Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 director explains why Xbox version was shadow dropped Larian StudiosBaldur\u2019s Gate 3 director Swen Vincke has revealed why the Xbox Series X\/S port was released without a formal launch date announcement. Xbox fans have been waiting all year for a port of Baldur\u2019s Gate 3, especially as the PC and PS5 versions racked up critical acclaim and multiple industry awards. Fortunately, Larian Studios promised that the Xbox port would be announced at The Game Awards 2023. Those who watched as Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 cleaned up at The Game Awards were left confused, as no Xbox Series X\/S port announcements were made. It wasn\u2019t until the show ended that Larian revealed that the Xbox Series X\/S version was available to download. Considering the show was filled with reveals, including commercials for Baldur\u2019s Gate 3, it\u2019s curious why more of an effort wasn\u2019t made to announce the Xbox Series X\/S. It turns out the reason is mundane and understandable. Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 director forgot to announce the Xbox Series X\/S port release date Swen Vincke has explained on his Twitter\/X account that he was meant to announce the release date for the Xbox Series X\/S port of Baldur\u2019s Gate 3, but he forgot. This is understandable, considering the excitement of the occasion and there being no guarantees of winning an award. The Game Awards 2023 has come under fire for not giving award recipients a lot of time to give their speeches and quickly running through some major categories in a quick-fire series of announcements. However, this may have been prompted by a certain incredibly long speech from last year\u2019s event. Vincke went up on stage when Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 won Game of the Year, but he used his time to thank everyone involved with the production and the fans for supporting the game, which was more important than a release date. It was odd that Larian promised to announce the Xbox Series X\/S release date during The Game Awards, only for it to be planned as a mention that never happened. It would have made sense to include it in the Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 accolades trailer that ran during the show, but it wasn\u2019t meant to be. The Xbox Series X\/S owners of the world can finally play one of the best games of 2023, just as it finished winning awards for the year. Luckily, they\u2019re getting a superior version of the game than the PC\/PS5 launch ports, thanks to all of the updates, so they can\u2019t be too mad about the late shadow drop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 director explains why Xbox version was shadow dropped Larian StudiosBaldur\u2019s Gate 3 director Swen Vincke has revealed why the Xbox Series X\/S port was released without a formal launch date announcement. Xbox fans have been waiting all year for a port of Baldur\u2019s Gate 3, especially as the PC and PS5 versions […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}