Sounds like Microsoft are starting to take the gloves off, in order to stop all the silly season stuff where developers are blaming Xbox for the lack of a port.
Particularly if Sony really is doing some dark arts to try and impair Xboxâs reputation amongst developers and the Series S amongst gamers
Those who denied Paul/Jez:
So letâs assume MS is speaking the truth here, which Iâm gonna believeâŚ
I can understand the frustration of people that despite this MS keeps bringing games over to the party that plays some dirty games, keeps playing them.
I have no doubts that business it probably makes sense for them but fucking hell if itâs not frustrating as all hell.
Who the hell knows when we can even expect it. Uncertainty, dontcha love it?
Canât wait to see next weekâs twist. lol
I just donât get it though.
Why didnât Sony scream it off the rooftops? Why no PS5 copies sent to media at all? Usually they are super proud of these deals.
Usually we at least know when that timed exclusivity might end too, ffs.
Game Science basically lied when they said they are optimising Xbox versions?
It increases FUD around Xbox for one thing, and given this is the biggest Chinese game in years and China is a massive growth potential market, simply stopping an Xbox version ensures people donât buy the Series S for example to play it but have to stump up for a PS5 if they want to play it on console.
Also it might be more about prioritising the PS5 version than specifically to block Xbox, but I imagine the FUD particularly given their fanboys hatred of the S is a sweet bonus to Sony as itâll get amplified out of proportion
Regardless of whatâs true or not, I decided not to wait and see if/when Black Myth Wukong releases on Xbox Series X/S so I bought it last week for PlayStation 5 and will play it later this month after Astro Bot.
Based on those playing the game, itâs said to be really good, I know the intro looks awesome as I watched it and two friends at work (one who beat the game already) said itâs great and best of all for me, itâs NOT a souls game where when you die, you lose what you gained and have to reclaim it so thankfully, that aspect doesnât exist in Wukong which led to me pulling the trigger and buying the game as opposed to waiting.
Like all my games for the rest of 2024 thatâs on my list, im looking forward to playing Wukong. 
I hate it and I donât even know what to believe anymore. Officially Game Science never confirmed or denied the memory leak rumors, did they? So basically all we got from them is the text on their site about optimising for Xbox.
Assuming itâs still coming and that the text wonât be removed one of these days with a lame ass excuse.
Still think it could be the console versions werenât going to make the release date and Sony paid to make sure theres got out on time. If Game Science has 200 people, 100 on PC, 50 on PS5, and 50 on Xbox and Sony comes in and says âIâll give you money to make sure ours comes out alongside PCâ so they accept it, take the 50 from Xbox and put them on PS5 and now all of a sudden you have a psuedo-timed exclusive. PS5 version successfully makes release date, Xbox doesnât, and Xbox thinks a shady deal was made but exclusivity was never paid for directly.
Something like this basically aligns with what weâre seeing and the differences in what weâre hearing IMO.
Hmmm, yeah. Could be!
And in that case they probably are working on optimising it for Xbox, but it wouldnât surprise me if thatâs just a smaller part of the team while the rest prioritises fixing stuff for PC and PS5. Hopefully thatâs it, because then a release relatively âsoonâ is not out of the question.
If the rumor about the memory leak is true, then the Xbox version is close to being done. Thatâs what it said too. But maybe that was nonsense.
Hi, if a moderator could explain to me why my post was deleted after what seems to be a flag by one or more users, thank you.
My post, devoid of personal comment, consisted of a tweet from Hunter, followed by an intervention from Paul Tassi who had dealt with the information first and who reacted to this update. I put a screenshot of my deleted post in a spoiler blur.
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and you ask why your post was removed?
The game runs poorly, even on a PS5 Pro so if they need to use Xbox as a punching bag like the Enotria devs whatever they can keep the game tbh, itâs not worth all this drama.
yes, asking honestly and politely for something when you were not raised in the inner circle of a community to the point of knowing all the frictions, the popular voices and those that are not is natural, Jesse kindly informed me about the authorâs disgrace, that said the information is not false and I only passed it on, because nothing in the tone or content of his tweet was worth ringing alarm bells.
Never weighted in on this(thread maybe, I donât remember if I said anything before) but, this is likely the same situation that DF implied Microsoft did with Cyberpunk 2077. Where they implied the 1X version was in a good place because Microsoft paided to have it prioritized in development.
Which implies that there was no deal, but because Microsoft paid to make sure the game had a 1X version, CD Projekt Red prioritized the 1X version on consoles.
Which they later rescinded because it was a baseless claim they never applied to similar games for Sony, nor did they have any proof to back that up. Difference is, there are literal court documents where Sony does require technical superiority for games with marketing, and weâve also see contracts/devsâ testimony which Sony have required an Xbox version be killed. Iâm not saying this situation fits that bill, but I wanted to make it clear that not only did DF step in shit on that one, it really rubbed people wrong because we had already seen docs from the Apple v. Epic case that substantiated that claim⌠against Sony, but never Microsoft (and Iâm a fan of not making baseless assumptions just because one party does something).
This.
The devs obviously didnât set any of the current consoles as the primary target. Itâs crazy seeing console gamers using this game to take shots at each other.