There is quite a bit of anticipation and excitement for September. We have two significant releases happening on the same day, and it will hopefully provide a thrilling RPG experience for both Xbox and PlayStation fans. As you might already know, September 6, 2023, is bringing out both Starfield on Xbox Series X/S and PC, while Sony PlayStation 5 fans are getting a copy of Baldur’s Gate 3. However, there was some concern online recently that Baldur’s Gate 3 might be in a bit of trouble.
Baldur’s Gate 3 may not come to Xbox until 2024
01.08.2023 - 20:13 / polygon.com / Swen Vincke / Michael Douse
After years of development and early access availability, Larian Studios’ Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game Baldur’s Gate 3 will be officially released on Mac and Windows PC on Aug. 3. A PlayStation 5 version is coming on Sept. 6. But the planned release for Xbox platforms is further off; Larian says that version of Baldur’s Gate 3 may not arrive until 2024, according to comments from Michael Douse, director of publishing at the studio.
Douse echoed Larian creative director Swen Vincke in explaining that it’s not “playing the exclusivity game” with Xbox fans, but that technical limitations are preventing an Xbox Series X (and Series S) release of Baldur’s Gate 3.
“We’ve said many times in the past that the issue is getting split-screen working on the Series S, which is taking more time, but is in progress,” Douse said on Twitter. “This is a huge technical hurdle, but we are unable to release the game on the ecosystem without this feature.”
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Added Douse, “We cannot remove the split-screen feature because we are obliged to launch with feature parity, and so continue to try and make it work. We have quite a few engineers working very hard to do what no other RPG of this scale has achieved: seamless drop-in, drop-out co-op on Series S. We hope to have an update by the end of the year.”
Larian is being cautious about officially committing to an Xbox Series X and S version of the game, as noted back in February. At the time, the studio said, “We are still working on an Xbox version of BG3, but we’re not yet confident enough to announce it. We don’t like announcing anything until we’re ready, because we don’t want to get peoples hopes up until we’re sure we can deliver.”
The Series S, Microsoft’s lower-power, lower-cost version of the current-generation Xbox has been at the center of a debate over the last year regarding whether the console is “holding back gaming” or, at the very least, resulting in compromises for Xbox Series X games. The game hardware tech experts at Digital Foundry argue against that theory, but it appears to be accurate at least in the case of Baldur’s Gate 3. No doubt Microsoft and Larian are trying to pull off some engineering wizardry to make the highly anticipated RPG playable on a Series S (and X).
For now, Xbox devotees will have to wait, likely until the new year. Beamdog’s Baldur’s Gate and Baldur’s Gate 2: Enhanced Editions might help pass the time — you might even have the time to finish one of those games before Baldur’s Gate 3 comes to the Xbox.
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