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Baldur’s Gate 3 had to be scaled back for the Series S, but the console still has a right to exist (www.vg247.com)
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It'll be the cheapest place, by an absurd margin, to play Baldur's Gate 3.

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[–] 6 points 3 years ago (11 children)

Article is well written, and I agree with most of it actually.

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  • [–] [S] 13 points 3 years ago (9 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.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (7 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.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (4 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.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    Yeah feature parity made sense in the beginning so the S didn't get left behind but at this point its place feels secure to me. It's the cheap option. I think most gamers understand that and accept the trade-offs that are inherent in that choice.

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