Larian have disabled split screen on the Steam Deck to account for that lower power. They can't do the same thing for the XBox S release because Microsoft demand feature parity with the X.
It's also bright and colourful and slightly cartoonish in a way that, say, Pillars of Eternity wasn't. I wonder if this makes it feel slightly more mainstream, slightly more 'fun', and a bit less like a stodgy old CRPG from yesterday (and to be clear, I loved PoE the way I loved BG and BG2).
It's also got enough wild shit in it to grab a few headlines that way.
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