After the resounding success of Baldur’s Gate 3, Larian has unexpectedly expressed a desire to develop a smaller title next time.
Despite the great success of Baldur’s Gate 3Larian’s CEO, Swen Vincke, has discussed plans for the studio’s future in the wake of its significant early access hit. Speaking to Bloomberg, Vincke mentions that while the future of the studio is uncertain, the developers know they want to work on something smaller. No one at Larian wants to spend another six years developing one game. At least not yet.
“It’s like making a movie — or many movies at once,” Vincke said. “We didn’t expect to need a lighting team, or a cinematics QA team, or such a big audio team.”
Baldur’s Gate 3 has a great start and quickly becomes the second largest launch of 2023 to date. After its official release this Thursday, the role-playing title reached its highest concurrent player count of 700,000, according to SteamDB.
You can currently play Baldur’s Gate 3 on PC, with the PS5 version coming out next month. However, those with Xbox Series X|S will have to wait at least another year. On Twitter, Larian’s publishing director Michael Douse suggested that the issues related to the launch on Xbox may not be resolved until 2024.
“We have quite a few engineers working very hard to do what no other RPG of this scale has achieved: seamless drop-in, drop-out co-op on Series S,” Douse wrote. “We hope to have an update by the end of the year.”
In the meantime, the Baldur’s Gate 3 developers advise players to delete their early access saves and uninstall the game before playing the 1.0 release.
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