{"id":49592,"date":"2023-06-30T10:31:05","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T10:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/may-require-compromises-on-xbox"},"modified":"2024-07-19T18:39:22","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T18:39:22","slug":"may-require-compromises-on-xbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/may-require-compromises-on-xbox","title":{"rendered":"Baldur&#8217;s Gate 3 May Require &#8216;Compromises&#8217; On Xbox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Larian Studios has revealed that Baldur&#8217;s Gate 3 is still planned to launch on Xbox, though it&#8217;ll require &#8216;compromises&#8217; to actually launch on the platform.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to a new interview with I<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/microsoft-engineers-helping-get-baldurs-gate-3-split-screen-working-on-xbox-series-s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GN<\/a>, the major issue with getting the game on Xbox platforms is that Microsoft requires games to work on both Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S with the same gameplay features.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"ephox-summary-card\" style=\"max-width: 650px;\" data-ephox-embed-iri=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Knoebelbroet\/status\/1674434350916702210\"><a class=\"ephox-summary-card-link-thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Knoebelbroet\/status\/1674434350916702210\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ephox-summary-card-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-cf.ginx.tv\/imgcdn\/x9PSWIcFCnJKMD_8NJpA9QsTS3RtRiyEkdrGojXfCm0\/rs:fill:0:0:1\/g:ce\/aHR0cHM6Ly9wYnMudHdpbWcuY29tL21lZGlhL0Z6ekpLYmphTUFjekpaQy5qcGc6bGFyZ2U\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"FzzJKbjaMAczJZC.jpg:large\"> <\/a> <a class=\"ephox-summary-card-link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Knoebelbroet\/status\/1674434350916702210\"> <span class=\"ephox-summary-card-title\">Knoebel on Twitter<\/span> <span class=\"ephox-summary-card-description\">&#8216;Baldurs Gate 3&#8217; will now launch 4 weeks earlier on PC on August 3rd and a week later on September 6th on PS5!https:\/\/t.co\/pei7fQPgqH pic.twitter.com\/WEL8z2yczM&mdash; Knoebel (@Knoebelbroet) June 29, 2023<\/span> <span class=\"ephox-summary-card-author\">Knoebel<\/span> <span class=\"ephox-summary-card-website\">Twitter<\/span> <\/a><\/div>\n<p>Larian itself has stated that the split-screen co-op mode available in Baldur&#8217;s Gate 3 works well on Xbox Series X but doesn&#8217;t currently run to the level that Microsoft wants it to on Xbox Series S. The big issue is that the studio cannot remove split-screen from one of the Xbox releases without having to do that to the other version, and they don&#8217;t want to do that for obvious reasons.<\/p>\n<p>As stated in the IGN interview:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>We&#8217;re trying to be very limited in the compromises we have to make. That&#8217;s one of the reasons why we&#8217;re taking more time also. But I don&#8217;t want to jump ahead of the development team, which is doing remarkable things. I don&#8217;t want to say it&#8217;s going to be like this until we&#8217;ve finished and decided it&#8217;s good for release.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The release of the game was yesterday brought forward to August 4th, almost a whole month earlier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larian Studios has revealed that Baldur&#8217;s Gate 3 is still planned to launch on Xbox, though it&#8217;ll require &#8216;compromises&#8217; to actually launch on the platform.&nbsp;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12865,"featured_media":49593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-baldurs-gate-3","genre-rpg","content_type-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Baldur&#039;s Gate 3 May Require &#039;Compromises&#039; 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