I'm calling it now. 2026

[Ranni the Witch]

Here's my timeline

June 2024: SGF, no news
Radio silence
December 2024: TGA, no news
Radio silence
February 2025: "We're still hard at work guys" Leth posts on discord
June 2025: SGF, no news
Radio silence
December 2025: TGA, no news
February 2026: Release date announced for June 2026
Radio silence
June 2026: delay announcement from Leth
Game releases Q4 2026

[ChekinNooget]

bzzzt

nah man we're getting news at the sgf

[Phirestar]

You know, I think that if they were willing to have Leth come out and straight up say, “We planned on releasing Silksong in 2023, but development is continuing.”, then that probably means that the game is going to come out sometime in the near future, like 2024.

Because if that’s not the case, and Silksong is going to end up releasing 2-3 years from now, then coming out with that statement last year would potentially make them look really bad in the public eye by the end of all this. It would bring into question their ability to manage their development time properly. People would be asking stuff like, “Do they actually know what they’re doing? How could they overestimate a launch window by several years? Were they planning to release the game well before it was finished?”

Without any other context around why the delay happened for that length of time, I believe it would make people lose a lot of confidence in the project, and in Team Cherry themselves. At its worst, it would pretty much confirm peoples’ fears / suspicions that the game is in development hell, and they’d want an answer to the lack of transparency.

[Ranni the Witch]

Originally posted by Phirestar:

You know, I think that if they were willing to have Leth come out and straight up say, “We planned on releasing Silksong in 2023, but development is continuing.”, then that probably means that the game is going to come out sometime in the near future, like 2024.

Because if that’s not the case, and Silksong is going to end up releasing 2-3 years from now, then coming out with that statement last year would potentially make them look really bad in the public eye by the end of all this. It would bring into question their ability to manage their development time properly. People would be asking stuff like, “Do they actually know what they’re doing? How could they overestimate a launch window by several years? Were they planning to release the game well before it was finished?”

Without any other context around why the delay happened for that length of time, I believe it would make people lose a lot of confidence in the project, and in Team Cherry themselves. At its worst, it would pretty much confirm peoples’ fears / suspicions that the game is in development hell, and they’d want an answer to the lack of transparency.

The problem with this is the "public eye" treats team cherry like they can do no wrong. If you bring up the delay, people say it's because TC is just "adding more content, it'll be worth it when the game comes out. You'll see." The impression that the delay is just to add more stuff means people will be okay with a delay of literally any length of time. They won't question 0 communication and a 3 year delay because they think it will be worth it.

TC has fallen into this trap where they've grown such a reputation for not communicating that if they say anything, people will assume the game is on the way. However, they don't have to say anything. Anyone who brings up a lack of communication and transparency gets swarmed by a bunch of HK fans being white knights.

[Ranni the Witch]

Originally posted by ChekinNooget:

bzzzt

nah man we're getting news at the sgf

Uh huh, sure we are