Baldur's Gate 3 is so meaty, our Xbox cousins will need to play the Digital Deluxe on 4 disks wrapped in 'little slips' and stuffed into a single-disk box

A mimic, a creature in Baldur's Gate 3, lurches in ambush at the player - a box with razor teeth and a putrid tongue.

Baldur's Gate 3 has some meaty patches with some equally-meaty space requirements—and while it might be easy to moan about having to corner off a bunch of room on our SSDs for patches, at least we aren't playing on the Xbox version of the digital deluxe. It has four disks—twice as many as the PS5 version, and four times as many as on the PC version. According to a beleaguered director of publishing, it turns out that's not really supposed to happen anymore. 

After Larian's Michael Douse confirmed that "the Xbox retail version of Baldur’s Gate 3 will indeed have four discs" on Twitter, he spoke with PC Gamer's Ted Litchfield about the phenomena via email.