One of the big surprises last night at The Game Awards 2023 was the reveal that Baldur's Gate 3 was available immediately on Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S, launching at a price of £57.99 / $69.99 on the Xbox Store.
It's still early days in terms of getting some performance analysis from these two new versions of BG3 for Xbox, but we do at least have some footage. YouTuber The Xbox Tester has already shared some clips from the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S versions, and you can watch both of those videos down below.
We've only got around 20 minutes of footage to analyse for each, but the first impressions seem good at least! Graphically, the Series S version seems to hold up well, and hopefully the performance will prove to be stable too.
Obviously with this being a shadow drop, we haven't had a chance to check out Baldur's Gate 3 just yet here at Pure Xbox, but we're hoping to bring you a full review of the game next week. Stay tuned for that!
Have you bought Baldur's Gate 3 for Xbox yet? First impressions? Tell us down in the comments below.
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Kinda annoyed it was shadow dropped.
Purely because of funds. Even last week I would have been able to buy it, now it's Xmas shopping time.
Ah well waited this long, what's a few more weeks.
@abe_hikura I thought for sure when the Baldur's Gate 3 trailer came on late in the show that it was going to announce that it was available now on Xbox...but instead it was just a general trailer that showed off the physical versions.
Maybe the fact it showed both PS5 and Xbox boxes was the "hint" but it was certainly subtle if that was how Larian wanted to announce it.
So disappointed this was the big surprise Xbox had up there sleeve a game I don't even care about and won't play
@abe_hikura @GamingFan4Lyf Interesting I didn't even think of it as a shadow drop as Xbox was featured in the trailer and when I checked the store it was there. I guess they could have been more blatant about it, but there was no need, all the press would do that for them. Probably gets more column inches this way too.
@abe_hikura kinda how I feel too. Might have to wait til pay day next week. Also playing super mario rpg, P5T and dead space. I need to at least finish 2 of those before starting BG3
@eire-shabba big suprise lol all they've done is release a game that's available on pc and ps5 I know the game is great and I'm buying it but suprise come off it
Ducking hell just watched and this is what all the fuss is about and won all those awards.
What a waste.
Shiver me timbers and hoist the Jolly Roger 🏴☠️
@eire-shabba I think the big Xbox reveal was Blade and not BG3.
Good thing I got all my Christmas shopping done. I can afford to play this now.
@FarmDog08 or OD
Looking forward to reading the reviews for this one on Xbox. I think it’s a good game, but one that was overhyped. It definitely is unique and the video game equivalent to D&D. It deserves its place as Goty 2023 for its cultural impact, even if it’s not my personal one. I talked about it at length yesterday with friends and it was interesting how different all of our solo plays were. Was a bit sad that I missed out on the big PC mp campaign some of friends had, but it’s still an interesting title. Hopefully it launches on Xbox in a better state than it did on PS5. It runs great now, but it was way too buggy for a 96 on Opencritic in 2023 when it launched on PS5.
@FarmDog08 really that's even worse no gameplay announcement trailer of blade a character who hasn't been relivent since the movies in the mid 2000s plz calm me down I'm going to die of excitement ha
@eire-shabba there's a new Blade movie coming, but to be honest I'm more excited about getting a new game from Arkane (even though Redfall was a miss, I love Dishonored, Deathloop and Prey) than about Blade himself.
It's hard to get excited about OD, since we haven't seen any gameplay... or even a coherent concept from the teaser... but I'm intrigued. I'm a big fan of Jordan Peele's horror movies, and the moment he entered the stage I got immediately more interested in this game/movie/whatever...
@DJKingaling Forgot about that as I'm not into the horror genre.
I'm intrigued to play this...but I imagine it will require lots of time to really get into it...and I just have to many games I haven't even started yet....barely touched Spiderman 2 yet
@RazputinAquato OD feels like a cut scene heavy game with minimal gameplay… using cloud resources to store all that video perhaps to keep the file size down?
Edit: if you watch the Kojima interview again the interpreter said there is a game somewhere in all the video….
As for BG3 this came out at exactly the wrong time for me as I spent all my money on Black Friday and now Xmas is coming…. So wait for a sale is my probable course of action….
I was excited about this game but I heard it’s got involvement from the Pillars of Eternity people and I really couldn’t get into that so I’ll just wait for the Elden Ring DLC for some fantasy gaming.
@GamingFan4Lyf actually a simple explanation. After winning GOTY, Larian were supposed to announce it as available on Xbox. They simply forgot in the excitement. True story.
@OldGamer999 wait what? I've seen you posting multiple times about how you're a long time gamer. Any gamer from the 90s onwards knows BG. How could you be surprised at what BG3 is?
@themightyant btw, BG3 was NOT a PS exclusive.
@jedinite accidentally, due to the delay on Xbox, it was a exclusive to PS5 on console for 3 months
@jedinite
I’ve never got into it, looking at the video I see it’s like turn based combat, definitely not my cup of tea and the sort of games I have always stayed well clear of. I did try turn based once but forget the name of the game, but not for me.
@OldGamer999 Fair enuff.
@themightyant but you can't say it was exclusive to PS5 is the point. If anything by your logic, which I agree with btw , it should be called a 'PC exclusive franchise' spanning a few decades or so 😉.
@jedinite I didn’t say it was exclusive to PlayStation, it wasn’t. What I did say is it was accidentally a “console exclusive”, which is the slightly strange terminology they use when it’s on one console but the others, but also on PC. Regardless it is no longer.
Edit: TBH I don’t like the term much, but I understand the point of it, otherwise you could argue Xbox consoles have almost no exclusives as almost all first party games come to PC. This term differentiates between games that are exclusive on consoles, but ignoring pc.
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