So, what's the situation? According to a translated New Year's post from the Game Science CEO Yocar-Feng Ji on Weibo, the Xbox version suffered optimisation issues due to the "10GB of shared memory" that's used by the Series S. Because of that, he says it's really hard to get the game running without multiple years of optimisation experience.
Here's a machine-translated version of the social media message courtesy of IGN:
Yocar-Feng Ji on Weibo: “The only thing missing is the Xbox, which somehow feels a bit wrong, but that 10GB of shared memory — without years of optimisation experience — is really hard to make work.”
The CEO didn't directly reference the timed PlayStation exclusive rumours that were doing the rounds last year, so we don't ultimately know whether a deal was created as a result of these optimisation issues. According to some reports, Xbox has been of the belief that a timed deal is in place, and bizarrely, a statement from Microsoft mentioned back in September that the delay "is not due to Xbox platform limitations that have been raised to us".
Microsoft representative in September 2024: "As we have said before, we’re excited for the launch of Black Myth: Wukong on Xbox Series X|S and are working with Game Science to bring the game to our platforms. We'd prefer not to comment on the deals made by our partners with other platform holders but we can confirm that the delay is not due to Xbox platform limitations that have been raised to us."
Confused? Yeah, we are too. Whatever the case may be, we're just hoping we'll get Black Myth: Wukong on Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S as soon as possible, as the game was actually rated for those platforms just a few months ago.
That should hopefully mean we're not too far away, but if problems persist with Xbox Series S, it might mean that Microsoft needs to work out a Baldur's Gate 3-type scenario - some kind of exception that can get it over the finish line!
