
Hmmm, we're starting to see a pattern here. In case you somehow missed all the kerfuffle last week, Sony was accused of buying out Black Myth: Wukong as a PS5 console exclusive — and that's why it was indefinitely delayed on Xbox, even though developer Game Science had said that the delay was down to technical issues. Those accusations have largely been walked back over the last few days, it should be noted.
Anyway, that was Black Myth: Wukong, and this is another action RPG called Enotria: The Last Song. It's set to release in just over a couple of weeks for PS5 and PC, on the 19th September — but what about the Xbox Series X|S version? Well, just like Wukong, it's been hit with "an indefinite delay", as per developer Jyamma Games.
"Unfortunately, despite our best efforts and the hard work of our dedicated team, we’ve encountered challenges that have delayed our release on the Xbox platform," the studio adds in an official statement.
So, we're left wondering: Is Sony moneyhatting Enotria as well? Did it throw money at Larian Studios when Baldur's Gate 3 was initially delayed on Xbox? That's apparently what happened with Wukong, so it only makes sense. Or maybe, just maybe, developers are having trouble with Microsoft's machines. You know, like they keep telling us.
It gets even weirder in Enotria's case, however. Jyamma Games has given additional details on social media. The team writes: "We believe that Xbox is blessed with a huge gaming community and we would love to release Enotria on your platform as fast as possible, as we spent a lot of money and resources to make it happen, but this task is nearly impossible with Microsoft taking months to reply to us when we have the game ready for submission." Bizarre.
Now look, we're getting a bit snarky here, but we have found this whole narrative perplexing. This isn't the first time that an upcoming title has suddenly had to hit the brakes on an Xbox Series version — and somehow, we doubt that it'll be the last.
But we guarantee that someone, somewhere, will be joining the dots right now, and that their conclusion will boil down to Sony snapping up console exclusives behind Microsoft's back. Or, even better, paying to have the Xbox versions canned, while the developers spread misinformation. Yes, that's an actual theory that we've been subjected to at least twice over the last week or so.
Enotria looks promising, by the way. We're just hoping that it doesn't get caught in bizarre conspiracy theories in its lead up to launch!
[source enotriathelastsong.com]
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Is this one even honestly as big a deal as Wukong or Baldur’s Gate were or are we just going to be speculating on every game that gets delayed on Xbox from now on?
Its a wild west world of misinformation out there. Wild views and gosip get amplified out of all proportion and the truth ends up being whatever you want to believe..
They're not making a game for Xbox ,but for Microsoft Gaming!
Oh man, Astro Bot not on Xbox? I bet it's a conspiracy! I just know it! yells at clouds
Jokes aside, there must be something with the Series S that's causing problems for devs that's leading to these delays.
Gz on the console flaming article!
How dare Sony pay so many money-hats, that not only is the game made exclusive… but also that the devs are bought and paid for to attack the poor innocent Xbox too. Thankfully we have absolute objectivity from twitter/x commentators with absolutely no history of a Microsoft bias to enlighten with with truth bombs!
encountered challenges
Means they encountered the Series S.
I think xbox itself want to get out to console race and become 3rd party publishers instead, and others publishers/developers realize that. Besides, the xbox audience already trained not to buy games because of gamepass, only big name games (like cod) that will sell on it.
@UltimateOtaku91
100%. Series S was a huge mistake I hope they learn from next gen (if xbox are still in the console game). It's really held back this generation.
This article is pointless and gives room to conspiracies which aren't even there.
@kungfumongoose Yeah, people complain about games still releasing on PS4, but if developers have to scale back games so they can run on the Series S or Nintendo Switch then of course they are going to make a PS4 version too.
It's that pesky Series S complicating things again 🤣🙈
Well I think some of it has to be business related money wise.
Things seem extra tight in the gaming world of development. Then the extra time spent messing about with the series s.
And you have to consider your return on investment on a console that maybe doesn’t have a high enough user base and one that has game pass, so the users buy less games.
Even a games like fifa etc have a lot lower sales uptake on the series consoles and then the smaller user base as well.
@SammyAJackSs0 HAAK
@BloodyBlact Welcome to Push Square
Non news kinda clickbait 😂 n it's not weird it may be the smallest community but it's still wt 30 million so is still big. The bit what stands out though for me as i'm on Xbox n in general can't complain about most stuff but like these have said and IV seen at least 2 others about developers (edit in like last weekish) saying same thing that they wanna bring their games to Xbox but Microsoft aren't getting back to them or helping with problems getting there games passed on stuff which is kinda worrying tbh 😢
You don't have to be a d!ck.
@colonelkilgore
And to think that Sony would have gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for those meddling kids (Passi and IGN).
This is the third title in about a year to have this issue, and even Xbox's first party games keep launching at 30 fps specifically on console. Maybe it's just me, but when devs keep talking about issues with Xbox development, I choose to believe them.
https://www.gematsu.com/2024/03/enotria-the-last-song-launches-august-21-xbox-series-version-no-longer-planned
They'd already cancelled the Xbox version so WTF are they on about?
Edit: found the article where they reinstated it - does suggest it was lowest priority though which might explain why the certification is maybe more last minute than for PS?
https://www.gematsu.com/2024/05/enotria-the-last-song-delayed-to-september-19-restores-xbox-series-version-ps5-and-pc-demo-launches-may-22
Series S strikes again lol
@Widey85 interesting, this article was months ago! So this is genuinely a non story aside from getting more details as to why it's delayed/canceled.
All that aside, I'm looking forward to this one and think it looks far more promising than outlaws, ac, and even wukong in it's current state and shortcomings. Glad I passed on them at fp.
This will likely be my next game launch window buy.
@KundaliniRising333 we know in the other cases from the studios own mouths too, to be fair, and that is kind of the point 😅
@ShogunRok is just having a dig at the other articles and the people who react to the rumoured nonsense, when it is clearly a trend that there are issues with getting games onto the Xbox ecosystem in the first place for varying reasons. Some of which are people now trying to make current gen games not series s/ps4 pro games 😅
Also, let's applaud the free marketing that the game will now generate in the coming week when certain people latch on to this 👏😁
To quote a famous line from an old TV series (B5) : "Understanding is a three-edged sword: your side, their side, and the truth."
"In war, truth is the first casualty" - says another famous line.
Both apply here, so we're left only with what misinformation either side wants us to see / hear.
Well, I say, don't play,
just turn around and go your own way!
There are so many good titles to experience nowadays with which to occupy your time, that temporary exclusivity becomes less and less important.
All that precious free time wasted on guessing around in the convoluted drama of those 2, could be better used playing an epic title!
Cheers!
It's obvious Microsoft is just a pain to work with
Notice how both new Capcom Fighting Collections (The Marvel one, and SNK one) are skipping Xbox as well yet will be on PS4/Switch/PC.
This keeps happening and I think it's on Microsoft
Why is this an article here other than to fan the flames of console warring? Has nothing to do with PlayStation. Kind of tired of this crap.
Push Square should be above this nonsense.
@Enuo try third in last week 😭 maybe just abit longer lol but it's not good😢
Slightly irrelevant comment, but, I wouldn't be surprised if many Devs chose to skip Xbox due to it's low sales and sinking ship now.
GET YOUR SONY PITCHFORKS OUT!!!!
(sorry for the caps)
@kungfumongoose As I have said many times I honestly still can't tell if the SS was a mistake or not. It has clearly caused them issues, but on the other hand its sold the lions share of the series console. As much as I personally think its caused them issues I do wonder how bad the sales could have been had they only done the SX.
Yawn....YAWN...When is all this rumour mongering going to stop. Could pushsquare get back to reporting on games instead of trying to whip up another frenzy of controversy over nothing but speculation and conspiracy heresay?
@Oram77 NO NEED TO APOLOGISE..
You guys got to it faster than Pure Xbox.
Don’t know why this article needs to exist but it is what it is. This is an Xbox thing. NOT A PS THING.
This is on MS tbh. Bad communication and such. Just bring Forza over to PS5 and next gen Nintendo console and we will be happy.
The key line for me there is
"this task is nearly impossible with Microsoft taking months to reply to us when we have the game ready for submission."
Why would MS take months to reply???
MONTHS!!!!!
If that's true then Xbox doesn't deserve third party Devs support, if MS won't support the third party Devs in the first place!
@Lup Maybe because Pure Xbox knows there’s nothing worth reporting with this? I haven’t seen any conspiracy theories about this game anywhere but here.
@Widey85 It was never cancelled in that article.
“Regarding the release on Xbox, we have decided, in the interest of ensuring a superior experience for PC and PlayStation 5 players, to 'reassess' the possibility of an Xbox release post-launch.”
Series S is a good thing, as it keeps game developers ridiculous ambitions for this gen of consoles in check - PS5 and series X (not to mention a huge number of less powerful PC's) are Nowhere near powerful enough to do what some devs want - unless what you want to see is Pixel porridge as a slideshow!
Will PS5 hold back this gen once PRO is released?
Everyone knows the best way to ignore a load of nonsense on Twitter is to keep reporting on it to let people know you think its nonsense.
@awp69 welcome to the new pushsquare where rumour mongering and reporting on untruths and unproven speculation are the next new thing.
@awp69 if anything Pure Xbox should be the one to report this, NOT PUSH SQUARE.
@Nepp67 Yes but the quote you've just pointed out says after release on PS5 and PC, they'll look at an Xbox release.
And that's from March - so they've known they weren't planning on working on the Xbox release till after the other two were out, as they wanted to concentrate on PS5 and PC first
I work in games, and can confirm Xbox is very slow getting back, and it’s hard to pass review.
We had a big update that was supposed to be out two months ago, but still waiting on Xbox approval..
Given some of these games aren't even yet perfectly optimised to run on PS5, without later patches etc. and everyone knows PC is "supreme"... so how are they expected to be able to port to the series S? Isn't Microsoft's own undoing for having a sub and standard console that they've tried to balance as equally important? May as well claim Sony has paid to not port games to Switch.
and now this game
Paul Tassi is right. These are the proof that Sony are the bad guy /s
They keep moneyhatting developers despite PS4/5 units numbers are beyond above Xbox 1/Series SEX /s
Sony, stop bullying MS please!!! 😔
WTF is the point of this article? More flame wars? Sony good, MS bad? Enough is enough already. Enjoy games and stop with my box is better than yours.
@Jayofmaya Sinking ship that will take over Sony with the most revenue and profit? Okay then.
So when is push and pure merging, again? It's taking forever.
Heck just forget it and go with PushPureWASD
Sony money! Stealing games from Xbox! Exclusivity!
-Jez and Paul Tassi in a day or two
I jest but it isn't a good look for Xbox especially having your submission process called out. I guess the devs are hoping that by doing this, Xbox takes them seriously.
"Or maybe, just maybe, developers are having trouble with Microsoft's machines. You know, like they keep telling us."
Nah, that's too convenient. Instead, I must believe the Forbes journalist bellend who gets his "info" out of Reddit posts.
Anyhow, I forget which game it was, but a small developer recently had a similar complaint about Microsoft being impossible to communicate with to push their game through, and thus ended up cancelling their XBox release.
Series X can run games as well as PS5 but the Series S simply isn’t up to the task. I was absolutely flamed when I made a comment on an Xbox forum that the Series S was holding back the Xbox brand by making it extremely difficulty to have games running on it. I said this when Baldurs Gate 3 was not released on time because the developer themselves said that it was having difficulty in reaching parity between S and X. Sony didn’t buy exclusivity on Black Myth Wukong and they haven’t bought Enotria. It’s just Microsoft made it difficult for everyone..
I've said several times that that S in series S stands for s#!t
@Oram77
Only PlayStation pitchforks have the left tine in the correct spot ^_^
Think it’s because of MS’s stupid insistence that all games have parity with the S.
Wow! It is rare for a developer to be so blunt and upfront and push the blame directly on to a company like Microsoft like this. There's two sides to every story but kudos on them being so direct.
As others say... It is about Series S. That machine is weaker than Switch.
I'm eager to see how GTA VI will play on the Series S, and whether or not it will be delayed on Xbox because of that. Honestly I'm even worried for the base PS5.
@anoyonmus here you go… just a bit slow out of the gates is all 😉: https://www.purexbox.com/news/2024/09/enotria-the-last-song-dev-blasts-microsoft-over-indefinite-xbox-delay
Has there been any credible sources claimed this is the case?
Don't think there was any such credible claim surrounding the delay of Baldurs Gate on Xbox either?
This article comes across as pure ***** stirring.
Pretty sure it’s to do with the Series S at least that’s the reason why BG3 and Black Myth were timed exclusive for PS5 when they came out.
Yet they seem to blame Sony doing exclusive deals it’s not Sony’s fault or the company behind the games fault either it’s the Series S being a much quicker console console compared to Series X
shouldnt this be on the xbox site? whats this got to do with playstation?
@anoyonmus just said the same thing this site loved the xbox articles when its something negative
@MidnightDragonDX its not, the game is ready to series s they are just waiting for it to pass the xbox certification process which is holding it up
It doesn't have anything to do with the Series S:
"Speaking to Insider Gaming, Jyamma Games CEO Giacomo Greco explained that the Xbox Series version was delayed due to the developer’s inability to open the game’s Microsoft Store page. The studio has gone back and forth with various Xbox support staff for months, but is still unable to open its store page to submit the game for release. As for any speculation regarding Xbox Series S, Greco said Enotria: The Last Song runs fine on the hardware, with some minor graphical tweaks."
We are simply witnessing the later stages of a death spiral that has been going on for years now.
@cburg Sure, if they outright buy Sony, but they won't be able to do that. Their last console was the lesser owned and it's arguably that their current one outright failed, they should have tried harder with Games for Windows instead of pushing the console market TBH.
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