The point is that no indie dev was able to plan around the surprise release of Silksong, precisely because it was a surprise.

Ah, so then just an agreement with "Matters way less than people think" in the end?

	▲	xmodem 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		No. A lot of devs delayed their launches: https://www.gamespot.com/articles/silksong-release-date-has-... Those that didn't or couldn't think it hurt them pretty badly: https://www.dexerto.com/gaming/hell-is-us-boss-slams-silkson... In general I think you are probably right. But there are definitely exceptions and this is one of them.