The real reason Silksong isn't out yet is that Hornet is still being carried across the wastelands to Pharloom. The initial cutscene was actually highly abridged for the trailers, and is a real time, 8 year simulation simulation of Hornet and her captors walking the 500k miles from Hallownest to Pharloom (canon distance and time, source: My uncle is the Cherry from the Team Cherry logo) The reason it's taking so long is that they are bugs and very small so they walk slow.
@@AveragePerson9 This self deprecating humor where everyone is failing miserably to cope with the fact that they’re gonna have to wait is not funny, stop it. The game is obviously in a finished state, we’re just waiting for it to get ported.
Clickbait title. No mention of the theory about Team Cherry being taken out by one of those Gnarly Australian Kangaroos, or perhaps a Gnarly Australian Spider.
SILKSONG can be rearranged to spell LONG KISS this means that every hollow knight fan must kiss someone for a long time, and only then will silksong release to a fanbase rich in maidens
i think that they've actually finished it all and theyre just waiting to release in, like, q1 next year. unrelated, but the walls of this new room i moved into are super soft and squishy.
My theory is that team Cherry got distracted by making another game. Why else would they pay for a trade mark on Fearless Fox?? It would be like if Crowsworn started working on crow art but then took it way too far and slowed down on Crowsworn development.
Hm... I heard a story once where some famous author wanted to write a sequel to his book, but he got stuck in writers block and couldn't finish the sequel. So then he started writing a 3rd book without finishing the 2nd, and once that was done he could finish writing the 2nd book. I forget whether it was Sanderson or Stephenson or Sorrenson some other name but I feel like it started with an S and ended in "son". So maybe Team Cherry got stuck with writer's block or developer's block on Silksong, and decided to develop Zoteboat instead. Then once Zoteboat is completed, then they can finish up Silksong with clearer minds about what story events Silksong needs to set up Zoteboat. Then they can release both games in peace.
Theory Timestamps: 2:59 - Switch 2 launch conspiracy 4:54 - TC lost their twitter password 5:23 - Unity fees 8:11 - Scope creep 10:31 - TC somehow lost the source code 11:32 - Ari and William divorced 13:12 - Silksong got cancelled 14:43 - Yuri image (passion project/development heaven theory) 16:47 - Silksong is a psyop 17:57 - Console ports 20:41 - Silksanity P.S. i can't believe he put that image in the tierlist but didn't mention the deleted sex scenes joke theory
My theory is no matter how many times we get put down silksong fans still swarm to every showcase upping the view counts and alternative game sales and game direct so companies are paying them to hold off on releasing it and making them stay contractually radio silent so they can keep those benefits.
I think they could be waiting for the switch 2 ngl. I don't even think they signed a deal with Nintendo I just genuinely think that there is a good chance that they got an early dev kit of the console to port and they could be waiting/porting. I know this is a crackhead theory but If the game gets a trailer/news at The Game Awards then it would likely get a Q1 or Q2 release date, very similar to when the Switch 2 could be releasing. Whether they are "waiting" for it or not I for sure think that silksong will come out very near the Switch 2 release. Also if the scope creep theory is true then the game is going to be way bigger then anyone wants it to be. They said in previous interviews that it doesn't take them that long to add new content, so either the game is gonna be 100 hours long, or they are just taking their time. If they were still adding content even until last year, the game has a really big chance of being double almost triple the size of hollow Knight by the logic of the scope creep theory. If this is true then I am going to be thoroughly disappointed because I don't want a 100 hour long game haha. Although the most likely reason it that they are porting. I think they may be almost done and they might reveal it at The Game Awards.
@@sheepman6785 Believe it or not I don't want a game that takes 100 hours to complete because I don't want to play a single game for 100 hours! I would much rather play five 20hr games. It's really not that complicated to understand. Silksong being too long would be worse then if it was too short. I want a 40hr game like Hollow Knight.
Two theories first is that Silksong is just not ready yet and it’s a bigger game than Hollow Knight with the same exact team working on the game and the second theory is during development some big element of the game like the main story wasn’t the way the wanted it so Team Cherry had to redo the entire story and everything relating to it in the game
We have ranked enemies We have ranked areas We have ranked bosses We have ranked benches We have ranked the freaking _grass_ And now we are ranking theories on why silksong is taking so long
Scopecreep is definitely my biggest theory, but I also don’t think Ari and William having some disagreements is completely implausible. I certainly don’t think it’s personal, or that they hate each other or anything. But I feel like they could be dealing with creative differences. That’s not the most likely theory- again, scopecreep is the one that makes the most sense- but I don’t think it’s silly either.
I know people who genuinely think Silksong is fake. Like, no jokes, they think it’s a scam. Why? They say, “so the developers can trick everyone into going to their current game to make more money!” Like… Team Cherry is not the League of Doom what are you talking about?!?!
I am a firm believer in the Nintendo Launch title conspiracy. even if Prima foolishly put it at F-tier. People didn't believe it when Ninty bought and used BAYONETTA, a pretty sexual and mature game, to bolster the sales of the Wii U. Silksong could fit as a launch title. inb4 people call me a reddit bitch: I don't use reddit.
@@ErrorNumber404 sure, but just consider for a moment that Nintendo isn't actually enforcing it, but Team Cherry is. They know Nintendo advertised it, they know the sales numbers for the original on the switch 1. You have to admit that if they waited for Switch 2 to be out for a couple weeks- then dropped it, their sales numbers would be marginally higher, and they might be banking on that. I mean why release it now if you could release it in 3 months and sell 35% more copies, they aren't hurting for money, might as well set it up right?
@@williamswartwood86 see that makes more sense than the OG commenter. I would rank that B tier still, I think scope creep’s the reason more than anything (and would trump this potential reason if it came down to it).
My theory is that they're done with content (or atleast, should be) and are busy with polishing and porting the game. But the silence is due to the hungry, cut-throat community. I firmly believe the game's release is on the horizon and shouldn't be any later than 2025 or 2026 (though if I'm wrong, you can publicly shame me with a million "I told you so"s). But I'm also worried if Silksong doesn't live up to it's high expectations, Team Cherry will end up in the same position as the Hotline Miami devs. Overall, the fans just need to chill out and be patient.
Score creep is very common for small teams and solos. For example, geometry dash 2.2. It started from "small update" and ended with "3x of 2.1 content", which had been in development for 7 years. I believe, the silksong situation is pretty the same, it also started from small (dlc)
the falling out argument has more merit than you think. Imagine a situation where the team has two mutually exclusive options. One person is in favor of one and one - the other. This can be really dividing and although I believe that in such a big project that wouldn't be very time consuming because they are time pressed and would probably sort it out but it's still very probable.
This kinda fits into scope creep but I thought about how in the trailers and stuff their is far more life in the world of Pharloom then ever was in hollownest. Also Ari is clearly a talented and perfectionist artist. These two things had me thinking with the layered art strategy that they use. I’d wager they are polishing the games liveliness a ton. And that’s not as easy as it sounds assuming their are not issues in the code you have to plan out how your different “rooms” or segments of the world play out in the background of the players experience without it seeming like a game. This involves worked out and finalized art, animations and then a ton of coding to ensure that the world actually feel alive and not “Gamey”. Knowing how Ari and William work I’d wager this is a big part of the slowness of development. Not only are they adding a lot but they are perfecting everything as well the environments and features and interactions with the world. Also it’s worth noting that while William is by no means a bad Programmer he was no master when he helped make hollowknight. They used a system that runs visual code rather than standard code for a lot of the game. This is typically less efficient and is used by people still learning to code traditionally.
One thing to point out is, a lot of the likeliest issues are making each other issue compounded. The Scope Creep/Passion points were mentioned but the console port issue is also getting exacerbated by how long the the game has been in development. Back when the game was announced it was just the PS4, XBone and Switch. But now we've not only got those but the PS5, whatever that next Xbox console was, and now we've got the Switch 2 coming over the horizon. The development has lasted so long that the current gen is becoming obsolete and now they have to worry about either throwing away their work on the older ports, or try to port it to EVERYTHING. Which just gets worse as time goes on thanks to the scope creep ladden development. It's basically a triple threat powder keg at this rate.
Theory: The never-ending thirst of the HK community has driven TC mad, and as vengeance they withold information... silksong has been ready for years, as a final barrier should the community fall... it's just a matter of when
As an indie game dev, I personally think that it is the “scope creep” one because it is honestly super difficult to decide when enough is enough. It would be even worse if you published a game as huge as hollow knight, the expectations would be so high and you just wouldn’t know if you made enough content
i mean... nintendo literally did that with hollow knight, they asked hollow knight to release on the nintendo switch because they lacked indie titles and thats how hollow knight became one of the biggest top sellers on the nintendo
My theory is that Team Cherry is being sued because of a song called precisely "Silksong", and because of that they not only need to come up with a new name that makes sence but also change all concepts related to music and that stuff, NPC's and enemy/boss designs, quests and many areas around the map. My sources told me that instead the will replace "Song", with "Illicit Substances" being the 2 more predominant "Coppium" and a new one craft from the substance resulting from the infection from the original game that's going 5o be called "InFesta".
this isnt me coping, but its a genuine theory i have that its going to release february of next year. 1. they went out to conventions, now developers going out on vacations doesnt mean that they MUST be done with the game, sometimes devs need to take a break and thats completely understandable. But looking at how many years its been in development, and that porting theory you mentioned, i think its pretty safe to say that they are done and that its just waiting to be fully ported. 2. Why february of next year? Someone mentioned in a video i watched that team cherry does NOT intend on releasing their game by the end of the year, because of other massive game studios that will release their game, it wont maximize silksongs sales and that will have some issues. 3. hollow knight took about 4 years to finish, thats including porting, and if silksong is going to be considerably larger than hollow knight, i think its pretty safe to assume that the 1 extra year they took is to add those few extra content to make silksong bigger than hollow knight. (also ive never wrote a comment this long, it goes to show how much im coping for this game lol)
I really hope it's scope creep. That just means that Silksong will be That much more full. I think they may also be making it bigger so that it can hold us over till their next game because I'm pretty sure they know Fearless Fox will take years to make, considering their game making mentality.
A theory my friends have come up with as a joke is that the devs forgot about it untill people started talking about it at summer game fest and they have only started making it now, i also dont think unity would be a factor as silksong won an award for unity most wanted
Day fifteen of giving primacon random rainworld tips and very real spoilers until he continues his rainworld playthrough. Tip of the day: After incapacitating you lizards will bring you back to their den, if they take any damage during this they will drop you. this rule also applys to scavengers, if you can get one out of a sticky situation your reputation with scavengers will increase. Spoiler of the day: imagine being araraura, now imagine having to write a easy enough to understand tip about a obscure indie game every. single. day. you hold the keys to get me out this torturous cell primacon, you know what its like being in jail, you were just in it just yesterday. please send help.
I know that Team Cherry was bought by Ubisoft and that Silksong will be a Dlc for AC Shadow. It will be a Doktor Mario like and it will come in October 2025
My theory is that the game is almost done, Team Cherry only has one big area left. It is similar to colosseum of fools but it is a circus where everyone is waiting for something. And to not die of waiting everyone in the circus uses a substance called "hope". This is 100% confirmed, my sister is Hornet. P. S. :When I asked her is she void, she answered "yes". And I put "theory" at the start for no reason, I forgot it was 100% confirmed.
5:08 This is actually pretty possible. Recently tried to use my inactive Twitter account and it was so difficult to access since it didn’t let me change my password for some reason.
Everyone in TC got murdered by crazed silksong fans who were gonna publish the game themselves after obtaining it, but Ari pressed a self destruct button and deleted the entire game, so now the crazed fans are scrambling to make a new passable game themselves while posing as TC
I'm feeling optimistic. Now that Subnautica 2 has been shown off, I'm back in my Subnautica phase and ignoring Silksong for a bit, up until the game awards. I have a big feeling for Winter 2025, which makes me suspect some trailer as early as the game awards up until maybe early march. If not, then we got a whole other year to wait. I'm telling y'all, 2025 is the year of gaming.
Recently Unity retracted their statement on the new policy and I suggested a theory that Silksong was almost completely done on Godot, but now that Unity is safe again they are porting it back to Unity, anything to delay the release
There we go again... Trying to keep Primacon away from SilkSong cope is like trying to keep a moth away from fire... Oh no! (Hollow Knight: OST - Radiance starts playing).
A big think is like. We dk whats happening in their personal lives. They could be dealing with health problems or family issues or burnout and we just dont know 🤷♂️
To be fair to the first theory, Hollow Knight actually was listed as a launch title for the switch to pad out their launch roster. Still not the best theory, but it’s not as far fetched given that Nintendo actually has done this before
Honestly, I don't think it takes too long. Five years is a normal time for a game development, and the more time they spend the more content there would be.
I figured out when silksong will release 17/5/25 Or if your American 5/17/25 I got this number by adding up the letters in each word in hollow knight silksong based on it’s position in the English alphabet for example cat c=3 a=1 t=20 and then dividing by the number of letters example cat=8 if you do this with hollow knight silksong you will get 14.17,11.5,13.25, reverse the order and put the decimals in as a date to get 17/5/25 australians write the date day/month/year.
The reason the game isn’t out is because they are Australian and have to fight the giant spiders and snakes. Arguing is not an option because I am Australian and deal with this all the damn time
I love the Silksong sub. Just sitting back and watching as they decend into a copium-induced insanity is something I can't not enjoy. E1331 is somebody you should check out if you haven't heard of or seen him. The Silkposts he posts are quite good and have gotten a few people to believe what he posted was real because they are so good.
theory: team cherry has is in a battle with an eldritch demon that wants to delete silksomg honestly i wouldn't be suprised if at least one redditor believes this
I mean u know Toy Story 2 was almost lost like that, all the files were lost, except someone that was on a maternity leave still had the files on her pc, so u know, I'm not saying it's the case here, but maybe u shouldn't put this theory in F tier x)
The real reason Silksong isn't out yet is that Hornet is still being carried across the wastelands to Pharloom. The initial cutscene was actually highly abridged for the trailers, and is a real time, 8 year simulation simulation of Hornet and her captors walking the 500k miles from Hallownest to Pharloom (canon distance and time, source: My uncle is the Cherry from the Team Cherry logo)
The reason it's taking so long is that they are bugs and very small so they walk slow.
Get those bugs a car NOW!!
I'm kinda jealous that you have such an influential uncle.
And they have to stop for breaks every so often because their legs get tired.
@@lewis9s Even bugs get eepy
Their just tired from carrying hornets THIC self all the way to FAR-loom
Team cherry died. Leth murdered them and is now milking us for his entertainment
Agreed, the recent Team Cherry sightings were just skinwalkers.
@@rusteth_artleth is a skinwalker
Mmm… milk me leth😩
@Bruh-rx6dr what is wrong with you
@@rusteth_art yea exactly
You know we’re cooked when we’re getting 22 minute videos about casually talking about silksong taking forever
but it’s coming soon though.
+ tier lost content
@@LiviaReaper Alright, it's time to take your medicine
@@AveragePerson9 This self deprecating humor where everyone is failing miserably to cope with the fact that they’re gonna have to wait is not funny, stop it. The game is obviously in a finished state, we’re just waiting for it to get ported.
@@LiviaReaper grandpa, it's time to go to bed already, silksong is _not_ coming out tomorrow 🛏
This was a great idea. Well done!
Hello
@@noobmaster69-hq4mi bye :3
i second this
Thanks for the guides dude really helpful
Clickbait title. No mention of the theory about Team Cherry being taken out by one of those Gnarly Australian Kangaroos, or perhaps a Gnarly Australian Spider.
Thats a gnarly theory
The spiders arent that bad here, the biggest I've seen was only the size of my face.
what about a gnarly Aussie drop bear?
A red kangaroo maybe but I think south Australia only has grey kangaroos
SILKSONG can be rearranged to spell LONG KISS
this means that every hollow knight fan must kiss someone for a long time, and only then will silksong release to a fanbase rich in maidens
Darn so it's never getting released I guess...
bold of you to assume i would kiss girls
@@Pearl7sp boykisser teehee
@ i am of the (wrong) opinion that maidens is a gender neutral term, like bitches. Forsooth, he may come into my castle.
@ i actually really love that definition, i vibe with a vibes based maiden term. (although i would still most definitely be the maiden lol)
Team Cherry obviously ascended with Gorb
Ascend with the mommy hips monomon instead
i think that they've actually finished it all and theyre just waiting to release in, like, q1 next year.
unrelated, but the walls of this new room i moved into are super soft and squishy.
Love your new jacket
Crazy?
I was crazy once.
They locked me in a room.
A rubber room.
A rubber room with silksong.
Silksong makes me crazy.
Crazy?
I was crazy once...
Are you trapped in a jar? Is there an insane tall void being maniacally laughing? Are the cushions pinkish red?
My theory is that team Cherry got distracted by making another game. Why else would they pay for a trade mark on Fearless Fox??
It would be like if Crowsworn started working on crow art but then took it way too far and slowed down on Crowsworn development.
I highly doubt this
*sarcasm*
Silksong is actually already completed. Team Cherry just wants to release it with Zoteboat on which they are currently working on
Hm... I heard a story once where some famous author wanted to write a sequel to his book, but he got stuck in writers block and couldn't finish the sequel. So then he started writing a 3rd book without finishing the 2nd, and once that was done he could finish writing the 2nd book. I forget whether it was Sanderson or Stephenson or Sorrenson some other name but I feel like it started with an S and ended in "son".
So maybe Team Cherry got stuck with writer's block or developer's block on Silksong, and decided to develop Zoteboat instead. Then once Zoteboat is completed, then they can finish up Silksong with clearer minds about what story events Silksong needs to set up Zoteboat. Then they can release both games in peace.
Theory Timestamps:
2:59 - Switch 2 launch conspiracy
4:54 - TC lost their twitter password
5:23 - Unity fees
8:11 - Scope creep
10:31 - TC somehow lost the source code
11:32 - Ari and William divorced
13:12 - Silksong got cancelled
14:43 - Yuri image (passion project/development heaven theory)
16:47 - Silksong is a psyop
17:57 - Console ports
20:41 - Silksanity
P.S. i can't believe he put that image in the tierlist but didn't mention the deleted sex scenes joke theory
the deleted what now???
Same, THE WHAT NOW????
My theory is no matter how many times we get put down silksong fans still swarm to every showcase upping the view counts and alternative game sales and game direct so companies are paying them to hold off on releasing it and making them stay contractually radio silent so they can keep those benefits.
Silksong will release when they run out of money
This means that the time until release can be shortened
I think they could be waiting for the switch 2 ngl. I don't even think they signed a deal with Nintendo I just genuinely think that there is a good chance that they got an early dev kit of the console to port and they could be waiting/porting. I know this is a crackhead theory but If the game gets a trailer/news at The Game Awards then it would likely get a Q1 or Q2 release date, very similar to when the Switch 2 could be releasing. Whether they are "waiting" for it or not I for sure think that silksong will come out very near the Switch 2 release.
Also if the scope creep theory is true then the game is going to be way bigger then anyone wants it to be. They said in previous interviews that it doesn't take them that long to add new content, so either the game is gonna be 100 hours long, or they are just taking their time. If they were still adding content even until last year, the game has a really big chance of being double almost triple the size of hollow Knight by the logic of the scope creep theory. If this is true then I am going to be thoroughly disappointed because I don't want a 100 hour long game haha.
Although the most likely reason it that they are porting. I think they may be almost done and they might reveal it at The Game Awards.
Honestly I would be pissed if my game took 8 years and didn’t have at least 100 potential hours of content
Why the hell would you want less content
@@sheepman6785 Believe it or not I don't want a game that takes 100 hours to complete because I don't want to play a single game for 100 hours! I would much rather play five 20hr games. It's really not that complicated to understand.
Silksong being too long would be worse then if it was too short. I want a 40hr game like Hollow Knight.
@@Bobi006 I mean 100 hours as in a first casual play-through. Not a 100% play-through.
@@egg_64. 40 HOURS?? my playthrough is like 60-70 hours now.... what!?? 😭
Two theories first is that Silksong is just not ready yet and it’s a bigger game than Hollow Knight with the same exact team working on the game and the second theory is during development some big element of the game like the main story wasn’t the way the wanted it so Team Cherry had to redo the entire story and everything relating to it in the game
"Hollow Knight itself launched with a lot of bugs in it" Well, yeah.
putting "team cherry forgot the password to their twitter account" at most likely is kind of wild (I know it's a joke)
Imagine as we laugh about plp who takes the "lost the code" seriously. And then it turns out to be true💀
The fact that we don't even know if they're done adding content to the game is so insane to me fr
We have ranked enemies
We have ranked areas
We have ranked bosses
We have ranked benches
We have ranked the freaking _grass_
And now we are ranking theories on why silksong is taking so long
I need the "memes/lore of the subreddit insanity" tier list
I need all background objects ranking
Scopecreep is definitely my biggest theory, but I also don’t think Ari and William having some disagreements is completely implausible. I certainly don’t think it’s personal, or that they hate each other or anything. But I feel like they could be dealing with creative differences. That’s not the most likely theory- again, scopecreep is the one that makes the most sense- but I don’t think it’s silly either.
I know people who genuinely think Silksong is fake. Like, no jokes, they think it’s a scam. Why? They say, “so the developers can trick everyone into going to their current game to make more money!” Like… Team Cherry is not the League of Doom what are you talking about?!?!
I am a firm believer in the Nintendo Launch title conspiracy. even if Prima foolishly put it at F-tier. People didn't believe it when Ninty bought and used BAYONETTA, a pretty sexual and mature game, to bolster the sales of the Wii U. Silksong could fit as a launch title.
inb4 people call me a reddit bitch: I don't use reddit.
nah but it’s releasing on all other consoles as well same day. theoretically it shouldn’t if Nintendo buys the IP
Also Xbox Game Pass Day One
@@ErrorNumber404 sure, but just consider for a moment that Nintendo isn't actually enforcing it, but Team Cherry is. They know Nintendo advertised it, they know the sales numbers for the original on the switch 1. You have to admit that if they waited for Switch 2 to be out for a couple weeks- then dropped it, their sales numbers would be marginally higher, and they might be banking on that. I mean why release it now if you could release it in 3 months and sell 35% more copies, they aren't hurting for money, might as well set it up right?
@@williamswartwood86 see that makes more sense than the OG commenter. I would rank that B tier still, I think scope creep’s the reason more than anything (and would trump this potential reason if it came down to it).
theory: team cherry got so dam sick of rule34 art for their funny little bug game, they just stopped, to end the suffering.
18:09 well I’d hope it launched with lots of bugs, those are the things the game is about!
The silksong announcment was a dream
Now do a Tier List of the most likable dates for SilkSong to come out in the period 2025-9025
My theory is that they're done with content (or atleast, should be) and are busy with polishing and porting the game. But the silence is due to the hungry, cut-throat community. I firmly believe the game's release is on the horizon and shouldn't be any later than 2025 or 2026 (though if I'm wrong, you can publicly shame me with a million "I told you so"s). But I'm also worried if Silksong doesn't live up to it's high expectations, Team Cherry will end up in the same position as the Hotline Miami devs. Overall, the fans just need to chill out and be patient.
Score creep is very common for small teams and solos. For example, geometry dash 2.2. It started from "small update" and ended with "3x of 2.1 content", which had been in development for 7 years. I believe, the silksong situation is pretty the same, it also started from small (dlc)
Did you mean “had been” instead of “has been” because 2.2 has been out for like a year
@@beef_baby Yes. I mistyped
I think they got addicted to r/gooncaves and fell into a depression after the subreddit disappeared, and are now too sad to work on the game
Can’t wait for the next trailer to do a dynamic camera turn to reveal it was actually going to be a 3d collectathon the entire time
0:20 *gasp* OH NO, NOT THE SUBREDDIT
The silksong sub isn't even fun anymore. Majority of people there just hate Team Cherry and it's absolutely disgusting. I just left that sub.
@ I don’t even use reddit
the falling out argument has more merit than you think. Imagine a situation where the team has two mutually exclusive options. One person is in favor of one and one - the other. This can be really dividing and although I believe that in such a big project that wouldn't be very time consuming because they are time pressed and would probably sort it out but it's still very probable.
This kinda fits into scope creep but I thought about how in the trailers and stuff their is far more life in the world of Pharloom then ever was in hollownest. Also Ari is clearly a talented and perfectionist artist. These two things had me thinking with the layered art strategy that they use. I’d wager they are polishing the games liveliness a ton. And that’s not as easy as it sounds assuming their are not issues in the code you have to plan out how your different “rooms” or segments of the world play out in the background of the players experience without it seeming like a game. This involves worked out and finalized art, animations and then a ton of coding to ensure that the world actually feel alive and not “Gamey”. Knowing how Ari and William work I’d wager this is a big part of the slowness of development. Not only are they adding a lot but they are perfecting everything as well the environments and features and interactions with the world. Also it’s worth noting that while William is by no means a bad Programmer he was no master when he helped make hollowknight. They used a system that runs visual code rather than standard code for a lot of the game. This is typically less efficient and is used by people still learning to code traditionally.
I think that team cherry died in the ocean gate sub. They covered it up and said that it was a bunch of rich people but we all know the truth…
One thing to point out is, a lot of the likeliest issues are making each other issue compounded. The Scope Creep/Passion points were mentioned but the console port issue is also getting exacerbated by how long the the game has been in development. Back when the game was announced it was just the PS4, XBone and Switch. But now we've not only got those but the PS5, whatever that next Xbox console was, and now we've got the Switch 2 coming over the horizon. The development has lasted so long that the current gen is becoming obsolete and now they have to worry about either throwing away their work on the older ports, or try to port it to EVERYTHING. Which just gets worse as time goes on thanks to the scope creep ladden development.
It's basically a triple threat powder keg at this rate.
I believe they're just taking time to savor their creation that they have created.
Theory: The never-ending thirst of the HK community has driven TC mad, and as vengeance they withold information... silksong has been ready for years, as a final barrier should the community fall... it's just a matter of when
As an indie game dev, I personally think that it is the “scope creep” one because it is honestly super difficult to decide when enough is enough. It would be even worse if you published a game as huge as hollow knight, the expectations would be so high and you just wouldn’t know if you made enough content
It’s because they wanna make every Silksong copy personalized. that’s my theory.
i mean... nintendo literally did that with hollow knight, they asked hollow knight to release on the nintendo switch because they lacked indie titles and thats how hollow knight became one of the biggest top sellers on the nintendo
My theory is that Team Cherry is being sued because of a song called precisely "Silksong", and because of that they not only need to come up with a new name that makes sence but also change all concepts related to music and that stuff, NPC's and enemy/boss designs, quests and many areas around the map.
My sources told me that instead the will replace "Song", with "Illicit Substances" being the 2 more predominant "Coppium" and a new one craft from the substance resulting from the infection from the original game that's going 5o be called "InFesta".
this isnt me coping, but its a genuine theory i have that its going to release february of next year. 1. they went out to conventions, now developers going out on vacations doesnt mean that they MUST be done with the game, sometimes devs need to take a break and thats completely understandable. But looking at how many years its been in development, and that porting theory you mentioned, i think its pretty safe to say that they are done and that its just waiting to be fully ported. 2. Why february of next year? Someone mentioned in a video i watched that team cherry does NOT intend on releasing their game by the end of the year, because of other massive game studios that will release their game, it wont maximize silksongs sales and that will have some issues. 3. hollow knight took about 4 years to finish, thats including porting, and if silksong is going to be considerably larger than hollow knight, i think its pretty safe to assume that the 1 extra year they took is to add those few extra content to make silksong bigger than hollow knight. (also ive never wrote a comment this long, it goes to show how much im coping for this game lol)
My personal theory is that team cherry is going to release zoteboat along with silksong
It’s taking so long because team cherry won’t develop it before completing path of pain
I really hope it's scope creep. That just means that Silksong will be That much more full. I think they may also be making it bigger so that it can hold us over till their next game because I'm pretty sure they know Fearless Fox will take years to make, considering their game making mentality.
A theory my friends have come up with as a joke is that the devs forgot about it untill people started talking about it at summer game fest and they have only started making it now, i also dont think unity would be a factor as silksong won an award for unity most wanted
My theory can be summarized in 1 word:
Yanderedev
Day fifteen of giving primacon random rainworld tips and very real spoilers until he continues his rainworld playthrough.
Tip of the day: After incapacitating you lizards will bring you back to their den, if they take any damage during this they will drop you. this rule also applys to scavengers, if you can get one out of a sticky situation your reputation with scavengers will increase.
Spoiler of the day: imagine being araraura, now imagine having to write a easy enough to understand tip about a obscure indie game every. single. day. you hold the keys to get me out this torturous cell primacon, you know what its like being in jail, you were just in it just yesterday. please send help.
Bro looking like Markiplier in that intro
“Aliens bro” thats why
SILKSONG!!!
I know that Team Cherry was bought by Ubisoft and that Silksong will be a Dlc for AC Shadow. It will be a Doktor Mario like and it will come in October 2025
18:24 Agreed. The last thing we want is for Silksong to become another BTD Battles 2.
About the Unity situation:
1. The EA CEO was fired
2. The runtime fee was cancelled completely
Honestly, I would kinda love it if they just keep scope creeping for another 10 years and we just get a 500 hour game with 200 areas and 300 bosses
well, that should be fun
My theory is that the game is almost done, Team Cherry only has one big area left. It is similar to colosseum of fools but it is a circus where everyone is waiting for something. And to not die of waiting everyone in the circus uses a substance called "hope". This is 100% confirmed, my sister is Hornet.
P. S. :When I asked her is she void, she answered "yes". And I put "theory" at the start for no reason, I forgot it was 100% confirmed.
How about being scared of mossbag deciphering anything they reveal😂
In parallel with Silksong, they also developing Fearless fox
I tried
7:10 Godot is pronounced "Guh Doe" just FYI
5:08 This is actually pretty possible. Recently tried to use my inactive Twitter account and it was so difficult to access since it didn’t let me change my password for some reason.
Everyone in TC got murdered by crazed silksong fans who were gonna publish the game themselves after obtaining it, but Ari pressed a self destruct button and deleted the entire game, so now the crazed fans are scrambling to make a new passable game themselves while posing as TC
I’m not ruling anything out. It’s honestly baffling that it hasn’t released. I hope it comes out one day.
Leth is an assassin sent by Mongoose Rodeo to eliminate the competition
Team cherry dreamed. They got infected. Team cherry is being controlled by Radiance, and Radiance still wants to be in the spotlight.
New Theory: Silksong got too big and Team Cherry ran out of bug species from real life so they had to make their own
I'm feeling optimistic. Now that Subnautica 2 has been shown off, I'm back in my Subnautica phase and ignoring Silksong for a bit, up until the game awards. I have a big feeling for Winter 2025, which makes me suspect some trailer as early as the game awards up until maybe early march. If not, then we got a whole other year to wait. I'm telling y'all, 2025 is the year of gaming.
Yesss subnautica 2, civilization 7, slay the spire 2. Big year.
Sapphic bugs could be a factor to why Silksong isn’t out yet.
Recently Unity retracted their statement on the new policy and I suggested a theory that Silksong was almost completely done on Godot, but now that Unity is safe again they are porting it back to Unity, anything to delay the release
I just realized that Primacon has that serial unaliver fit.
we reallly are going mad as a community
Those comments are so funny 🙏🙏
We hit a parallel universe where silksong isnt real and we all look insane
The real reason that Silksong is not out yet is because Deep Boy was actually secretly Silksong all along and will be releasing in the year 2069
There we go again...
Trying to keep Primacon away from SilkSong cope is like trying to keep a moth away from fire...
Oh no! (Hollow Knight: OST - Radiance starts playing).
its because there trying to animate a 6 hour long Hornet x Lace cutscene and animation takes awhile
i havent watched your whole video yet...but did you discuss how team cherry might have turned all of their focus to develop DEEP BOY
Bro I haven't though about silksong for so long i was startint to believe it never even happened...but i got reminded it's somewhat "real" today 😅😅😅😅
A big think is like. We dk whats happening in their personal lives. They could be dealing with health problems or family issues or burnout and we just dont know 🤷♂️
Yes, this is REAL content
Best theory is that it's already been released for years and tc just forgot to tell us
14:13 oh noo bro is getting insane
Skong is a social experiment
To be fair to the first theory, Hollow Knight actually was listed as a launch title for the switch to pad out their launch roster.
Still not the best theory, but it’s not as far fetched given that Nintendo actually has done this before
Honestly, I don't think it takes too long. Five years is a normal time for a game development, and the more time they spend the more content there would be.
mr silksong guy provides
I figured out when silksong will release 17/5/25
Or if your American 5/17/25 I got this number by adding up the letters in each word in hollow knight silksong based on it’s position in the English alphabet for example cat c=3 a=1 t=20 and then dividing by the number of letters example cat=8 if you do this with hollow knight silksong you will get 14.17,11.5,13.25, reverse the order and put the decimals in as a date to get 17/5/25 australians write the date day/month/year.
Theory: Ari got arrested for shooting that guy in the cafe
You realize actual indie games released day one on switch soooooo
My theory is that Team Cherry wanted to 100% the game before releasing it and it takes years to do.
Personally I think it’s because they are perfectionists and they want silksong to live up to the absolute Goliath that was hollow knight
The reason why silk song is not out is because hornet is still trapped and the entire game is in her head
no way we god GD 2.2 before silk song
It's funny that my theory isn't anywhere on here.... Maybe they're waiting out their gamepass contract.
Give him four years and he'll be ranking all his rankings of why silksong hasn't came out yet
The reason the game isn’t out is because they are Australian and have to fight the giant spiders and snakes. Arguing is not an option because I am Australian and deal with this all the damn time
I love the Silksong sub. Just sitting back and watching as they decend into a copium-induced insanity is something I can't not enjoy.
E1331 is somebody you should check out if you haven't heard of or seen him. The Silkposts he posts are quite good and have gotten a few people to believe what he posted was real because they are so good.
theory: team cherry has is in a battle with an eldritch demon that wants to delete silksomg
honestly i wouldn't be suprised if at least one redditor believes this
I mean u know Toy Story 2 was almost lost like that, all the files were lost, except someone that was on a maternity leave still had the files on her pc, so u know, I'm not saying it's the case here, but maybe u shouldn't put this theory in F tier x)