Hollow Knight Reaches 15 Million Copies Sold

As Team Cherry finally, genuinely nails down a merchandise day for Hollow Knight: Silksong, the workplace has confirmed the archetypal crippled has managed to scope 15 cardinal copies sold.

A income update for the bleak and beloved metroidvania rubric comes from Bloomberg, which spoke with Team Cherry up of today’s long-awaited merchandise day reveal. Along with a swarm of details astir what took the squad truthful agelong to decorativeness its sequel, the workplace confirmed that 2017’s Hollow Knight has officially sold 15 cardinal units crossed PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.

It’s impervious Hollow Knight had plentifulness of staying powerfulness successful the 8 years since launch, arsenic players person not-so-patiently awaited quality for a sequel. One cardinal of its income were reached successful its archetypal twelvemonth connected PC, alone, with its June 2018 Switch motorboat and September 2018 PS4 and Xbox One motorboat lone giving players much avenues to prime up a copy. More than anything, it’s wide the unending hype for Hollow Knight: Silksong quality lone bolstered income of the archetypal crippled successful the past six years.

Reaching the 15 cardinal people is 1 milestone not galore autarkic games negociate to achieve, cementing its bug-filled satellite and crushing gameplay arsenic a peculiarly important beingness for gaming going forward. We’ll spot much of that beingness erstwhile Hollow Knight: Silksong yet launches for PC, Switch, Switch 2, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X | S September 4, 2025.

Team Cherry already has much contented successful the works for the sequel, truthful if you thought you were done waiting for much Hollow Knight content, get acceptable to hold immoderate more. In the meantime, you tin cheque retired our archetypal 9.4/10 Hollow Knight review.

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