It's been a real weird we꧅ek for Xbox, with confusion over the status of Black Myth: Wukong, third-parties noting the ongoing challenges for development on Series S, and frustration from indie devs over poor communication coming out all at once. These are all isolated problems, but the as the industry and fans alike conti🙈nue to struggle to understand Xbox's position in 2024, they're coming up at an inauspicious moment.

Xbox entered this console generation in 2020 with two new platforms: the Xbox Series X, comparable in power to Sony's competing PS5, and the less powerful Series S model. Series S can, in theory, do everything that the Series X can - just at lower resolutions and frame rates - and it sells at an attractive price point for players who don't demand the most high-end gaming experiences. But since even before the launch of the generation, fans and developers alike have feared that developing a game for Xbox - and thus having to support both Series S and X - could 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:hamstring the creation of new, h🍸igh-end games.

澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Dune: Awakening chief product officer Scott Junior rather gently indicated that's still the case in a recent interview with . "It's one of the reasons we're coming out on PC first," Junior said. "There's a lot of optimisa♕tions we need to do before we release on the 🍬Xbox. But yeah, Xbox Series S is a challenge."

That quote comes just after the other controversy around 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Black Myth: Wukong has been coming to a head. Developer Game Science said months before launch that it was "optimizing the Xbox Series X|S version to meet our quality standards, so it won't releaꦬse simultaneou𝕴sly with the other platforms." At the time, the delay of th𝕴e Xbox version of such a visually impressive game seemed like a sure signal that the Series S problem had struck once again.

The Black Myth: Wukong saga only got stranger last week, when reported via an anonymous source th♛at the game was delayed on Xbox due to an "exclusivity deal." corroborated that report with its own sources. Other insiders soon after definitively asserted that there's no exclusivity deal keeping Wukong off🍨 Xbox. IGN has stood by its original report, and Tassi has since that he was "specifically told it’s not a tech issue for Xbox causing delay."

It's all extremely confusing, which is par for the course on Xbox's relationship with its third-party developers at this point. The dev behind the Soulslike ▨Enotria has announced an indefinite delay t꧋o the game's Xbox version, claiming that Xbox has ignored its emails for months. "You can ask Xbox why they haven't answered us for two months," the studio said in a message to fans. "Obviously they don't care about Enotria and they don't ca♊re about you."

Taken in aggregate, what does all this mean? Maybe nothing! These could all be isolated cases of various Xbox policies coming to public light in poor circumstances. But if you took an optimistic view of the Series S when it was first announced, or hoped that 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Microsoft would keep the lights on at studios like Tango Gamework🥀s, or bought a modern Xbox to play exclusives likeꦓ Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, well… It's getting increasing🅺ly difficult to keep that optimism alive.

In another case of Series S woes, Baldur's Gate 3 launched on Xbox months late after Larian and Phil Spencer "found a solution."