What caused this phenomenon? it has to be more than one thing.
>>719854039NPCs
wouldn't deltarune be the apt comparison
>>719854135>>719854135
ban steam charts threads
>>719854039i wonder of the years-long heavily memed pseudo organic hype campaign had anything to do with it?
Why are numberfags and this website the otp? Doesn't matter the subject matter if it's talked about SEAfag numberniggers will be there
>>719854258i don't think so, but even if it's true then the other games shown on op's pic did the same and yet can't compare to silksongno this is something else
>>719854317It's NPCs>>719854135Stop trying to figure out normalfags. They're just brainless cattle zombieIt's not difficultBe better than them
I think people seriously underestimate the value of $20 vs $60-$80
Hollow Knight was a really good game.
>>719854039probably because Silksong doesn't have Hornet with a giant afro talking about how the "evil colonizing White bugs" need to be destroyed while having a blue, pink, and white carapace
>>719854473>"It's we female bugs who put the eggs!"
>make good game>charge $20seems reasonable
>>7198540397 years of dev time and can't even break 600k? Rough. That's fucking rough.
>>719854039>indie game that's 1/3rd of the price, highly anticipated even before it's official announcement, just released is doing better than games that came out a year priormust be woke
>>719854813It's gonna crack a million players tonight
>>719854871BUGS RIGHT BUGS RIGHTS, deal with it chud
>>719854039>comparing anything to dragon age veilguardcome on man the only people playing that slop are mentally ill troons
>>719854135FPBPFuck normalfags
chudcels lost
>>719854813It's steamThere's already at least 5 million playing on switch and Xbox gamepassUse your brain idiot
>>719854039People sleep, have lives, work and routine outside of 4chan. Shocking, I know.
>>719854039Its Reddits critical darlingReddit owns this, its their game
>>719854039I feel at this point all is left is to know how much money did team cherry spent on silksong to complete the humiliation circle.
>>719855160Only 5 million?
>>719854448this.if it was $60, nobody would buy this shit.
>>719855556What the fuck are those numbers?
>>719854039>make fun gamevs>make bad game designed by a jewish committee specifically to use as anti-white propagandawowowowow who could have predicted?
>>719855709Not true. Hardcore HK fans would buy it, but it certainly wouldn't hit 500k concurrent. Maybe 100k tops.
Memes.>"it will never come out!"It is now associated with GTA 6, Half Life 3, and Elder Scrolls 6
Hatred for boomer reviewers who should have found a different line of work in the 2000s. What else could it be?
>>719854039It's safe to say that /v/'s constant whining and seething about this game gave it a significant boost. if only the doomtrannies shut their mouths, we'd have at most 2 silksong threads on the catalog. but no, they have to let everyone know how angry they are about this game.
why do you fags get mad when any game does well
>>719854039It's cheap and the first game was popular
>>719854039It's a real game for 20$, not a propaganda disguised as UE5 slop for 80$.
it's over, unfortunately.
>>719856864Are we sure it won't reach 2 billion during the weekend?
>>719857040it's over. number went down.
>>719857264I believe
trannies
>>719854039I almost FOMOed into buying this game
>>719854039It's popular because it's fucking cheap and even a 300$ potato laptop can play it (i.e. accessibility for poor turd worlders).
>>719854039I seriously did not think many would care. Turns out 80% of my friends list is playing the damn thing.
>>719854039real question is where the fuck did all those people come from? hollow knight had nowhere near the figures, and that's with the very recent peak in mind.
bug pussy $20
>>719857912
>>719854135Tripple A company wish they have this much power commanding the NPCs
>>719858217imagine being 12 and hearing>silksong never everbefore you get into high school>and then>silksong never everall through your high school career, and then it's>SILKSONG REALnow that you're out of school.
>>719854135fpbp
>>719854135But will NPCs stick with a metroidvania?
>>719854039Public perception of something heavily impacts how it will perform. Select very vocal fanboys that waited 7 years did their best to drum up hype especially when the release date was announced. Amplified by e-celebs to twitch zoomers. Then finally reached critical mass from journo scum running clickbait articles about it which gave free advertising and publicity for the otherwise >who tier game that nobody has talked about for years and many forget even existed.Conversely, all it takes to doom a game is an e-celeb or two saying bad things about it and you've already lost like 60% of the potential consumer base.Unless you mean green line threads. That phenomenon is zoomer faggots obsessed with consumerism using green line to validate their opinion
>>719856640nobody cares about /v/ bro
>>719854039Move aside peasant
>>719858705there's nothing to really stick to. this is not some massive crpg. I imagine it's a game that will last a week, tops. most likely will fall off after this weekend. like others have said it's simply the perfect storm of waiting, word of mouth marketing and already existing audience.
>>719858705they stuck with elden ring's difficult, they stuck with baldurs gates clunky dogshit battle system, they can handle a platformers
>>719854039When only shit games are being released even a mediocre game looks like a 10/10.
>>719854039It's a "video game" video game, not a "cinematic experience", people are STARVING for those.
>>719858805I played CS2 yesterday and my team was Russians who complained even when we won.
>>719854039>>719854135it's fucking insulting. This low quality, poorly drawn platformer has 1000s of reviews already.Meanwhile truly well made platformers with way more effort put into them like Corn Kidz 64 have barely more than 1500 reviews.
>>719859149i won't buy your shit game
>>719859176and I wont buy yours.
>>719859149Holy lol. Who names a game 64 when it's not even for Nintendo 64.
>>719859149You are delusional if you think this ps1 visual mess looks better than Silksong.
>>719854039it's dirt cheapI've never played Hollow Knight and I kinda want to get Silksong because it's cheap and there's nothing to play
>>719859270But this is 64 bits. Just like every game these days.
>>719858705That's the beauty of it, they don't have to stick with it, they just have to be "in the moment". See: Deltarune.
>>719859270you are delusion if you think 60 fps N64 peak isn't better than 10 fps flash slop without any shading.
Couldn't even make it to 11...
>>719854039It's a flash-tier 2d platformer for 20$ that runs on pentium and has been shilled by it's obsessed community for 7 years. Most of these people never heard about it, simply jumping on the hypewagon in the total absence of games.If this is default metroidvania is the most awaited game of 2025 its time to search for a new hobbie because this industry is officially dead.
Streamers told Zoomers to buy product and they did. Within 3 days it'll be down to 1k or so because adhd kiddies need to jump back and watch papa streamer tell them how to think next. Regardless of the truth I'm still glad indie shit can pull numbers even if it's bottom of the barrel indie shit.
>original game was generally very well received>sequel announced>sequel takes a long time, but keeps getting shown in random places>people talk about it>it becomes a community meme that its taking a long time and getting delayed>meme gains traction, and since the game is on many platforms, it can show up anywhere, fueling the meme even more>name of the game becomes synonymous with game announcement shows as a whole >game finally gets dated, almost no lead time which means even more discussion>game is very very cheap by most modern standards so is easily purchasable on a whim from people who know it from the meme and discussionSo just basically good legacy + meme status + good value
>>719859321Switch 2 runs Silksong 4k 60 fps by the way.
>>719859570lol you're a moron who doesn't understand.the games assets are animated at 10 fps and below.the animation is so lazy it has barely any frames.
>>719859919Cartoony 2D animation with more frames would look like a puke. I played like 2 hours yesterday but Silksong has a good looking consistend art style.
>>719854039People want to play this game. People don't want to play those other games. Really that simple.
>>719859017Fuck off Volodomy Chernobog.
>>719860097>Cartoony 2D animation with more frames would look like a pukeLOL cope This is Disney. they animate at a average of 25 fps.get BTFO. HK animation looks like puke in comparison.
>>719860205Now give me a game with similiar animation that doesn't look like ass.
>>719860236So cuphead?or do you want shitty blob/stick figure character like HK?because you realize those characters are infinitely easier to animate.
>>719860236Toonstruck
>>719860417Cuphead yeah but that's the whole gimmick of the game. For sure Hollow Knight is easier to animate but who the fuck cares?
>>719860484Well when you have simplistic stick characters like Fancy Pants, you can afford really smooth 30 fps animation.so it shows intense laziness to animate them with so few frames.and more to the point. -low FPS animation look bad.-no shading looks badergo the game doesn't look good.
>>719860686I'm not an animator. I'm a game buyer and player and it looks great to me because of the art style. Which shit like >>719859149 lacks.
>>719860775Well you can see all the animation, movement and transitions are top notch.do you think it looks bad because it's a heavily compressed tiny gif?or do you think it looks bad you don't like stylized low poly based on games like Banjo?
>>719861156No it's the art style. Which is an uneven mess. It's a mix of every color and I don't get any vibe from it.
>>719856864silksisters... not like this
test
>>719861156>>719861324Like I'm not sure if you get it. Okarina of time and even Mario 64 look great because their levels have their own color grading and specific tone they set. You can't just put in N64 props and do whatever. It becomes a complete mess.
>>719858081yeah, palworld took off because it was cheap too
>>719859149That wending machine is neon green because I guess it's supposed to be visible for the player. But you don't do it like that because it looks horrible against the world. You paint it gray and assume that the player knows how to use the vending machine game mechanic.
>>719854039>cheap, hyped game sells wellwow!!
>>719854135oof
>>719854039>What caused this phenomenon? it has to be more than one thing.Third-world countries can't afford anything that costs more than 10$, and it is super cheap in countries like India and China.
>>719854039>What caused this phenomenon?Millennials. They are fighting against le evil corporations by buying every indieslop.
>>719854165No that's a visual novel not a game.
>>719854039streamer induced fomo.
>>719854135Fippy Bippy
>>719854039Every marketing event had people screaming "SILKSONG SILKSONG?" for years.Has been great marketing. Game is good, dont get me wrong
>>719862886and? the other developers for sure did the same and yet loo at the numbers
>>719862886It's a similar phenomenon to Elden Ring. You tease your fans with a new game but take longer than expected to deliver, and over the years the fans will spread word of mouth by themselves which just snowballs further with every gaming news event until the entire world is frothing at the mouth for the slightest scrap of information on the game. All the game has to do at that point is not be completely unplayable at release and you'll get these insane numbers. If marketing people in the industry were smart, they'd be taking notes from this before they greenlight the next billion dollar ad campaign for a game that ends up not even performing 5% as well.
>>719864227>If marketing people in the industry were smart, they'd be taking notes from thisif marketing did this, marketing wouldn't exist, because they'd fire everyone. marketing's job is to make sure marketing has a job.
>>719864227>You tease your fans with a new game but take longer than expected to deliver, and over the years the fans will spread word of mouth by themselves which just snowballs further with every gaming news event until the entire world is frothing at the mouth for the slightest scrap of information on the game.How is it that this never happens with any other game?
>>719864741Half-Life III
>>719858705It is THE NPC genre.
Baww those poor AAA shareholdersTheir shit doesn't sell and bug game outsold all of them combined in just 3 hours
>>719854039The hype and fanfare doesn't really feel organic to me. It's just a 2D metroidvania, nothing special no matter how "good" it may be. Absolutely absurd how people are treating it on the level as, say, Half-Life 3 or something.Also noticed it's fandom pretty much consists of transformers/pedophiles, and Nintenkid adults who are unfamiliar with the concept of showers.
>>719854039It's the same as BG3 and that French game.People are tired of AAA crap so they choose some decent AA or indie game and hype it up like crazy to spite all the big publishers. If people really wanted Silksong or other these games they would at least play the original or other games of the genre.It's most noticeable with BG3 where despite its huge success other CRPGs haven't gained any new players because these people don't play games that aren't popular.
>>719864741> Duke Nukem EffectVs> Silksong Phenomenon
>>719854039Troons have to job and need to stay home to dilate.
>>719854914The sunday peak is usually the highest.
>>719858217Hollow Knight had smaller waves of people trying it over a period of 8 years
No one knows how something that is merely OK gets this amount of attention. If they did they would replicate themselves. To top it off it's a game that a disciplined team could have cranked out in a year.
