The head of Game Science, the studio behind the critically acclaimed action RPG Black Myth: Wukong, has hinted that the game's absence from current-generation Xbox consoles is due to optimisation challenges with the less powerful Xbox Series S.

Now, in a post on Weibo, game director Feng Ji has confirmed there is no PlayStation exclusivity in place. “The only thing missing is the Xbox,” he wrote in an otherwise celebratory post, as translated by Google.

In a post on Chinese social media website Weibo, Game Science co-founder and CEO Feng Ji celebrated PC and PlayStation 5 action game Black Myth: Wukong’s Game of the Year win at the 2024 Steam awards, and in doing so lamented the lack of an Xbox version of the game, which he blamed on optimization trouble with the Xbox Series S.

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We're kicking off 2025 with some fresh Xbox controversy. One of last year's biggest hits and most-awarded action games Black Myth: Wukong is still exclusively not on Xbox, and increasingly it seems to be for incidental reasons,

Black Myth Wukong’s Xbox release is still in development, but when the port might launch is anyone’s guess, thanks, perhaps, to issues getting the action-RPG to run on Xbox Series S. That’s what Game Science CEO Feng Ji said on Weibo,