With the announcement by Skybound Games that their partnership with Team Cherry has ended, it looks like the physical release of Hollow Knight is cancelled for PlayStation 4, Xbox one , and Nintendo Switch.
The news about their partnership came out last August, where it was shared that they would be working together to produce a physical distribution for the critically acclaimed Metroidvania on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch. Those plans now seem to have been cancelled as well.
Skybound announce the termination of the partnership with Team Cherry on Twitter,
We are saddened to share that we’ll no longer be working with Team Cherry to bring Hollow Knight to new platforms. We absolutely love the game and wish Team Cherry continued success. We look forward to seeing what’s next for them.
Meanwhile, Team Cherry soon followed with their own statement on a blog post, explaining the situation,
We’re regretfully announcing the cancellation of physical copies of Hollow Knight and our partnership with Skybound Games.
As a team of 3 people still in intensive production of Hollow Knight, taking the game into the retail space (even with the extensive assistance of Skybound) proved more work than we could reasonably manage.
In future we will investigate other ways to deliver physical versions of Hollow Knight, though likely that will be in smaller quantities.
We’d like to thank Skybound for the amazing opportunity they provided, and for their professionalism and enthusiasm the whole way.
Hollow Knight will continue to be available digitally on the Nintendo eShop and Xbox Store. The game is available for $15 and it will be a shame to miss out on an epic action adventure, where you have to go through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes, explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic hand drawn 2D style.
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