The CEO of Larian Studios has revealed that the developer is being pressured to undertake optimisations on the upcoming Divinity that it wouldn’t ordinarily be doing at this stage due the elevated value of RAM.
Talking with TheGamer, Swen Vincke touched base on the varied pressures that Larian Studios is confronted with when releasing a title in Early Entry, and introduced up the growing price of RAM as one of many points the corporate is having to take care of.
Apparently, one other [issue Larian is facing] is basically the worth of RAM and the worth of SSDs and f**okay, man. It’s like, actually, we’ve by no means had it like this. It form of ruins your whole projections that you just had about it as a result of usually, you recognize the curves, and you’ll defend the {hardware}. It’s gonna be an attention-grabbing one. It implies that most definitely, we already must do lots of optimization work in early entry that we didn’t essentially need to do at that cut-off date. So it’s difficult, but it surely’s video video games.
Larian Studios introduced Divinity throughout The Recreation Awards 2025 final week, though proper now there’s no affirmation on a launch date or what platform(s) it should launch. The corporate this week acknowledged that it was utilizing generative AI to help within the growth course of, however harassed that Divinity gained’t really characteristic any content material produced by the tech.
This induced some backlash on-line, prompting Vincke to problem assertion to make clear that the studio solely makes use of “AI instruments to discover references, identical to we use Google and artwork books.”
Larian Studios is driving excessive off the again of the critically-acclaimed Baldur’s Gate III, which launched for PC in August 2023 and arrived for PS5 the next month. Regardless of the massive success of the RPG, Larian quickly introduced it might be transferring away from the franchise and the Dungeons & Dragons IP as an entire for its subsequent undertaking, reasonably than work on DLC for Baldur’s Gate III or a full sequel.
[Source – TheGamer]
