Baldur’s Gate III Is Coming to Xbox This Year After All 392s3a but No Split-Screen Co-Op on Xbox Series S

Larian Studios was struggling to keep the feature on Xbox Series S consoles, due to performance issues. 4w234c

Written by Rahul Chettiyar, Edited by Manas Mitul | Updated: 25 August 2023 19:56 IST

Baldur’s Gate III Is Coming to Xbox This Year After All, but No Split-Screen Co-Op on Xbox Series S

Photo Credit: Larian Studios 3t288

Baldur's Gate 3 can also be played in online co-op

Highlights

Splitting the screen into 4, with heavy action, requires a lot of memory
Parity between features on Xbox Series S, X is required, as per Microsoft
Baldur’s Gate 3 is coming to PS5 on September 6

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struggling to enable for months now, thanks to the technical limitations of the console. In fact, to maintain parity of features between Baldur's Gate 3 on the Xbox Series S and X, Microsoft even sent engineers from their side to help out Larian.

“Super happy to confirm that after meeting [Spencer] yesterday, we've found a solution that allows us to bring Larian — especially, when all party run off in four directions, start hurling spells, and stress the console. That's a lot of on-screen activity on a single screen and in Vincke's words from a recent interview, “That requires memory.”

All improvements will be there, with split-screen coop on Series X. Series S will not feature split-screen coop, but will also include cross-save progression between Steam and Xbox Series.
— Swen Vincke @where? (@LarAtLarian) August 24, 2023

That lack of memory has to do with Microsoft making the PlayStation, but rather because they were struggling to maintain parity between both consoles on the Green Team. Microsoft's policy enforces gameplay feature parity between Xbox Series S and X, so players with the lower-end console aren't left out. As for whether Microsoft is making an exception for Baldur's Gate 3 or lifting the rule entirely for games in the generation, remains to be seen.

Speaking to Xbox Series S/X, so you can jump between platforms and continue from where you left off.

Larian Studios also dropped their promised first patch for Baldur's Gate 3, which addresses over 1,000 bugs and balancing issues, in addition to fixing the kissing for shorter races. Earlier, the animation made it look like your short character, who couldn't reach their romantic interest, was simply leaning in and kissing their chest. Now, if you're not tall enough, your partner will kneel down to make . You can check out the entire list of changes on the official website. Meanwhile, the studio will continue working on a second patch, which will include ‘significant performance improvements' (for Act 3 content, I'm assuming).

Baldur's Gate 3 is out now on PS5 version releases on September 6, while the Xbox Series S/X version is slated for release sometime this year.

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Baldur's Gate III 2m5145

REVIEW
KEY SPECS
NEWS

Good
Deeply thought-out writing
Highly reactive world
In-depth character customisation
Charming characters; stellar voice acting
Combat that rewards creativity
Flexible navigation around the map
Stunning cinematics
No microtransactions or always-online requirement

Bad
Performance issues in Act 3

Read detailed Larian Studios Baldur's Gate III review

Genre RPG

Platform PlayStation 5 (PS5), PC: Windows, PC: macOS

Modes Single-player, Multiplayer

Series Baldur's Gate

PEGI Rating 18+

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