The physical Xbox edition of Baldur's Gate 3 may require 4 discs

Shep, Shadowheart, Gale and Karlach look horrified at the thought of a four-disc video game in 2024. — Screenshot: Larian Studios / Kotaku

The award-winning game of 2023 Baldur’s Gate 3 There is no physical disc edition yet. In November, Larian announced that a Deluxe Edition of Dungeons RPG is set to launch this year, giving you a boxed copy for your shelf and physical discs for PC. PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S, but it sounds like some parts of it are still in flux. Specifically that Xbox Series X/S version may have been expanded from a three-disc set to a four-disc set. You know the green cover is going to be thick as hell.

The best reveals from the Game Awards 2023

Larian publishing director Michael Douse tweeted about the situation on March 1 and said that while things could change, the likelihood of the Xbox version taking up four discs was not zero. In a statement about it My city Via DM, Douse said: “There will definitely be at least three, but maybe four, which is a problem. “But a fun problem.”

“The plan is for it to be entirely playable on CD, so that’s the reality we’re in,” he said. “Stupid of us!”

Back before games were installed on consoles, games like the original Final Fantasy VII

on PlayStation were on multiple discs that you could swap out as you played through. Nowadays, multi-disc games use them for large installations, with one disc acting as the “play” disc that you insert into your console to actually start the game. The rest is intended for data transport and can simply remain in the case after installation while the designated CD does the rest of the work. But Baldur’s Gate 3

is a big game, and it sounds like the Xbox will require more discs to get everything on discs, as opposed to a single, massive online install, than the PlayStation 5, which is on two discs must be installed.

Whatever happens, hopefully Baldur’s Gate 3 doesn’t run into the same problems Final Fantasy VII Rebirth just done where his slices were misprinted in Japan. The two-disc role-playing game had a manufacturing issue that caused the data and playback discs to be mislabeled, and although you can still play the game by simply swapping the discs, it caused some Japanese issues Fans probably had a mini heart attack when the installation didn’t appear to work.