One of the most hyped video games in years finally came out on Thursday morning, and the most popular digital storefronts couldn't handle it at all.

I'm talking, of course, about Hollow Knight: Silksong .

The highly anticipated sequel to 2017's Hollow Knight officially launched at 10 a.m. ET on Thursday, following several years of radio silence and an exciting re-emergence just a couple of weeks ago. Multiple other indie games had to move their release dates so they wouldn't compete directly with Silksong . It's a big deal.

Unfortunately, as my social feed shows, gamers are having a real hard time actually buying it.

Many of my friends on Bluesky posted screenshots of the Nintendo Switch 2 eShop crashing when trying to purchase Silksong . Steam and the PlayStation Store hav

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