Since Silksong’s suprise launch date reveal last week, I’ve noticed at least four games scrambling to move their release dates, and other ones like PEAK acknowledging “hey, guess you’ll be abandoning us in 2 weeks.” Everyone is moving out of the way; it’s an absolutely hype juggernaut of a game that a lot of people have been waiting for.
But Polygon raises an interesting point… is it fair for them to bellyflop into the release schedule with so little notice for other indie games trying to find their moment?
So…should Silksong schedule it’s release date around every other indie game to be released? I doubt people would ask the same thing of a shadow drop from Ubisoft or Bethesda.
You don’t want to release your Indie game the same weekend that EA drops BF6 or Take Two finally launches GTA6 (you probably want to keep at least 2 months of space around that one and then again when the PC release drops 2-5 years down the road)
If the main argument to play a game was ‘I guess nothing else is coming out’ the bigger issue is lack of readons to actually want to play it.
I absolutely HATE to agree with Polygon on anything, but I think it was a bad move by Team Cherry to not only keep the release date secret for as long as they did, but also to make it so close after its own announcement.