The Xbox “platform is perfectly fine” Baldurs Gate 3 boss says
When speaking with Skill Up recently, Swen Vincke was asked if the Xbox Series S is “holding back the development of games?” Vincke said that it’s “an okay proposition” for Microsoft to want compatibility across both the Xbox Series X and Series S and that it’s up to the publisher or developer to decide if they want to develop their game for the platform. The CEO goes on to explain that Larien worked hard to get Divinity: Original Sin 2 ported to Nintendo Switch, likening the Xbox Series S to Nintendo’s console, which is the weakest console on the market. Larien Studios started out as a PC developer, so the team has a lot of experience building games for various system specifications.
“We’re going to get there; it’s just going to take some time. Do I think it holds [game development] back? It just defines certain parameters within which you have to develop, and there are ways of doing that,” Vincke said. “It just takes development effort, and that effort, despite us having grown, we don’t have infinite resources. That means we can’t do everything at the same time.”
Vincke seems certain that Baldur’s Gate 3 will launch on Xbox, and while the CEO hopes that it’ll arrive this year, Vincke doesn’t “want to commit to it because optimization comes with this annoying thing, where you know where you start but not where you end.”
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