There's Glimmer Of Hope For Baldur's Gate 3 Xbox Series S Split Screen

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There is still a glimmer of hope for the split screen feature on the Xbox Series S version of , despite the fact that the functionality is one of the factors that is impeding the popular RPG by Larian Studios from arriving on modern Xbox consoles. The game is notably missing from the platforms and the developer has already explained that problems making the split screen function work on the Xbox version of is what is keeping it from being shipped.

This is said to be an issue exclusively with the Series S, as the more powerful Series X is capable of running split screen. Nevertheless, because they are part of the same console family, they have not been allowed to ship two different versions of . Larian is hard at work trying to optimize the game for both consoles, and went so far to announce that the Series S may not have split screen at all. Nevertheless, a new update on the polishing has given some hope that this may not be the case.

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As shared by the game director and Larian Studios’ CEO, Swen Vincke, on X, the developer’s engineers found a “” Attached to the post, Swen shows the Top RAM and Top VRAM consumption of the game on Xbox Series S, as they mention that “” and that the title now has a “”, the lack of which was holding the team back from making on Xbox Series S a reality. Swen also says that this enhanced performance “” on which the game is available and that the release on Microsoft consoles is “”

While Swen did not mention that this would allow the Series S version of to now support the split screen feature, it did generate some hope. In fact, Halsin’s voice actor, Dave Jones, replied to Swen’s post, asking if the newly