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Xbox boss Phil Spencer has addressed the fact Baldur's Gate 3 launches on PS5 before Xbox Series X and S in an interview at gamescom 2023.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Given that there’s plenty of PCs out there with lower spec than the S

Not when it comes to memory. The Xbox SS only has 10GB combined system memory and VRAM. The PC version of BG3 requires 8GB system memory plus 4GB of VRAM, so the SS is a couple gigabytes short in total.

Going by the Steam hardware survey, 95% of PCs have at least 8GB of system memory, with 16GB being easily the most common amount. 80% have at least 4GB of VRAM, with 8GB being the most common amount.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Apparently Microsoft wants games to run with only 6GB of shared memory in case there are too many background stuff taking up ram

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

“Access to this topic requires membership in an NDA developer program”

So, uh, what’s the correct value, then?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

For obvious reasons I can't post it publicly before MS discloses it. They are currently migrating more and more GDK docs to the public site, so I wouldn't be surprised if the link became publicly available soon, but currently one still needs to register a dev account to access it.