Witcher 2 '360 version improved' Says Developer

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Substance1015445d ago

They are a small developer, from what i heard porting to 360 is easy. Porting to PS3 would require too many resources hence may not be a feasible option.

ksense5445d ago

they never said they are not doing a ps3 version. since they are a small team they are starting with x360. I can almost guarantee that the game will come on ps3 down the line so whenever their next title comes all platforms will be supported.

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Ares845445d ago

Maybe another studio can do it for them?? It's not like this haven't been done before.

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Phantasm5445d ago (Edited 5445d ago )

I also read this. They said they would like to bring it to the PS3, but because they're a small studio, they just don't have the resources to do so.

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bozebo5445d ago (Edited 5445d ago )

Substance is right.

TW2 already has a base of DX9 shaders & other rendering code that will instantly work on the 360. For the PS3, they have to re-write all that and a lot of the other code - and infact restructure the entire multithreaded architecture of the game. The PS3 uses OpenGL for a start, and it's GPU is far less shader capable than the 360's but the SPUs are there to be used for that, however they require entirely new custom programming that differs greatly from the code for PC/360.

Also, there aren't many developers that offer outsourcing for PS3 ports. Most of the skilled/trained/experienced individuals work for Sony exclusive partners - which is just a little mess Sony have gotten themselves into by making it hard to program for (and kept under control by headhunting for exclusive studios).

Next gen they may have a return to dominance because they wont make that mistake again. I think that MS are planning to release the '720' as an x64 machine running Windows 8 with a unique compatibility layer for gaming with that as a minimum spec. They don't have Blu-Ray hardware licensed and it is too early for digital distribution only (especially in their core markets).

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AKS5445d ago

Would Atlus be interested in porting the PS3 version? They always do a fantastic job with RPGs. I realize they usually bring in overlooked JRPGs, but I think they would do a great job with this as well if they are interested.

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DualConsoleOwner5445d ago

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reynod5445d ago (Edited 5445d ago )

lol have a look at the list, i see mostly PC and PS3 gamers. Anyways most PS3 gamers claim to have their fictitious rigs why not get the game on PC:P Its cheaper and superior.

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testerg355445d ago

DualConsoleOwner, where are 360 fans "desperately hoping it won't come to the 360" comments?

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EVILDEAD3605445d ago (Edited 5445d ago )

Really looking forward to the game..especially after PC gamers have been ranting and raving at how good it is.

It looks like a 360 trifecta of RPG love for for me with Deus, Skyrim and this..

Great year to be a gamer

Evil

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wolokowoh5445d ago

Actually they've said they've considered and are working on an engine for PS3 already, maybe for the Witcher 2 or future games.It's in an interview in Polish. The problem is they can't handle porting both versions at the same time and wish to focus on maximizing the quality of one version. BTW you can build a $900 that will run it with some highest settings as long as you cut uber sampling and a few features off. The same rig will run anything in the forseeable maxed out or on at least high. The obvious question is Battlefield 3 but that just depends on optimization and what setting you're willing to cut off..

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BeOneWithTheGun5445d ago

Agreed. If they see good sales on the 360 that is def more capital for the ps3 version. Regardless, I am stoked to play it on my 360 and when the ps3 version comes out will play again for trophies.

nopunctuation5445d ago

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If you want to know what a facekeyboard looks like, that was it. For real.

RedDead5445d ago

Evil dead, don't forget dark souls! Bound to be great, just like Demons sols was

mac_sparrow5445d ago

@reynod

"Anyways most PS3 gamers claim to have their fictitious rigs why not get the game on PC:P Its cheaper and superior."

I did, on my supposedly fictitious pc.

Seriously though, even though I have this game on PC for the mods and as it's where it was meant to be played, I would still like to see a ps2 release for those that don't have a pc to run it.

Bull5hifT5445d ago

Witch = Woman.... Witcher = ?.... Warlock = Male Witch.... Mermaid = WomanFish..... Merman = Friggen Gay.... Whats with the Name Please Explain

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Denethor_II5445d ago

Maybe Sony should help them out if that is indeed the case.

Lich1205445d ago

@bull

Well, he's kinda a lady killer in the game. So, perhaps a witcher is someone who wrangles witches. Or more likely it's a term that exists in the context of the game and doesn't have a real world basis.

sjaakiejj5445d ago

@bozebo

You are correct with almost everything you said, up until this:
"which is just a little mess Sony have gotten themselves into by making it hard to program for "

The PS3 isn't hard to program for, that's the wrong word to use. It's very different to program for, but quite familiar to developers that are familiar with programming for Linux in general.

Since Windows has always been the dominating operating system, many developers only ever got experience in professional game programming for that operating system. For younger developers, that's starting to change, with experience in OpenGL and Linux being a focus in many University courses.

Dude4205444d ago

@ Bull5hifT

Witcher actually has the same meaning as Warlock. They decided to call him the Witcher instead of the Warlock because it's more suitable to the character.

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Hands Up For Games5445d ago

I dont see how anyone could bash you for that opinion!

I dont have a rig that is capable of playing The Witcher 2 the way its supposed to, so Im delighted that its coming to 360.

I know a few of my PS3 only friends would also love to play this game, so come on, CD Projekt, make it so!!

wolokowoh5445d ago

Do you have an old rig though? You can build a rig for around $900-$1100(I get my stuff on sale, list price would be more like $1500) that will run it maxed out with a few features cut off. The changes the features make aren't major except ubersampling but this so demanding it's ridiculous especially because the Witcher 2 is an overly demanding game as it is. If you already have a decent rig you can save some money and cut some corners. Here's a forum comparing graphics cards. http://forums.gametrailers....
A card that gets any more than 30-40 with a weaker cheaper CPU than is used for the chart is pointless. Expect to spend $100-200 on a graphic card and $450-600(sale price not list price) for the CPU. That being said you can get the other parts for a lot cheaper than you'd expect. As said before you can continue to lowe the price by settling for less than highest settings. You're already settling for "medium settings" on the 360 so you might as well lower your standards on PC and wait for the more power cards to become the cheap ones.

RedDragan5444d ago

Depending on how much you invest into games, it might be worth you while to build a new PC Rig.

So you will basically see a huge price tag on the hardware, say around $1000.... but when the Steam Sales come around you can get amazing games for as low $5 or less. Over one year you will have already started seeing good cost cutting model in action.

How much would 20 $5 games cost on PS3 or 360?! These games would cost you upto $60 each... and it is those games you get see in the rediculously awesome Steam Sales. In 3 years you are already starting to get financially above the console route. By year four, you have spent alot less than you console counterpart... and that is if you are not a so called hardcore gamer. Because 10 new PS3 or 360 titles can cost upto $600... a year.

It does ofcourse depend on how many games you think you buy a year.

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Gray-Fox-Type05445d ago

This bad for the PC and PS3 gamers..As PC lost a great exclusive and PS3 getting nada...

But maybe 2 years down the line they will get it..

Lord_Sloth5445d ago

They didn't say it isn't coming to the PS3, just that it's coming to the 360.

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Substance1015445d ago

Only console gamers see it that way. Loosing an exclusive lol. Imo all games should be multiplat. However they should catter to every platforms strength.

Unfortunately the platform that suffers the most is the PC. If more devs worked like CDproject or what Dice is currently doing things would be good.

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bumnut5445d ago

PC gamers don't care about games been exclusive, its just annoying when the PC version of a game gets gimped because of console limitations.

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aquamala5445d ago

Pc gamers didn't lose anything, I think it's great 360 owners get to play the game, not everyone has a gaming pc.

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evrfighter5445d ago

"PC gamers don't care about games been exclusive, its just annoying when the PC version of a game gets gimped because of console limitations."

1000X this.

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ChrisW5445d ago

Bumnut,

Well said!

Ravenor5445d ago

The "exclusive" argument and feeling of loss attached to losing an exclusive on a platform is only felt and used by idiots who pledge allegiance to a box under their tv's.

Great more people get to play Witcher 2 and CD Project gets more money. I love that. Most people who love quality games, would also agree that this is nothing but good news. Witcher 2 and it's gameplay can fit nicely on a 360 and PS3.

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Christopher5445d ago (Edited 5445d ago )

1. Link to article in your browser
2. Hit Ctrl+F to open search function
3. Enter in "better" into search field and hit enter
4. Look for where the developer actually said this.

Extremely flamebait title is extremely flamebait title.

Edit: And don't give me this whole "it's single quotes" BS. You are explicitly saying as such in your title for hits, nothing else. Talk about shoddy journalism.

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ChrisW5445d ago

Cgoodno,

10 Bubbles? Have you ever used all of those them on a single thread before? Seems kinda ridiculous to have so many...

snipes1015445d ago

Well medium settings is good enough for me. I don't need the shiniest graphics around to have fun.

SLLCKGT5445d ago

Even if this game sells 100,000 copies on PS3, thats 6 million dollars before breaking it up. Since the game is complete and all they would have to do is port it, I don't see why it won't come onto the PS3 later on.

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KillerPwned5445d ago

I have heard tho when it comes to development for the PS3 Sony does a lot to help a developer make a game for the PS3. As for the other companies (MS and Nintendo) I bet they do the same thing to.

showtimefolks5445d ago

and hopefully after the xbox360 port is done q1 2012 will see a ps3 release.

its a great game made by a very under rated studio so the more people get to play it the better for them

Chucky20035445d ago (Edited 5445d ago )

They will do it eventually,actually that guy who appears in mostly every video about the game,i think is the co founder of CD Projekt in an interview that i read he said he likes the PS3 a lot,so my bet is that it will come,not this year,but they will make it

OpenGL5444d ago

Wow, have we really gotten to the point where we have to worry about attack when saying we'd like the ability to play a game on a platform we own?

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Emilio_Estevez5445d ago

PC patch?

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Biglet5445d ago

Yeah - that was interesting: "any critical improvements made for the 360 will also be provided back to the PC community in some form or another."

Cd Projekt learns from PC version, makes TW2 360 version better, then patches Pc version to make it EVEN better :)

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Convas5445d ago

No where in that interview did CDProjektRed say that Witcher 2 was better on 360.

Oi. Do you damn jobs, and report the actual story. They said that they are enjoying the challenge of working The Witcher 2 on the Xbox 360, and feel confident that they can deliver a good looking game graphically.

Substance1015445d ago

Lol they mention it looks like medium settings on PC, which again they may be saying to make the console fans happy, developers usually do this. Later on the game may be Sub hd running at low settings.

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Convas5445d ago

I've seen the game running on 360. Didn't look sub-HD to me. CDPR is using real talk here son, you may want to look up what that means.

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Biglet5445d ago

Single quotation marks are used for the heading - which the literate would know to mean a paraphrasing, not a direct quote.

jakethesnake5445d ago

That isn't a real grammar rule.

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fullymoated5445d ago

You guys are so defensive. I think the author meant better in a sense that they are fixing some of the design and balancing issues that the PC community brought to their attention. Some of these comments act as if the title was "Witcher 2 Graphically Better on 360"

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Nate-Dog5445d ago

Journalism these days isn't about what it was always supposed to be about, telling the truth. It's just about sensationalist titles and looking for attention anyway you can get it.

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slavish35445d ago

CAN'T WAIT 2011 IS A GREAT GAMING YEAR

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Lord_Sloth5445d ago

I suppose, as long as you like FPS titles there's lots of options.

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femshep5445d ago

what are you talking about there is just as many not shooters coming out as well

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Lord_Sloth5445d ago

Perhaps but it's easy to see that shooters have been saturating the market like crazy. It's very annoying.

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BeastlyRig5445d ago (Edited 5445d ago )

"Witcher 2 ‘Better On 360"
" We feel we can deliver a game on Xbox 360 that is comparable to at least the default medium settings on PC"

If they mean gameplay wise great!

bozebo5445d ago (Edited 5445d ago )

this ^

Interesting.

But anyway, graphics aren't important - the game itself is pure boss.

Also, I played it as low as it could possibly go on my laptop (ATI 5650 1GB + i3 2.4GHz) and it looked better than most console games. So unless they are lying, it will be one of the best looking console games - and certainly the best one with that type of environment (ie, not another corridor shooter...).

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Inside_out5445d ago (Edited 5445d ago )

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What does that mean??? Is it medium settings on a dual core, middle of the pack PC or is it medium settings on a 12 core, 3 gtx 580's like the Epic Samaritan tech demo???

The game sounds great and with them working on the reported issues, it seem the console gamers ( I'm sure PS3 is coming in early 2012 ) are going to get the definitive version.

With Skyrim launching this year... ( http://youtu.be/ztopdt6fY-U ) the pressure is on because that game looks fantastic and all the footage
released so far has been on 360.

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Motorola5445d ago

I think it means. All settings put to medium basically. If that wasn't clear. Putting it on a 3 way SLI GTX 580 set up. Putting all settings on medium, then locking the FPS to 30. I think

bozebo5445d ago

It will probably look excellent apart from the texture quality and screen res. TW2 had some fairly fancy shaders, they should all work great on the 360 without making it suffer much.

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kramun5445d ago

What would it matter what pc it was running on? Medium settings is medium settings.

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pennywhyz5445d ago

xbox 720 wont look like pc version and i'm not joking

Godmars2905445d ago

No boobies.

Or rather you know the sex scenes will be cut/edited.

Lord_Sloth5445d ago

This is not relevant.

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bozebo5445d ago

Witcher 2 had flaws? The bugs... yes. Nothing else was flawed whatsoever.

Anyway.

I would expect the 360 version to have some very impressive shaders and lighting, it's GPU is fairly powerful. But the texture resolution will be extremely low compared to even low-end PC settings (video memory limitation).

I played it with a controller on PC, and it worked extremely well (actually like they had designed it for the controller...).

One problem with the 360 version though is that you can't play it in Polish - most of the characters sound far better in Polish - but Geralt sounds ace in the English VO anyway, and he is the most important badass in the game :P

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ATiElite5445d ago

I'm very positive The Witcher 2 360 will be a great game. CD Projekt Red are great Devs.

When you make a game for the PC first then port down.....everybody wins.

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Haseo1065445d ago

How much did Microsoft pay them to praise Xbox360?

OC_MurphysLaw5445d ago

how much do you get paid to troll?

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BeAGamer5445d ago

nothing obviously

Agent_S5445d ago

Simply can't wait for this. Fairly excited for my introduction to CD Projekt Red, I want to see what they got. If this goes smoothly I hope they keep an open relationship with Microsoft.

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Frak5445d ago

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Ninjamonkey825445d ago

ever heard of marketing ploys?

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OC_MurphysLaw5445d ago

I am very curious to see how the 360 version comes out. I have a PC that could run it on med settings but frankly I have no desire to game on my PC. I really like the ease of experience on the console...but thats a different conversation. I hope they do manage to give a medium setting version of Witcher 2 for the 360. I think that would be a fantastic game to add to the list for this holiday.

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buckley5445d ago (Edited 5445d ago )

It is a nice opportunity for the dev to be putting out the second version of a game with a little time to make adjustments.

Even so, I've read reviews for the PC version that suggested that the control and interface felt better with a controller. So it should feel right at home on Xbox 360.

BUT as for the article, should be reported. The title quotes something that the developer never said.

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kevnb5444d ago

It feels better on whatever you are more used too, mouse and keyboard worked best for me.

-IronMan-5445d ago

360 version graphically is on medium. No way its better then PC. lol

Btw i dont think its that great of a game imho. Mediocre at best.

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Inzo5445d ago

Just finished TW2 and it is good but not in the same league as Demon's soul so for all PS3 owners get DS rather.

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bozebo5445d ago

Apart from the textures, because they physically cannot fit in RAM (even at medium).

qwertyz5445d ago

i just hope microsoft doesn't seduce them into making kinect games. that would be quite gay

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Drake_Seraphim5445d ago

This is a great game, I own it on PC and in ulta setting it's one of the most beautiful games I've seen.

andibandit5445d ago

Imagine if they could port it to PS3 and use all 7 SPU's, it would blow everything else away.

Jazz41085445d ago

You my friend will buy anything sony sells you if you truly believe that. Pcs are always going to outshine the current consoles as they are limited with ram and 5 year old specs. I know a lot of people think the cell is still relevent and it is but it needs to be updated to current specs and it will keep up with with almost all pcs and the 360 is in the same boat as there are graphic cards and gpus out now that will run circles around the cell and the 360s current gpu. I'm hoping next gen doesn't wait to much longer but I'm still happy with uncharted 3 and gears 3 as they still are both a blast to play but to think the ps3 and 360 have all this untapped power left is just plain silly. I know you had mentioned the ps3 as blowing away all pc versions and 360 versions of the witcher 2 but I really hope you were just being a fanboy and you really are not that naive.

jetlian5445d ago

like we have a winner. Thats 3 great 360 games this holiday plus some possible kinect games

sjaakiejj5445d ago

These types of games I'd much rather play on a PC then a console.