2023-06-29 16:01:00
For once, the Larian studio is advancing the PC release date of Baldur’s Gate 3 by almost a month, now set for August 3. The PS5 launch has been pushed back a week to September 6.
In the gaming industry, release date postponements are aplenty. It is less common for a launch date to be brought forward. This is nevertheless what the studio announces Running by press release: the release of Baldur’s Gate 3 will not take place on August 31 as initially announced, but almost a month earlier, starting on August 3. At the same time, the launch on PS5 which was also scheduled for August 31 will be pushed back a short week and is now set for September 6. For the record, no launch date on Xbox Series is announced at this point, but Larian has not concluded any exclusivity with Sony. The developer explained that he was facing technical difficulties on the console of Microsoft. In the long term, a launch on Xbox is therefore not excluded.
And as if to anticipate possible questions about the quality of the port on Sony’s console following the postponement, the developer specifies “achieving 60 FPS on PlayStation 5 “, a performance deemed “remarkable given the breadth and depth of Baldurs Gate 3 ».
The developer also points out that when it is released, Baldur’s Gate 3 will offer “seven playable protagonists, each with their own story, personality, desires and goals”. The player will have access to 11 character races and 31 ethnicities with several types of morphologies, for 12 classes and 46 subclasses, allowing to use 600 spells and actions which can be improved according to the progression – for comparison, Larian recalls that Divinity: Original Sin 2 only offered 10 schools of magic, for 255 spells. And to better take the measure of the scale of Baldur’s Gate 3, the developer praises in particular the “two million words” which make up the script of the game or the 170 hours of cutscenes which punctuate the narrative framework of the title. So many elements that will be revealed concretely in the final version of the game, from the beginning of August on PC, then in September on PS5.
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