Baldur's Gate 3 director meant to announce the Xbox version at The Game Awards, but completely forgot

[John Elden Ring]

Baldur's Gate 3's game director was meant to announce the Xbox version's release date last night at The Game Awards 2023, but he plum forgot.

Last night, Baldur's Gate 3 lead Swen Vincke was in Los Angeles to accept the Game of the Year award on behalf of all the developers at Larian. Apparently, Vincke was supposed to announce that the RPG was out on Xbox right then and there, as he was accepting the award, but by his own admission, he just plain forgot.

That's right - Larian's RPG was stealth-launched for Xbox Series X/S consoles yesterday, December 7, as a complete surprise. We had no idea the huge game would be released then and there, but we knew Larian was slated to make some big announcement about the port at the awards ceremony.

What Vincke did do with his acceptance speech, though, was pay tribute to Larian cinematics director Jim Southworth, who sadly passed away earlier this year. There are a few people in the responses to Vincke's tweet above praising the Baldur's Gate 3 director for paying tribute to Southworth in his acceptance speech.

 

[FatKaz]

"Forgot"

Man doesn't want to be associated with mediocrity.

 

[Sircaw]

Baldur's Gate 3's game director was meant to announce the Xbox version's release date last night at The Game Awards 2023, but he plum forgot.

Last night, Baldur's Gate 3 lead Swen Vincke was in Los Angeles to accept the Game of the Year award on behalf of all the developers at Larian. Apparently, Vincke was supposed to announce that the RPG was out on Xbox right then and there, as he was accepting the award, but by his own admission, he just plain forgot.

they already got their award, they are out of there.

 

[anonpuffs]

To be fair it's easy to forget about Xbox, more devs should do the same

 

[Alabtrosmyster]

Priorities.

 

[KiryuRealty]

Wow.


Nothing says a platform has lost prestige quite like the developer of a major title being released for it not being bothered to remember to announce a surprise release.

 

[Heisenberg007]

 

[Sloane_Ranger]

I hope this was a snub aimed at MS for the ‘second-run Stadia PC RPG’ commentary revealed during the FTC findings.

 

[Loy310]

Lmao

 

[Yurinka]

Nice, MS well deserved a second-run Stadia announcement in Twitter instead of when receiving an award.

 

[Entropi]

He knows bots will forget to buy it anyway.

 

[Dabaus]

"Forgot." Disgusting how the "plan" was that instead of letting the winner revel in it they were supposed to tie in xbox as well. All because the series S exists in the first place. He didnt forget, he didnt want his special moment to be tainted by xboxs attempt at showmanship.

 

[ksdixon]

Fucks sake man, now I look like a dick laughing on bus

 

[Ezekiel]

There was no way of announcing it without bringing to the forefront that it was still not on exbox because of how badly engineered the MS boxes are.

 

[Cool hand luke]

This is hilarious. Xbox really is dead.

 

[Alabtrosmyster]

This is hilarious. Xbox really is dead.

We could say they flatlined.

 

[toadsage44]

Phil Spencer replied to the tweet from Swen and misspelled the name of the game what a hack. Trust us, Phil's a "real gamer, just like us™"

 

[Say1nMan]

Remember Baldur's Gate 3 coming to Game Pass shadow drop bomb? Good times.

 

[Alabtrosmyster]

Phil Spencer replied to the tweet from Swen and misspelled the name of the game what a hack. Trust us, Phil's a "real gamer, just like us™"

So many "neutral" YouTubers took time to assure me he was one of us. It must be true!