Baldur’s Gate 3 being Steam Deck Verified is angering Xbox players, as Larian has not announced a Series X|S port.
The Steam Deck doesn’t have the split screen co-op that Microsoft is insisting the series S have with the game.
In fairness to both Larian and Microsoft, the very feature that seems to be keeping Baldur’s Gate 3 off the Xbox Series X|S is also a problem for Steam Deck. The developers have disabled split-screen co-op on the handheld, and while gamers have found a workaround, it does seem to negatively impact game performance.
Huh I wonder if the steam deck has any two+ player games. I’m gonna go ask at the steamdeck community.
I mean, its just a handheld pc. Think of any pc game with splitscreen and boom theres one (as long as it works in proton). You can connect bluetooth controllers and dock it to a tv too, so your’re not akwardly playing on one handheld screen.
I just have to say, I hate articles that use tweets or reddit posts, etc as their sources.
It’s stupid, meaningless drivel.
Also, everyone knows it’s the split screen co-op that is holding this up for Xbox. Steam deck doesn’t demand to have working split screen co-op.
This article, and the tweets the author based it on is absolutely meaningless. Is it stupid that Microsoft has made this a policy? Yes, yes it is. Do we need to write about the tweets (mostly uniformed tweets) from random Twitter users in an entire article? No. No we don’t.
I personally think the S model may have been a bad idea for next Gen. I would think that if Larian got permission to release it to just the series X that there would be riots in the streets.
Larian seemed confident that that would get the series S working with split screen eventually. I know how frustrating waiting for a great game can be when everyone else is already playing it.
I think the idea for the S model is good. Where the X is for 4K and the S is for 1080p.
The execution of that idea is horrible. They have a weird RAM configuration.
Series X - 16GB GDDR6 RAM 10GB @ 560 GB/s 6GB @ 336 GB/s
Series S - 10GB GDDR6 RAM 8GB @ 224GB/s 2GB @ 56GB/s
I honestly cannot fathom why someone would buy a series s over a steam deck.
Console GamePass maybe? The Xbox GamePass has more games than PC GamePass.
I just can’t wait for FSR2.2 which I hope and assume will be better than 1.0 which is absolute trash. I just can’t see shit with that turned on. The only time it’s acceptable is maybe at higher settings which basically bring no fps benefit. I’ve been really happy with everything on Low, no FSR, TAA and max FX Sharpening and unlocked framerate. Looks really crisp. But obviously I welcome future optimizations.
