Baldur’s Gate 3 being Steam Deck Verified is angering Xbox players, as Larian has not announced a Series X|S port.

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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.

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Yeah, they’re mad at developers, but they should be mad that Microsoft insists on hamstringing Series X so series S can pretend to be current gen.

If they were equal, they’d cost the same. But they obviously don’t, so it makes no sense Microsoft insists they can handle the same stuff.

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No one in the linked article is mad at developers? They are mad at Microsoft, that is what the article is about.

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Yeah, I despise the Series S for this reason. It’s crippling game innovation, imho.

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Do we know if the Series S sold a lot more than the series X?

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Huh I wonder if the steam deck has any two+ player games. I’m gonna go ask at the steamdeck community.

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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.

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This makes sense.

FPS take a big dip on my machine whenever we add the second player. In some cases the frame rate is a bit shit but we still keep playing because the game is that good.

Hopefully it will get some improvements soon though.

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