'The Results Ain't Pretty' - Oblivion Remastered Analysis Claims It's 'Still Broken' After One Year
Digital Foundry has published a new analysis claiming that The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered remains technically flawed over a year after its April 2025 release, citing persistent issues like performance hitches, crashes, and frame rate drops. Despite positive user reviews on the Xbox Store, the game has not received a major update since July 2025, leaving many problems unresolved across all platforms. The outlet observed ongoing performance degradation on the PS5, potentially due to a memory leak, and concluded that the game is still in a subpar state.
- ▪Oblivion Remastered was released in April 2025 without prior announcement by Xbox and Bethesda.
- ▪Digital Foundry reported ongoing technical issues including hitching, crashes, and sub-60fps performance drops.
- ▪The last major update, version 1.2, was released in July 2025, just three months after launch.
- ▪Performance degradation over time, likely due to a memory leak, has been confirmed on the PS5 version.
- ▪An update may be expected ahead of the game's planned release on Nintendo Switch 2.
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NewsXboxOblivion RemasteredDigital FoundryAnalysis 'The Results Ain't Pretty' - Oblivion Remastered Analysis Claims It's 'Still Broken' After One Year Have you had any issues with it? by Fraser Gilbert32 mins ago Share: It's been just over a year now since Xbox and Bethesda shadow dropped The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered on us in April of 2025, and even though it's proved popular and the reviews on the Xbox Store are pretty impressive overall, the folks over at Digital Foundry have been highlighting multiple ways in which it's "still broken".
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