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Xbox boss Phil Spencer has addressed the fact Baldur's Gate 3 launches on PS5 before Xbox Series X and S in an interview at gamescom 2023.

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[–] Hypx@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago (15 children)

The Series S will become an ever bigger anchor going forward. Eventually, there will be 3rd party games that just choose not to bother with the Xbox at all because of the Series S.

[–] stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (14 children)

We’re only a few years into the new console generation and problems are also starting. It’s definitely going to get worse as more demanding games start coming out. Microsoft is really going to have to loosen their parity policy, or it’s going to hold either the entire generation back or them back.

[–] NuPNuA@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Given that there's plenty of PCs out there with lower spec than the S they still need to scale their game for, I doubt it will be as big an issue as people make out. BG3 is an odd outlier as they've put a splitscreenode in the console game that the PC version doesn't have and that's what's holding things up.

[–] Bewildebeest@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure split screen is supported on PC?

[–] NuPNuA@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I didn't even see a local multiplayer option when I was playing on the deck?

[–] stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s available on PC, but not on Steam Deck.

[–] NuPNuA@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How did they manage that, the Deck doesn't usually get bespoke builds.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Valve lets you identify the deck. It's probably just a flag that hides the reference to it.

[–] stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It’s not a bespoke build; they just disabled the function on Steam Deck.

https://x.com/cromwelp/status/1685989272099213312?s=46&t=EUtgwMByNj4sQbVP9INV-Q

And for the record, you can run split screen on the Steam Deck; it’s just not supported.

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