The headline of this news is obviously ironic, but CD Projekt RED co-executive Michal Nowakowski wants to make it clear: the studio has learned the lessons of Cyberpunk 2077, so yes, The Witcher 4 also works well on PS5 and Xbox Series.
“Come into our offices right now and release The Witcher 4,” Nowakowski said. “You can release it on PC, you can release it on PS5, you can release it on Xbox Series it works in all situations”.
During Cyberpunk 2077, developer CD Projekt RED “Their goal is to get the best graphics possible: We want to push the limits of what’s possible in film rendering and everything else, and the PC is the best machine to do that. ”
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“There was a belief at the time to scale down the game to fit the needs of the current generation, but that turned out to be wrong. It won’t be a big challenge”, as we know, it does happen, but the goal is that history doesn’t repeat itself.
no more risks
Days after The Witcher 3 Remake was announced, Nowakovsky reflects on Geralt’s latest adventure Already encountered difficulties during developmentbut the team managed to overcome these difficulties, which helped build overconfidence.
“From now on, we are not taking any risks,” CD Projekt RED co-CEO subsequently announced. “We want to make sure it actually works”, and if something goes wrong, work will stop until critical issues are resolved.
“For example, technically we were supposed to check ten boxes. In the past, if we missed one or two boxes, we thought, ‘We’ll catch up later.'” Sometimes we succeed, sometimes we don’t”.
“So you find you still have four or five boxes to tick on the road map, The situation is not simple at all”.