![Shep, Shadowheart, Gale, and Karlach look on in horror at the thought of a four-disc video game in 2024.](https://i.kinja-img.com/image/upload/c_fit,q_60,w_645/4b5c16aef475a5c5847fcfda4a46cceb.jpg)
The award-winning 2023 recreation Baldur’s Gate 3 doesn’t have a bodily disc version out within the wild but. In November, Larian introduced {that a} Deluxe Version of the Dungeons & Dragons RPG is ready to launch this 12 months that gives you a boxed copy on your shelf and bodily discs for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Sequence X/S, however it seems like some elements of it are nonetheless in flux. Particularly, the Xbox Sequence X/S model might have expanded from a three-disc set to a four-disc set. You realize that inexperienced case is gonna be thick as hell.
Larian director of publishing Michael Douse tweeted concerning the state of affairs on March 1, saying that whereas issues may change, there’s a non-zero probability the Xbox model will take up 4 discs. In a press release to Kotaku by way of DM, Douse mentioned, “It’s positively going to be at the least three, however is likely to be 4, which is an issue. However a enjoyable downside.”
“The plan is for it to be absolutely playable on disc, in order that’s the truth we discover ourselves in,” he mentioned. “Foolish us!”
Again earlier than video games had been put in on consoles, video games like the unique Ultimate Fantasy VII on PlayStation had been on a number of discs that you’d swap all through a playthrough. Lately, video games with a number of discs use them for big installs, with one disc performing because the “play” disc you set in your console to really begin the sport. The remaining are there to hold knowledge and, after set up, can simply sit within the case whereas the designated disc does the remainder of the work. However Baldur’s Gate 3 is an enormous recreation, and it seems like getting all of it on discs versus a single, large on-line set up goes to take extra discs for the Xbox than the PlayStation 5, which can set up throughout two discs.
No matter occurs, hopefully, Baldur’s Gate 3 doesn’t run into the identical points Ultimate Fantasy VII Rebirth simply did, by which its discs had been misprinted in Japan. The 2-disc RPG had a producing concern that had the info and play discs mislabeled, and when you can nonetheless play the sport simply by swapping the discs out, it seemingly gave some Japanese followers a mini coronary heart assault when the set up didn’t seem to work.