If this is what happened over Silksong I just imagine how bad will PSN and Xbox chug once GTA VI is released, and also how badly Steam will crash once it comes to PC.
You better believe that Rockstar will be doing preorders as well. Those sales will be spread out over weeks, so won’t experience the congestion caused by Silksong.
really. i had no idea hollow knight was that popular, for me it was just a plucky little indie metroidvania. i don’t even recall seeing much about it online in recent years. guess the fandom must have kept to themselves.
The Hollow Knight fandom has literally been going schizophrenic for the past 6 years because nobody knew or not if Silksong was actually on development, or if it was going through development hell, or even if it was going to be cancelled, and it didn’t help that the devs were SILENT for that entire time. Turns out, the game was actually being made this entire time and only took this long because they kept adding every idea they had into it, so it was actually going through development heaven lol
Yeah, the fandom never died. There’s just no other platformer like it, the controls are so tight and the game itself is extremely well polished
People still do speed runs of Mario 64 and ocarina of time, Hollow Knight is like… Objectively the best 2D platformer of all time. It is singular, the games that inspired it and the games that copy it don’t compare
Although so far, Silksong has not disappointed, it took forever but it’s actually living up to expectations so far
I don’t think it will be 100. That was just speculation from economics junkies who want to wish it into existence because they have Rockstar stock. Mario Kart World has literally not sold at all outside of the Switch 2 bundle specifically because it’s 80. I’m pretty sure every other gaming company saw that and affirmed they wouldn’t make their games more expensive than 70.
If this is what happened over Silksong I just imagine how bad will PSN and Xbox chug once GTA VI is released, and also how badly Steam will crash once it comes to PC.
Honestly, I don’t think it will be this busy.
Silksong was the most wishlisted game on the platform, coupled with the fact they’re selling it for $20 USD
GTA VI will be a huge release, but there is no way Rockstar sells it for anything less than $100 which is going to price a huge amount of people out.
You better believe that Rockstar will be doing preorders as well. Those sales will be spread out over weeks, so won’t experience the congestion caused by Silksong.
Silksong also didn’t presale and by extension had no way to early download. I think they didn’t want data miners and spoilers.
It wasn’t actually the download infrastructure that crashed steam, it was the payment APIs (my cart didn’t work for a full 2 1/2 hours!)
Steam pre-downloads are encrypted.
really. i had no idea hollow knight was that popular, for me it was just a plucky little indie metroidvania. i don’t even recall seeing much about it online in recent years. guess the fandom must have kept to themselves.
The Hollow Knight fandom has literally been going schizophrenic for the past 6 years because nobody knew or not if Silksong was actually on development, or if it was going through development hell, or even if it was going to be cancelled, and it didn’t help that the devs were SILENT for that entire time. Turns out, the game was actually being made this entire time and only took this long because they kept adding every idea they had into it, so it was actually going through development heaven lol
We were sacrificing people on reddit in the Hollow Knight sub in order to get the game released before I left there. I still volunteer as tribute.
Yeah, the fandom never died. There’s just no other platformer like it, the controls are so tight and the game itself is extremely well polished
People still do speed runs of Mario 64 and ocarina of time, Hollow Knight is like… Objectively the best 2D platformer of all time. It is singular, the games that inspired it and the games that copy it don’t compare
Although so far, Silksong has not disappointed, it took forever but it’s actually living up to expectations so far
objectively sounds a bit much. i found it ok.
Cool. There’s an estimated 324k blood transfusions per day. This beat that
It’s essentially an objective measurement
…what?
I don’t think it will be 100. That was just speculation from economics junkies who want to wish it into existence because they have Rockstar stock. Mario Kart World has literally not sold at all outside of the Switch 2 bundle specifically because it’s 80. I’m pretty sure every other gaming company saw that and affirmed they wouldn’t make their games more expensive than 70.