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Why Baldur’s Gate III is an accidental PS5 console exclusive (www.engadget.com)

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Larian is having trouble fitting Baldur’s Gate III on the Xbox Series S, the lower-priced and lower-powered console in Microsoft’s ninth-generation lineup.

I was looking up more information on why there’s such an issue getting BG3 on Xbox, and found this article with a lot more detail on the topic.

EDIT: The issue isn’t graphics or frame rate; it’s memory. The article goes into detail.

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[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

Wait, there's a split screen on Baldur's Gate III? Normally I'd expect split screen games are for games with shorter gameplay loop, e.g. FPS, racing.

It's kinda interesting that there's a split screen couch co-op for a long sprawling RPG. Also doesn't that make all the UIs and texts even more busy / cramped?

I just read that some people are trying out split screen. on steam deck, that's wild.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Split screen really is the only way if the party can split up

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, from what I understand Microsoft demanded 2 player co op splitscreen on one Xbox, which the ps5 can't do either. The whole splitting the party up would be impossible and I bet they'd have to enforce close close proximity between pc characters to only render one environment at a time if they somehow pull it off going forward, and even then multi-zone on on xbox? which I think is unlikely as my 3 year old top end gaming rig barely gets 60 fps 2k ultrawide.

Anyone have any idea why Microsoft was so adamant about this?

Or is all that just bs and the Xbox can't push it? All the peeps talking about the steam deck pushing it. Yes, but few are mentioning the settings @1280x720 @30 fps all settings on minimum.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I haven’t tried it with BG3 yet, but split screen on Divinity Original Sin 2 allowed the party to fully split up and go wherever they wanted.

I would assume it’s the same in BG3

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