These days a good majority of games are released in digital and physical formats. However for indie titles, going with a digital release is substantially easier as it means that they won’t need to deal with the production and distribution of a physical release, especially since some indie studios are too small to do so.
Now the folks at Team Cherry, the developers behind indie hit Hollow Knight, had initially intended to create a physical release of the game. However for the reasons we mentioned above, it looks like those plans have since been scrapped, according to an announcement on the developer’s website.
According to the blog post, “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.”
However they note that they do plan on revisiting such a possibility in the future, although if and when they do so, they might do it in smaller quantities which we imagine should prove to be easier to manage. That being said, we understand that some gamers do prefer collecting physical copies of games, perhaps for the artwork or the preference of owning a tangible product.
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