Black Fantasy: Wukong launched earlier this week and has since climbed to the highest of Steam charts, changing into one of the crucial performed video games of all time on the platform. The action-RPG from Chinese language developer Recreation Science is obtainable on PC and PlayStation, however hasn’t but launched on Xbox. Whereas Microsoft has not clarified the explanation for the delay, Black Fantasy: Wukong’s launch on Xbox Sequence S/X has reportedly been pushed again over a “tech concern.”
Black Fantasy: Wukong on Xbox Sequence S/X
In response to a report by Forbes, The Xbox launch of Black Fantasy: Wukong hasn’t been delayed due to an exclusivity deal between Sony and Recreation Science. The sport has reportedly not arrived on Microsoft’s console concurrently with different platforms due to a “tech concern.”
The report does not make clear the technical concern with an Xbox model of the sport, however one can gauge it may need one thing to do with optimising the sport for each the higher-end Xbox Sequence X and the much less highly effective Xbox Sequence S.
Earlier this 12 months, Recreation Science had clarified the explanation for the sport’s delay on Xbox Sequence S/X within the FAQ part of the sport’s web site. “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 attenuate the await Xbox customers. We are going to announce the discharge date as quickly because it meets our high quality requirements.”
Black Fantasy: Wukong is inbuilt Epic Video games’ Unreal Engine 5 and is a graphically demanding title that might probably face points with working easily on Xbox Sequence S. The underpowered console has beforehand acted as a hurdle for video games launching on Xbox. Baldur’s Gate 3 was launched on Xbox Sequence S/X months after launching on PC and PS5 as a result of developer Larian Studios struggled to make the sport’s split-screen co-op characteristic work optimally on Sequence S. The sport ultimately launched on the platform with out the split-screen mode.
Microsoft, as coverage, enforces gameplay characteristic 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.
Black Fantasy: Wukong arrived on PC (by way of Steam and Epic Video games Retailer) and PS5 on August 20. Since launch, it has gone on to grow to be the second most-played recreation on Steam, behind solely PUBG: Battlegrounds, with its all-time peak concurrent participant rely hitting over 2 million customers on Valve’s platform.
