Xbox boss Phil Spencer has addressed the fact Baldur's Gate 3 launches on PS5 before Xbox Series X and S in an interview at gamescom 2023.

Xbox boss Phil Spencer has addressed the fact Baldur’s Gate 3 launches on PS5 before Xbox Series X and S in an interview at gamescom 2023.

  • kadu@lemmy.worldEnglish
    58·
    1 year ago

    I disagree. In many markets, the Series S is pretty much the only version that makes economic sense, and PC hardware (although more powerful) has been stagnated for two, maybe three generations.

    GTA V ran on an Xbox 360 - the Xbox 360 had an anemic CPU, 512 MBs of RAM and a mid end 2007 GPU. If developers managed to get that to work, they can work within the Series S’ bounds and limits. Just put the effort rather than using Unreal Engine’s default settings and shipping immediately.

    And I say that as someone who doesn’t own one, I own a PC, so it’s not like I’m biased in favor of the Series S. I think the entire industry needs to stop relying on ultra fast hardware to brute force it’s way through the horrendous quality of software they’re pumping out.

    And case in point, as good and well crafted as Baldur’s Gate 3 is, it’s got severe issues with how it handles NPC AI that tanks the CPU for absolutely no reason - games have solved the issue of calculating many possible interactions years ago. Baldur’s Gate barely makes use of multiple threads. Great game, but it does not use the hardware correctly.

    • stopthatgirl7@kbin.socialOP
      41·
      1 year ago

      You say it doesn’t use the hardware correctly, but the reason it can’t run in the S is because it’s got less RAM than last gen hardware, and they can’t get split screen to work because it needs more RAM. As the article points out, they have Microsoft engineers coming in trying to help them get split screen running, and they still might not be able to get it working until next year. That’s not an optimization issue. They would happily just disable split screen on the S like they did on the Steam Deck, but Microsoft parity requirements mean they can’t.

    • Hairyblue@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      The last Xbox I owned was the 360 (I still have in in the closet). I made a choice to go with Sony’s PlayStation and a good Linux gaming PC to cover almost all my games bases. But I do want ALL the games to come to Xbox players.