Baldur’s Gate 3 on Xbox Series X|S still has some issues

Baldur’s Gate 3 has been one of the biggest hits of the year, bringing millions of players into the world of Dungeons & Dragons across PC and PS5 these last few months. But its road to Xbox was a rocky one at best, and now that it’s finally here, I’m sad to say that you should probably play it on something else if you can. Let me preface this by saying that by no means is Baldur’s Gate 3 a bad game, even on Xbox. It’s an utterly brilliant game with rock-solid gameplay, nice visuals, and performance that is surprisingly consistent even on the Series S. On Series X, the game is more or less identical to its PS5 counterpart — good-looking, well-performing, and according to Digital Foundry’s analysis, minor differences separate the two. Series S is notably lower resolution, at least when playing on my 60” TV, looking a little bit fuzzier and performing a little bit worse due to its lack of a performance mode — but it’s still far from looking and performing poorly. And of course, the gameplay is the same no m