Silksong’s release date announcement destroys every other Gamescom video for YouTube viewership

Dylan Horetski
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Team Cherry’s video reveal of the release date for Hollow Knight: Silksong was the second -viewed videos on YouTube, losing only to Nintendo’s Kirby Air Riders direct.

After almost a decade of waiting, Team Cherry has finally revealed Silksong’s release date: September 4, 2025.

They did so in a special announcement video on YouTube that had hundreds of thousands of fans watching for the less than two-minute stream.

So many fans, in fact, that Streams Charts says it was the second most-watched video on YouTube that whole week.

Over 300k fans tuned in

According to StreamsCharts, the Hollow Knight release date announcement brought in 323,297 peak viewers and maintained an overall average of 107,000.

This made the Team Cherry YouTube channel the second most popular YouTube Gaming channel during the week of August 21, losing only to Nintendo.

Team Cherry came in second, right behind Nintendo.

Nintendo’s 525k viewer peak during the same week comes thanks to its broadcast, where it revealed more information surrounding Kirby Air Riders, a Switch 2 exclusive coming on August 28, 2025.

Ever since the stream, the original Hollow Knight has skyrocketed in players, and other indie games have changed their release dates so they don’t overlap with the long-awaited sequel.

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