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Ashley Bardhan

Silksong is huge, but it's way huger on PC: Steam was Team Cherry's biggest US platform, analyst says, and the game didn't even break top 50 on PlayStation

Hornet clashes with the pinstress in Hollow Knight: Silksong in a training cutscene.

Hollow Knight: Silksong started tallying some bonkers numbers on Steam charts almost immediately after developer Team Cherry released the long-awaited Metroidvania on September 4, but Silksong seems to be living a very different life on console.

Circana video game industry analyst Mat Piscatella reveals in a series of BlueSky posts that, while Silksong had a wildly successful PC launch – as of writing, its number of concurrents peaked last week with a staggering 587,150 players – it's stumbling a little console, mainly PlayStation. At least in the US.

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