with others praying desperately that this just means it’s planned for Switch 2 instead.
Over in the land of the Silksong faithful (also known as the Silksong subreddit), there were attempts to get to the bottom of exactly what was going on. Popular Hollow Knight creator Primacon claimed to have reached out to Team Cherry’s marketing and publishing guy Matthew Griffin to see what was going on, to which he responded that he was “looking into it”.
A few hours later, Silksong was back on the Nintendo eShop like it had been there all along, with no discernible changes made to the page. Neither Nintendo nor Team Cherry have since explained what the heck was going on for those three hours, or what exactly caused the page to go down in the first place. Right now, absolutely nobody knows why Silksong just vanished briefly.
Of course, fans are now huffing copium that this means some kind of announcement is right around the corner, and that the page was being secretly updated for one reason or another. With the anniversary of Hollow Knight’s release coming up on February 24, there’s a little bit of hope in the air, but Silksong believers are pretty much used to disappointment at this stage.
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Team Cherry