Black Myth: Wukong Delayed on Xbox Due to Series S Issue, Developer Says

The top of Game Science, developer of Black Myth: Wukong, has advised that the acclaimed action-RPG has not but made its technique to current-gen Xbox consoles owing to optimisation points on the much less highly effective Xbox Sequence S. The replace from Recreation Science CEO runs opposite to earlier claims of the developer signing a console exclusivity take care of Sony. Black Fable: Wukong launched on PC and PS5 in August final yr, however a launch date for Xbox Series S/X is but to be introduced.

Recreation Science CEO Bemoans Xbox Sequence S Optimisation Points

Recreation Science co-founder and CEO Feng Ji lamented the unavailability of Black Fable: Wukong on the Xbox platform in a post on Chinese language social media platform Weibo Wednesday. He quoted a submit concerning the recreation successful three awards at 2024 Steam Awards, together with Recreation of the Yr, from the official Black Fable Weibo deal with and mentioned the one factor lacking was an Xbox model of the sport.

“Though there have been no massive surprises, I nonetheless felt a bit emotional after getting all of them,” Feng Ji mentioned on Black Fable: Wukong’s triumph on the 2024 Steam Awards. “… however the one factor lacking is the XBOX gown… appears a bit improper however that 10G of shared reminiscence, it is actually not possible to get it with out a number of years of optimisation expertise,” he added.

The Recreation Science chief appears to be pointing at Xbox Series S’s 10GB of reminiscence shared between the system and video games. This 10GB of RAM, in comparison with Sequence X’s 16GB, appears to have develop into a bottleneck for builders who intend to carry their video games to the Xbox platform.

Xbox Sequence S Limitations

Technical limitations of the Sequence S delayed the launch of Baldur’s Gate 3 on current-gen Xbox consoles, because the lower-end console struggled with the sport’s split-screen co-op function. Ultimately, the RPG arrived on Xbox consoles with out the split-screen co-op function on Sequence S, 4 months after it launched on PC and three months after its PS5 launch.

Microsoft, as coverage, enforces gameplay function parity between each of its current-generation consoles and the corporate intends for video games to launch on each Xbox Sequence X and Sequence S concurrently.

Conflicting Causes Behind Delay

Feng Ji’s feedback on the constraints of Sequence S, nevertheless, additional complicate the saga behind the delay to launch Black Fable: Wukong on Xbox. Whereas he factors to optimisation points as the rationale for the delay, a report in August 2024 claimed Recreation Science had signed an exclusivity take care of Sony to maintain the sport on PS5 for an unspecified length. Neither Sony nor the developer, nevertheless, have confirmed such an settlement.

The declare a couple of potential exclusivity deal, nevertheless, ran opposite to the official assertion from Recreation Science itself. Within the FAQ part of the sport’s web site, the Chinese language studio had mentioned it wanted extra time to optimise the title for Xbox Sequence S/X.

“PC and PS5 customers can benefit from the full recreation beginning August 20, 2024. We’re at the moment optimizing the Xbox Sequence X|S model to satisfy our high quality requirements, so it will not launch concurrently with the opposite platforms,” the developer had mentioned. “We apologize for the delay and goal to reduce the await Xbox customers. We’ll announce the discharge date as quickly because it meets our high quality requirements.”

The state of affairs, nevertheless, is additional sophisticated by Microsoft’s assertion from June 2024 that alluded to doable offers between builders and different platform holders like Sony.

“We’re excited for the launch of Black Fable Wukong on Xbox Sequence X|S and are working with Recreation Science to carry the sport to our platforms,” The Xbox mother or father had said on the time. “We will not touch upon the offers made by our companions with different platform holders, however we stay targeted on making Xbox the perfect platform for avid gamers, and nice video games are on the middle of that.”

Conflicting statements and a scarcity of readability and transparency from everybody concerned, with nonetheless no confirmed Xbox Sequence S/X launch date for Black Fable: Wukong, is more likely to depart Xbox gamers pissed off.

Black Fable: Wukong launched on PC and PS5 on August 20, 2024. On the 2024 Steam Awards, introduced December 31, the action-RPG received in three classes, together with Recreation of the Yr, Greatest Recreation You Suck At Award and Excellent Story-Wealthy Recreation Award.