Leaks recommend the long-awaited Hollow Knight Silksong will retail digitally for $20 – solely a modest leap from the primary recreation within the sequence, which got here out eight complete years in the past.
Hollow Knight followers had been fast to identify and share a now-deleted Gamestop itemizing for Silksong’s Switch 2 model, which allegedly retailed for $20. Of course, this might have simply been a placeholder itemizing since a number of commentors claimed they could not undergo checkout and truly buy the sequel.
But where there’s smoke, there’s fire, and normally-reliable leaker Billbil-Kun corroborated the itemizing with their very own “recent research”, all however confirming that Silksong will, in reality, value about $20. According to them, the ultimate retail value on Steam will probably be $19.99/£16.75/€19.50 with barely diversified GOG pricing.
Prices for consoles nonetheless stay a thriller and there is a probability the above prices are additionally topic to alter, but when all of the rumblings develop into true, then Team Cherry’s solely bumped up the value from the unique by $5 or so. 2017’s Hollow Knight prices $15 within the USA with out a low cost, so the alleged Silksong value is much extra affordable than most individuals anticipated from a sequel that is been in growth for nearly a decade.
Plus, gaming prices have gone up throughout the board. Some publishers have tried to push $80 AAA video games onto the market, whereas others are glad to stay with a nonetheless expensive $70 tag. And even different indie video games like Hades 2 are understandably costlier than their predecessors, making a $5 leap a reasonably whole lot.
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