Larian Studios’ executive producer, David Walgrave, says that Baldur’s Gate 3 will release on PC first and might not land on current-gen consoles due to engine and technical upgrades. Walgrave claims that the upcoming RPG is a next-gen title and that PCs and Google Stadia are the only two that can properly run it as of now.
Although it could be bad optimization or spaghetti code at play, Walgrave says that the team at Larian Studios is focused on shipping the game out for PC goers.
The above information comes from publication site gamingbolt.com, which covers an interview that Eurogamer struck up with Walgrave.
The piece by the former website highlights one section of the lengthy conversation and, of course, it relates to Baldur’s Gate 3, platforms, and storefronts it could potentially land on at launch.
If you want, you can read Walgrave’s response to Eurogamer when asked if the team will bring the forthcoming RPG to other storefronts on PC or consoles:
“We are now focusing on PC and Stadia but that’s it. I… did not prepare for this question so I have no idea [laughs].
So, the previous games, we ported them to PC, Mac, Switch, Xbox and PlayStation. Because when you’ve been working on a game for three years or so, you just want to maximise the audience, like let’s sell it to more people!”
Later, Eurogamer asked Walgrave once the game is out on PC, and it does come to consoles, would it then be considered next-gen? Walgrave had this to say:
“I don’t think that current-gen consoles would be able to run it. There’s a lot of technical upgrades and updates that we did to our engine, and I don’t know if it would be capable of being able to actually run on those things.
Maybe it could run, but then we would have to tone down the textures and this and that and it wouldn’t look as cool anymore.”
Given that we are in current year, chances of a decent product coming out from Larian Studios seem slim. Anyway, the game has no release date and will launch on PC via Steam and Google’s barely breathing Stadia.
