Hollow Knight Silksong causes an avalanche: all Steam stores, Switch 2 eShop, PS5 Store, etc. crash...

At 8:00 a.m. ET on September 4, the inevitable happened. Hollow Knight Silksong has finally been released, but no one can buy it. The reason? The flood of people has caused Steam, the Nintendo eShop on Switch 2, the PlayStation Store, and the Microsoft Store on Xbox to crash at the same time. We will keep you informed when they are back up.

Have Steam and the Nintendo eShop crashed following the release of Hollow Knight Silksong?

Yes, you read that right. All the stores where it has appeared have crashed under the avalanche of people trying to buy it. Team Cherry is celebrating its release, but very few have actually been able to buy it in these first few minutes on the market.

There are some lucky ones who have been able to buy it on PC through Steam

Those who logged into Steam at the right moment as soon as it was released have been able to get their hands on the game. We can see this in the statistics. At the time of writing, there are already 75,000 players on the platform. PC is one of the few places where some people are already hooked on Team Cherry’s game. However, if you’re on console, you’re out of luck until people stop trying to log in.

As I finish writing this, some of the stores have already begun to recover. It’s time to see if Silksong was worth the wait.

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