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Baldur’s Gate 3 is now out on Xbox Series X|S

A Christmas gift for Xbox owners

Marco Wutz

Baldur’s Gate 3 is now out on Xbox Series X|S
Baldur’s Gate 3 is now out on Xbox Series X|S /

The release date for Baldur’s Gate 3 on Xbox Series X|S has been revealed at this year’s The Game Awards, just as developer Larian Studios promised: Owners of the Microsoft console may experience the acclaimed CRPG starting right now, just in time for the holidays. Why go to church when you can worship Shadowheart instead, right?

Baldur’s Gate 3 came out for PC in August and for PS5 in September 2023. The Xbox version is late due to Microsoft’s policy of forcing complete feature parity on the Series X and S. Larian has previously revealed that split-screen multiplayer was difficult to implement on the Series S, which delayed the launch of the highly anticipated game on both Xbox versions. Microsoft even jumped in to help the Belgian studio out with optimizing the game for the weaker version of its console.

Baldur's Gate 3 Shadowheart holding her artifact.
Everyone should have a Shadowheart in their lives / Larian Studios

Ultimately, Microsoft made an exception to its policy for Baldur’s Gate 3, allowing the game to come to Series S without split-screen co-op, though both parties clarified afterwards that they were still working on getting the feature implemented.

Baldur’s Gate 3 has been nominated for eight awards at The Game Awards 2023 and has been a stand-out success even in this exceptionally strong year for video games.

With the Xbox edition finally at hand, the title will finally be available for all current-gen platforms aside from Nintendo Switch – but there is no tech magic to get the game to run on that console.

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Marco Wutz
MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg

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