One of the stupidest stories of 2024 has been cleared up just a couple of days into the New Year, signalling there may finally be better days ahead of us.
Sony was, bizarrely, accused of moneyhatting Chinese gigahit Black Myth: Wukong for its console, after its Xbox release mysteriously vanished before launch. Game Science, the developer, said it was having issues getting the game to run on Microsoft’s machine, but that didn’t stop a spate of stories from accusing PlayStation of purchasing timed exclusivity.
The problem is, the Japanese giant barely marketed the title, and certainly didn’t treat it like other timed exclusives in its portfolio.
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. “Which somehow feels a bit wrong, but that 10GB of shared memory – without years of optimisation experience – is really hard to make work.”