To miss out on it because of a policy own-goal would be embarrassing, not to mention frustrating for Series X owners. Baldur’s Gate 3 was wowing critics, making huge waves on Steam, and quickly establishing itself as one of the biggest and best games of the year. If Larian could not get co-op working on Series S, it wouldn’t be able to release the game on Xbox at all. It also strongly prefers feature parity with the PlayStation versions of multiplatform releases, and Baldur’s Gate 3 has split-screen co-op on PS5. As Larian explained, Microsoft requires gameplay feature parity between Xbox Series X and Series S versions of games. Initially, it would not commit to releasing the game on Xbox before 2024, if at all, because it could not get the split-screen co-op mode working sufficiently well on Xbox Series S - the lower-cost, lower-power Xbox console of this generation. And it could have been much longer.īaldur’s Gate 3’s developer, Larian Studios, has no timed exclusive arrangement in place with Sony or anyone else. Baldur’s Gate 3 - which has already become an overnight sensation on PC, if you can say that about a game that spent three years in early access - is out now on PlayStation 5, but an Xbox version is still weeks or months away.
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