Hollow Knight: Silksong has released today and the major video game storefronts are struggling to stay online. Shortly after Silksong’s 10 AM ET release time, Steam, the Nintendo eShop, Xbox, and PlayStation were either displaying error messages or failed to load entirely.
The hype for Silksong has also been a boon to the original Hollow Knight. In the days before Silksong’s release, Hollow Knight has gotten a significant bump on the Steam charts, boasting its highest concurrent player count ever seven years after its release in 2017. Silksong has already beaten Hollow Knight’s record as SteamDB reports there are currently over 98,000 concurrent players right now. That number will only grow as players continue to trickle in while Steam and the other gaming storefronts start functioning normally again.
