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It'll be the cheapest place, by an absurd margin, to play Baldur's Gate 3.

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[–] stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Microsoft did the right thing by softening their stance on system parity. Insisting on it would have hurt the Xbox further along the line, but now devs know they can still release on Xbox if they can’t get one or two features to run on the S.

[–] Facebones@reddthat.com 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I didn't know it wasn't on Xbox, that's GOTTA be hurtin em. I'm sure they'll learn from this and make whatever exceptions need to be made far earlier next time.

[–] Spuddlesv2@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s not in PS5 yet either. Doesn’t come out for another week.

[–] Facebones@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

Ah, gotcha. IDK I've had it on PC for 2 years now haha.

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If I'm not mistaken the only reason it's not already on Xbox is because Microsoft insisted it needs to have shared screen on all models, which proved to be problematic and eventually impossible on S, but they refused to release it on X in the meantime.

Basically it's very much Microsoft's own doing.

[–] ampersandrew@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We don't know that it's impossible on the S. It may yet happen sometime after launch.

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh I see, I thought the dev team had pretty much given up on it.

[–] stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

They’re still trying to get it to work and are working with Microsoft engineers, from the last I heard.

It's already been hurting them a lot it sounds like. I don't think Baldur's Gate is the first game to not release on Xbox because they couldn't achieve system parity with the S. If they've really softened on it, then that's a good idea. Better late than never.