The Steam Deck doesn’t have the split screen co-op that Microsoft is insisting the series S have with the game.

In fairness to both Larian and Microsoft, the very feature that seems to be keeping Baldur’s Gate 3 off the Xbox Series X|S is also a problem for Steam Deck. The developers have disabled split-screen co-op on the handheld, and while gamers have found a workaround, it does seem to negatively impact game performance.

I just have to say, I hate articles that use tweets or reddit posts, etc as their sources.

It’s stupid, meaningless drivel.

Also, everyone knows it’s the split screen co-op that is holding this up for Xbox. Steam deck doesn’t demand to have working split screen co-op.

This article, and the tweets the author based it on is absolutely meaningless. Is it stupid that Microsoft has made this a policy? Yes, yes it is. Do we need to write about the tweets (mostly uniformed tweets) from random Twitter users in an entire article? No. No we don’t.

I personally think the S model may have been a bad idea for next Gen. I would think that if Larian got permission to release it to just the series X that there would be riots in the streets.

Larian seemed confident that that would get the series S working with split screen eventually. I know how frustrating waiting for a great game can be when everyone else is already playing it.