Larian claims it would have been 'more advantageous' to release Baldur's Gate III simultaneously on Xbox

[John Elden Ring]

Michael Douse, the director of publishing at Larian Studios, responded to exclusivity comments by saying that the studio would have been better off being able to release on all platforms, but that was not possible. Additionally, he hopes "Xbox gamers will reconsider the boycott once the game hits consoles."

User: When it is released on Xbox, it will sell much less than it should, I saw in some places that this game will be boycotted because you are on the Playstation side in the console war.

Michael Douse: I respect your passion, but I'd like you to understand that the most win-win situation for us would be to launch on all platforms at the same time. There is no incentive for us to have done otherwise. Unfortunately, it wasn't possible this time. Hope they reconsider when it comes out.

Baldur's Gate III is available now on PC and arrives on PlayStation 5 on September 6th. The Xbox Series S|X version does not yet have a release date.

 

[anonpuffs]

Man good thing I don't handle PR for these companies. I would've told that dude to fuck off with the nonsense

 

[Entropi]

Why even bother? Interacting with those trolls is a waste of time and energy.

 

[flaccidsnake]

This is already giving more legitimacy to any boycott than it deserves.

 

[ethomaz]

Same could be said for PS5 version but sadly it had to be delayed for one month.

 

[Would_you_kindly]

Why are they even interacting with obvious fanboy accounts it would've released around the same time as starfield & surely anyone petty enough to boycott a game because Microsoft released the series potato were never going to buy it in the first place since they would presumably be busy playing starfield

 

[Nimrota]

Shouldn't the fans be boycotting Xbox instead? They're the ones whose policy is responsible for the game not releasing on their platform.

 

[Gods&Monsters]

Who needs to reconsider?

Larian wants to release BG3 without split screen on Xbox but Phil Spencer told him no?

 

[arvfab]

Shouldn't the fans be boycotting Xbox instead? They're the ones whose policy is responsible for the game not releasing on their platform.

This would require a bit of intelligence of the people complaining. These are the same people believing whatever Philocchio says.

 

[Kokoloko]

This would require a bit of intelligence of the people complaining. These are the same people believing whatever Philocchio says.

This would require to have more real fans and not mostly shills and employees that follow Discord instructions

 

[arvfab]

This would require to have more real fans and not mostly shills and employees that follow Discord instructions

I think there is a huge overlap of people in both of our statements.

 

[Shmunter]

Can’t do much with limited resources trying to scale for potato tech

 

[On Demand]

I wouldn’t have even responded to that.

Social media has given some people like that a high horse.

 

[FatKaz]

Xbox fanboys are entitled brats.

Boycott every game that's not coming to xbox, a lot of devs will probably be better of for it as they won't have to worry about dedicating resources to a platform were they won't sell shit.

 

[riesgoyfortuna]

Why devs wasted their time to respond xbot stupid warriors its a mistery to me

 

[Swift_Star]

Fanboys are stupid.
Larian haven't chose any sides, they just couldn't release on xbox because of series s.
MS shouldn't have released the series s in the first place.

 

[Nomen_Nescio]

Man good thing I don't handle PR for these companies. I would've told that dude to fuck off with the nonsense

Personally I find interacting with even normal people for work tiring, let alone idiots like this.

 

[Nimrota]

Having finished BG3 just a few days ago, and thinking about this, I don't think there is any way they can get it to reach parity. The only way this would be possible would be to severely downgrade the series X version. Even then, it doesn't help much because it's primarily a CPU limitation issue (see: Act 3) and the Series S has a worse CPU than the One X - they would have a better time trying to get parity with the One X. Genuinely don't know how they are going to be able to do it in an acceptable manner. What's worse is Larian will likely be attacked if the game runs poorly or looks worse than the PS5 version even though the factors for that difference are wholly outside of their control.

If you are a series X owner you really need to abandon ship because Microsoft's legacy this generation is going to be pandering to the cheap Series S fans because they outnumber you by, what is it? 3:1? 4:1?, and your console games will take a hit to enable them. Couldn't imagine being a Series X owner and having a game I want delayed due to Gamepass beggers who couldn't fork out an extra $100.

 

[Darth Vader]

The only way this would be possible would be to severely downgrade the series X version. Even then, it doesn't help much because it's primarily a CPU limitation issue (see: Act 3) and the Series S has a worse CPU than the One X

Wrong. The Series S has a much better CPU than the One X. Its not even in the same league.

 

[Nimrota]

Wrong. The Series S has a much better CPU than the One X. Its not even in the same league.

My mistake then. I may have googled the wrong thing when looking it up before. So the point about One X is incorrect, but the rest of the point stands that Series X owners are going to get an inferior product in the end.