{"id":736252,"date":"2026-08-13T03:34:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T03:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/736252\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T03:34:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T03:34:17","slug":"bethesda-hints-at-plans-to-improve-xbox-version-of-oblivion-remastered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/736252\/","title":{"rendered":"Bethesda Hints At Plans To Improve Xbox Version Of Oblivion Remastered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Bethesda Announces Plans To Improve Xbox Version Of Oblivion Remastered 1\" href=\"https:\/\/images.purexbox.com\/3a22b3bfa3dee\/bethesda-announces-plans-to-improve-xbox-version-of-oblivion-remastered-1.large.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/bethesda-announces-plans-to-improve-xbox-version-of-oblivion-remastered-1.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"Bethesda Announces Plans To Improve Xbox Version Of Oblivion Remastered 1\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An optimised version of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/games\/xbox-series-x\/elder_scrolls_iv_oblivion_remastered\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered<\/a> launched on Nintendo Switch 2 this week, and despite suffering performance issues for over a year now, Xbox users were disappointed by the lack of an Xbox Series X|S update.<\/p>\n<p>Just a few months back, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/news\/2026\/05\/the-results-aint-pretty-oblivion-remastered-analysis-claims-its-still-broken-after-one-year\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Digital Foundry<\/a> highlighted that the remaster was &#8220;still broken&#8221; due to a potential memory leak that caused the game to go from &#8220;annoying&#8221; to &#8220;practically unplayable&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The Switch 2 version seemingly hasn&#8217;t fared that much better, but as many have noticed since its release, and later confirmed by Bethesda, the new Nintendo version benefits from &#8220;a number of optimizations&#8221; the other platforms do not.<\/p>\n<p>Bethesda is aware of the call to patch the Xbox version, and posted this to their official <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BethesdaStudios\/status\/2087193201249522113\" rel=\"nofollow\">X\/Twitter<\/a> account:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve heard your feedback asking for an additional patch for Oblivion Remastered. The Nintendo Switch 2 version of the game has a number of optimizations that we are looking into bringing to other platforms and we will share more when we are able.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fingers crossed, this means the current optimisations will make their way to Xbox consoles soon, as well as future updates as and when Bethesda gets around to patching the Switch 2 version.<\/p>\n<p>Despite it&#8217;s prolonged patchy existence on Xbox, Oblivion Remastered is still considered an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/previews\/hands-on-oblivion-remastered-is-impressive-but-there-are-some-performance-issues-at-launch\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">impressive experience<\/a>, which makes its performance problems all the more disappointing.<\/p>\n<p>Are you happy about the news to patch Oblivion Remastered on Xbox? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text source\">[source <a class=\"external\" title=\"External Link: https:\/\/x.com\/BethesdaStudios\/status\/2087193201249522113\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BethesdaStudios\/status\/2087193201249522113\">x.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>\tRelated Games<\/p>\n<p class=\"avatar\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1782377951_579_avatar.jpg\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Craig Reid\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Craig is a Staff Writer and former Video Producer at Pure Xbox, where he covers the biggest games in the world of Xbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An optimised version of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered launched on Nintendo Switch 2 this week, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":736253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[206,59,86,813,56,54,55,1232,183,695,694],"class_list":["post-736252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-bethesda","tag-gb","tag-technology","tag-the-elder-scrolls","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-updates","tag-xbox","tag-xbox-series-s","tag-xbox-series-x"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/736253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}