The launch of Black Myth Wukong missed the Xbox series we didn’t have a clear explanationuntil now.

When the first reports pointing to this delay appeared The Xbox Series S seemed to be the culprit, and that its limitations at the hardware level would force Game Science to spend more time improving and optimizing the game to run on said platform.

The truth is, it made sense because at the end of the day, the Xbox Series S It has only 10 GB of unified memoryjust over 8GB of that is free for games, and its GPU is far less powerful than the Xbox Series Myth Wukong.

We were able to find out today that the delay was caused a bug that was discovered during developmentand this is still not resolved. We might think that this completely rules out the Xbox Series S as the culprit of the delay, but as we’ll see, that’s actually not the case.

Black Myth Wukong didn’t arrive on Xbox due to a memory leak issue

Memory leak bugs are nothing new, they have been around for a long time in the technology sector and They are not limited to video games. Without going any further, the Android operating system is known to suffer from these types of problems on more than one occasion and the truth is that they can become a real headache.

A memory leak problem occurs when software, in this case a game, takes up memory indiscriminately and does not rid it of data and elements it no longer needs. This means that the memory consumption does not stabilize and continues to grow until it is completely saturated.

When this happens, it’s normal for application, game or operating system crash that we use, although these may also continue to operate with very poor performance until they eventually become practically unusable, eventually forcing us to perform a forced shutdown.

The source says that he got this information from talking to developers and people involved with Xbox during this year’s Gamescom, and that they also told him that the Xbox version of Black Myth Wukong is already available. failed verification tests twice for release on Microsoft consoles, which means that this error is difficult to solve.

Why don’t the PS5 and PC versions have this problem?

It’s a great question and the truth is this it is not easy to answerespecially given the similarities that exist between Xbox and PC development. However, I believe it may come from an issue of optimization and adjustments needed to “tailor” the game to the Xbox Series S, which could cause this error.

On the other hand, we can’t forget about the Xbox Series S and Series They have their own development kitand that these ultimately involve a different work and optimization cycle than PC games. Therefore, it is possible that they also have their own problems and their own mistakes.

The Xbox version of Black Myth Wukong doesn’t have an estimated release date yet, but a lot I’m afraid we’ll end up going to 2025.

👀🔥 BREAKING 🔴💥

At Gamescom, I spoke with Xbox folks and developers who informed me of a technical issue affecting the release of “Black Myth: Wukong” on Xbox consoles.

The game appears to be suffering from a bug known as… pic.twitter.com/sBXeuR1xGb

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