Larian Studios just announced that Baldur's Gate 3's release date has been changed for both PC and PlayStation 5. Unlike many release date changes, this one is a little bit different from the norm.
Baldur's Gate 3 will now be out on August 3 for PC, or a month earlier than what was previously announced. This move was presumably done to ensure that those on PC had plenty of time to dive into Baldur's Gate 3 before Starfield releases on September 6th. Speaking of Starfield, PlayStation 5's release of Baldur's Gate 3 will now take place on September 6, or a week later than previously announced. As Starfield isn't coming out on PlayStation 5, this shouldn't be too much of an issue since most people probably don't own both PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series consoles.
Today's changes to the release dates of Baldur's Gate 3 came about during a new Community Update from Larian Studios. In this same update to the community, Larian Studios talks a bit about how expansive the game is.
Larian has pulled these stats to put the scale of Baldur’s Gate 3 into perspective:
- Containing more dialogue than three times all three Lord of the Rings books combined, the script for Baldur’s Gate 3 contains over 2 million words
- With over 170 hours of cinematics, twice the length of every season of Game of Thrones combined
- Seven playable protagonists, each with their own rich stories, personalities, desires, and objectives, as well as a best-in-class character creation system for custom characters
- Play as one of 11 playable races and 31 subraces, with multiple body types
- 12 classes and 46 subclasses, compared to Divinity: Original Sin 2’s 10 "schools of spells"
- Over 600 spells and actions (excluding upcasts), compared to Divinity: Original Sin 2’s 225 player spells and actions
