Black Myth: Wukong

You would not... hear that kind of language from ign in the united states and i feel like if ign spoke this way they would be significantly more beloved and liked and even respected in the space um really crazy call out but in my opinion totally right and a lot of people were very angry at this clip they were like oh well at least we have free speech in the united states like look i guess But the games that they're making over there are excellent, incredible, and massively commercially viable.

Like Black Myth Wukong was a smash hit.

And I imagine that Phantom Blade Zero is going to do very well.

It looks cool.

No, no, no, no, no, no.

But they did it with the Wukong.

They bought Wukong in spades over there.

Yeah.

And they're gonna do that with this game.

Elliott said pre-launch sales had generated $43 million in revenue and had cracked the top 40 games of 2026 by revenue before it's even out, despite only being available on PC and PS5.

He did, however, add that Phantom Blade Zero is unlikely to hit the sales heights of 2024's mega hit Black Myth: Wukong, but still said, quote, "It'll sell a lot of copies this year in a crowded market." For context, Game Science's Black Myth: Wukong sold 10 million copies in the first three days alone, and has reportedly sold over 20 million copies to date.

Unsurprisingly, a follow-up is in development.

Phantom Blade Zero is out tomorrow.

This is from S Game Studio.

This is one of those Chinese games similar to Black Myth Wukong and Wuchang.

Some of those games that have been super impressive when they come out and are really frantic Wuxia-style action.

So the reviews have been coming out at the time of this recording, and they've been super, super high.

Finally, the big one to cap off the next seven days is Phantom Blade Zero, the very impressive looking martial arts action game developed by Chinese developer S-Game.

Getting the feeling like this is China's next major global AAA moment after Black Myth Wukong, and Phantom Blade Zero has also roped in the creative involvement and performance of legendary martial artist and actor Donnie Yen, aka Kane, in the John Wick series.

The big focus is on wuxia inspired combat as you'd expect, they're boasting 30 different primary weapons for this one.

In addition to cool looking sub weapons which you obtain by defeating bosses, the developer has been pretty active on social media hyping this up in the lead up to launch.

See, this is so much more useful.

And they were showing Black Myth Wukong across the board at 40 FPS.

I'm like, who's that useful for? Who's playing Black Myth Wukong at 40 FPS? Who's looking at buying a 9800X 3D and a mid-range to high-end GPU and playing at 40 FPS? And I know we've talked about this a thousand times, and it's just what you were just talking about, but it limits the useful information from that video.

You could say, well, include it in conjunction with lower resolution testing.

So we can at least see what happens, you know, when you limit performance to 40 FPS.

It's like, if you were going to play at 4k, all you have to do is reference the GPU testing for that game and figure out is the GPU number for the GPU have lower than the CPU number in the CPU testing at 1080p.

That's literally all you have to do.

If you want to play Black Myth Wukong at 4K on an RTX 5070, go to the Black Myth Wukong GPU benchmark and then also open up a just CPU benchmark for that game done at 1080p.