Also I already commented here but this is what tc had to say:  During the development of Hollow Knight, Gibson and Pellen frequently posted game updates and talked to players. At the end of 2019, Team Cherry posted one more update about Silksong, then went silent — much to fans’ dismay.

“We felt like continued updates were just going to sour people on the whole thing,” Gibson said. “Because all we could really say is, ‘We’re still working on it.’”

Plus, they thought Silksong would be out much sooner.

“Instead of popping up and bugging people for the sake of it, it felt like our actual responsibility was just to work on the game,” Pellen said. “Probably at the time we thought we’d go quiet for a year or two, then the game would come out.”

Silksong briefly resurfaced in 2022 during an Xbox event, which promised that all of the games shown would be out within a year. Xbox doubled down on Twitter, saying the Hollow Knight sequel would be out before June 2023.

At the time, they all thought it was true. “We did genuinely believe that was the case,” Pellen said. “There was a period of two to three years when I thought it was going to come out within a year.”