Black Myth: Wukong PS5 Physical Copies Available in December

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by Khayl Adam Mon, 2am

Those of you holding out for Black Myth: Wukong's anticipated PS5 physical edition will soon feel relief, as boxed copies will hit shelves next month on 12th December. PM Studios is handling the logistical end of things and confirmed that the date will be the same for UK fans (thanks, Eurogamer).

This release will mark the game's first printing in physical form, including the Deluxe Edition upgrades' digital goodies; the collector's edition available at launch contained a measly digital download code. Black Myth sold an astonishing 20 million units (primarily on PC) in its first month on the market, earning the plucky newcomer a spot on the GOAT list alongside Minecraft and GTA 5.

Will you pick up a boxed PS5 copy of Black Myth: Wukong? How many units do you think this second release will account for? Let us know in the comments section below.

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Khayl Adam is Push Square's roving Australian correspondent, a reporter tasked with scouring the internet for the richest, most succulent PlayStation stories. With five years of experience as a freelance journalist and mercenary wordsmith, RPGs are his first great love, but strategy and tactics games are a close second, genres in which he is only too happy to specialize.

1
Loamy
Mon, 2:07am

I will happily buy a copy when they do a proper pro patch and performance is sitting comfortably in the VRR window 😌

Looking forward to getting my arse handed to me!

2
Flaming_Kaiser
Mon, 3:12am

Hope the patches will be on the disc and not a vanilla release.

3
DennisReynolds
Mon, 3:14am

Cool but how about a Pro patch because this game seriously needs one.

4
Northern_munkey
Mon, 4:12am

Hopefully this game looks even better on the pro. It looks awesome anyway and I was never bothered by the supposedly rubbish performance. Awesome game.

5
BuGGy2DaB
Mon, 5:37am

Excited to see what monkee can run on the pro. Got me pre-order down.

6
tameshiyaku
Mon, 7:03am

@Northern_munkey haha, "supposedly rubbish performance" gets it right. I'm always baffled what is described as unplayable.

Hoping however to have the patches on disc. Holding off digital only releases always pays off. Next is Alan Wake 2.

7
Nekomichu
Mon, 8:19am

just finishing the game, I am at the last chapter
Great game.

8
Leeg
Mon, 10:25am

@Loamy same. And they are taking their sweet time about it.

9
Futureshark
Mon, 10:37am

Finally beat last boss last night, now to enter Ng+ to get platinum!

Excellent game, might well be beating out Stellar Blade as my personal GOTY (sorry Eve).

Performance issues on base PS5, I saw very little of it, a couple of areas were slightly slow when looking but I always found the combat fine.
(Purple Cloud) Mountains out of molehills.

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playstation1995
Mon, 12:44pm

N.i.c.e. i will be getting the physical disc version of black myth wukong.word up son

11
ChimpMasta
Mon, 12:48pm

I didn’t know it was digital only.

Given the sales success of this game, doesn’t that bring into question the idea that Alan Wake 2 had slower than hoped sales due to it being digital only?

Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s great. But those holding it up as a poster child for why physical sales are still very important, may need to revise their theory?

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Loamy
Mon, 2:19pm

@Leeg they sure are 😂 it's not like Game Science don't have the staff, time or money to get on with it!

@Northern_munkey Yeah, I can handle performance dips in a game (within reason). It's more things like stutters, frame pacing and screen tearing that does me in. Dragon's Dogma 2 was fine for me at launch so it's pretty game-dependant. But it's always nice to have solid performance so I might as well wait

13
AndyKazama
Mon, 4:24pm

I wish game collection didn’t take money on pre order cuz would have used them.

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GilgaMax309
Mon, 4:31pm

@DennisReynolds Agreed. Game's amazing, sure. But it needs some polishing up lol

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Northern_munkey
Mon, 5:32pm

@Loamy agreed. The majority of the time people harp on about game breaking performance issues I often wonder if I'm playing the same game. I've never had issues with wukong and I honestly didn't find dragons dogma 2 that bad either. Lies of p and lords of the fallen both were well within what I'd personally class as acceptable but I guess it's just wrong to actually enjoy something and ignore the little niggles..