Baldur's Gate 3 Is In Development For Xbox, But There's A Series S Snag

This isn't Devs being lazy at all, we're living in the land of 4K TV's (not 1080p), cell phones (not landlines), high speed internet (not dial up), and so on. The Series S is a cheap, hey I can't get a Series X, so let's make MS MORE money and make a weaker console. Even the One X should have been kept in development (production) over the One S/and Series S. Drop those!! The One X is still getting games at Native 4K, the Series X is only twice as powerful. That's not a night and day difference at all, just a weaker CPU in the One X.

Devs don't want to deal with weaker GPUS, and limited memory bandwidth, why would they? Would you? If you're going along, everythings fine, and there's a bump in the road, you need to hit it, or go around. Well devs have been going AROUND the Series S limitations for just over 2 years now. And they're tired of it. So yes drop the thing, MS are a trillion dollar company. In fact they LOSE money with every console they sell. Look at the facts and figures. Save up for the best, get the best, and have no worries. That's all these development teams are asking for a well. Why make it so difficult for them (unnecessarily). Because at the end of the day, no developers, not games..then what? Stop blaming them for the Series S being a (Potato).

What a miStake.

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Comment section at its finest.

Hilarious reading that Larian Studios is 'lazy' no one still makes RPG games like these anymore because it's the opposite of laziness lol.

Also I don't think the Series S was ever ruled out, they clearly noted to be having trouble with it and want Baldur's Gate III to meet the same standards as the other platforms.

Drop split screen from Xbox and release at the same time as the PS5, Patch it in later if they get it working on the Series S, Or hopefully MS will allow them to patch the Series X first then the series S later.

It's good to be back after all of these years

Drop mandatory S compatibility, drop proprietary storage.

These devs are lazy point blank. If you can optimize a game to run on a PC with less horsepower than a series S, then you can get it to run on the series no excuses. Microsoft made a console that should run just about every game in 1440p an 1080, this isn't rocket science. I build PCs all the time for people and yes some of those are weaker than the series S and the still run graphic heavy games at 1080p, 60fps. This just pure laziness.

Xbox should have never made a Series, their marketing was misleading but some of us could see it's shortcomings soon as the next gen games start releasing and in full swing. People would've been better off keeping their Xbox One X and saved for the Series X if they really wanted to experience next gen console gaming . I've got a feeling Series S would give Xbox devs alot of similar issues going forward, starting with Starfield

The Series S is somehow more pathetic than the Nintendo Switch. At least with the Switch’s potato hardware, devs still optimize their games to run on it due to guaranteed profits.

The Series S is just a turd in the punchbowl.

There's no such thing as "console exclusivity". Something is exclusive (released for one platform), or not. In this case not, because of PC, primary platform for this game.

Saw this coming a mile away, been saying it on Reddit for a while now. Eventually devs are just going to skip Xbox because of it and here it is.

Can some tell the minimum PC requirements and how they compare to the Series S specs?
I am not a tech person so i couldnt tell if they are comparable.
Anyways,i dont believe that Sony has anything to do with it.
Maybe Xbox can get in touch with Larian?
It werent the first time Xbox did something like that...Diablo 3/60fps problems got solved back then.

Lazy developers not knowing how to optimize their code is what it is.

Just look at all the games running perfectly on the S.

It runs on SteamDeck but not on Series S? Okay, sure buddy.
I guess Sony must be including "create up some technical excuse for why you can't release the game on Xbox other than for the reason that we're paying you" for their exclusivity agreement contracts.

Frigin MS! This is a generation that the Series-S cannot handle every game. Stop hamstringing the Series -X. You're basically making the X into an S like that. Drop that stupid requirement!

Or better yet, put out a hardware revision for the S or make it your Game pass machine. But don't hold back all the X owners. We kinda paid the extra money for a reason.

I have a Series S and would have liked to play Baldur's Gate 3, but if they can't do it then it should just be a Series X game. I can live without it.