Overview

• Team Cherry released Silksong worldwide on September 4 across PC, Nintendo Switch/Switch 2, PS4/PS5, and Xbox One/Series X|S with day-one Xbox Game Pass availability at $19.99.
• Traffic spikes produced widespread errors: Steam threw E502 L3 overload messages and briefly hid the store page, the PlayStation Store showed only a wishlist page or nothing for some users, and Nintendo took the eShop offline for maintenance.
• SteamDB recorded more than 100,000 concurrent players within the first hour, surpassing the original Hollow Knight’s peak of roughly 72,916.
• No review codes, preorders, or preloads were issued, so journalists and players began at the same time and purchasing was concentrated at launch.
• Players reported workarounds despite outages, including remote installs via Xbox.com and completing purchases through the Steam mobile app.